At first, you need to build your blog with installing our module called SunBlog in one DNN page. Then you enter the dashboard of blogging module, quickly add a new entry [Markdown Support with DNN Blog Posts] and back to the entry management interface as follows:

Next you have to click the second icon as we marked red above and finally enter Markdown online editor. Now you can get start write your post content in details. Markdown allows you to keep your fingers firmly planted on the keyboard as you apply formatting on the fly. In short: You never have to stop typing or think about anything else in order to apply your styles.

Just enjoy blogging!

Other resources below about how to get started with Markdown with its format and Syntax Guide:

Writing with Markdown for Better Content & HTML: Why & How To

The Ultimate Guide to Markdown

As you know,  Window Live Writer is like Word for your blog. However, Windows 10 does not support Window Live Writer any more and you can not install WLW for blog writing/content. Luckly, the Open Live Writer is another alternative writer for blogging. Open Live Writer makes it easy to write, preview, and post to your blog.

What is Open Live Writer?

Open Live Writer is like Word for your blog. Open Live Writer is a powerful, lightweight blog editor that allows you to create blog posts, add photos and videos then publish to your website. You can also compose blogs posts offline and then publish on your return. Open Live Writer works with many popular blog service providers such as WordPress, Blogger, TypePad, Moveable Type, DasBlog and many more.

How to use Open Live Writer?

All the same like old Window LIve Writer. You can just refer the following tutorials below:

• How to write your post of SunBlog with Window Live Writer?
• Fixed Window Live Writer Issue with SunBlogNuke
• Extended Entries Support for SunBlogNuke

DNN9 finally released

As the article DNN 9 and the Future of the DNN Platform mentioned, Few goals that DNN offical team wanted to accomplish for this platform:

• Reconstruct DNN to minimize our reliance on Web Forms architecture
• Provide developers the freedom to use a variety of frameworks
• Protect customers’ existing investments in DNN
• Provide a fully supported upgrade path for everyone

DNN 9 represents the next step on our journey towards creating a more modern platform and further minimizing our use of Web Forms. Firstly the pre-released DNN9 with a brand new administrative experience that replaces the dated Web Forms based admin and host modules that we use today. Yes，this superstar is called "the Persona Bar".

Plus there are some interesting points discussed in the comment section, for example:

• Dnn is losing the needle of the compass and is becoming another type of wordpress but not focus on DNN philosophy
• Why DNN lost more and more developers these years? due to the addition of MVC and SPA support or because they waited too long to support alternative frameworks.
• There is ZERO advantage of using MVC in DNN. Plese skip crippled MVC in DNN and just embrace the development in WebForms or the newer SPA

Some notes for any dnn guys want to try DNN9:

• Telerik won't be going away completely in DNN 9. We hope to have that project finished for 9.1 or 9.2. Redoing the Admin Experience has been a big job and we were not able to completely redo the remaining modules that still use Telerik.
• The host features did not go away at all. They have been incorporated and collapsed into the other administrative pages. see https://1drv.ms/i/s!AmCAjuMs3hO9j7Y6I_LdrZ5EVDMnzA These settings only show up for host users.

Other resources links:

DNN 9 Appears to Be a Foundational Step Forward for the Future of DNN

DNN Blog Module SunBlogNuke compatible well with DNN9

Our DNN blog module SunBlogNuke straight out of the box comes ready to embrace any changes and always compatible well with the latest DNN core package DNN9. Not only we will apply any handy tools, such as SPA framework and Bootstrap UI framework, with our products, but also we assure that SunBlogNuke is still the best publishing tool with News, Magazine & Articles, for example Markdown support with better writing experience and the core Html/Text module is on road of integration.

And another good news for any DNN guys interested in our modules, is that we will include all the separate modules into the one-collection for SunBlogNuke, for example:

• GalleryPlus module - Ultra DNN Media Gallery Module with Image, Video & Slider
• CommentsPlus module - Universal comments/voting module for DNN
• Twitter feed module - highlight solution to display your most recent Twitter updates
• ContentSliderPlus module

And the important point is that they will be all free for DNN Community. Please have a try on them later and if you are satisfied with those widgets, feel free to get us a coffee below :)

BUY ME A Coffee

What is Markdown

Markdown is a plain text formatting syntax for writers. It allows you to quickly write structured content for the web, and have it seamlessly converted to clean, structured HTML.

Back in 2004, Apple pundit John Gruber came up with the idea after becoming frustrated by writing long, laborious HTML tags to properly format his content. He devised a simple writing system which would make web based documents both easier to write, and easier to read in their raw state.

Here’s a quick example of Markdown in action:

The *quick* brown fox, jumped **over** the lazy [dog](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog). 

becomes

The quick brown fox, jumped over the lazy dog.

With just a couple of extra characters, Markdown makes rich document formatting quick and beautiful.

Why Markdown integrated with DNN

Even if DNN known as best CMS in .net platform, plus some excellent WYSIWYG editors, such as CKEdior and RadEditor, it interrupts writing with some weird issues from time to time; WYSIWYG makes it easy to write poor HTML. So we try to find alternative instead of WYSIWYG Editor, a quicker, more efficient way to publish web texts.

Markdown mirrors HTML. When you write in Markdown you’re thinking about structure and meaning, not appearance. Quality control is easier in Markdown than WYSIWYG.

With best blogging module #SunBlogNuke, we will help you get started into the wonderful world of Markdown in DNN! Blogging your way and enjoy life. :)

Helpful links you may be interested in

Markdown Syntax

How to Write Faster, Better & Longer: The Ultimate Guide to Markdown

A guide to using Markdown to write blog posts

As Ryan Caldwell said in the comments of "Why Bloggers Need SEO":

SEO is to blogging like editing is to writing a book. You can’t write a good book without editing. You can’t write a good blog without SEO. Editing sharpens the focus of a book. SEO sharpens the focus of a blog. Editing happens both as a separate act and as an “in the process” act. SEO can be done both in the act of blogging (choosing a good headline), and separately (off-site linkage, etc.)

we share the same point and our DNN blog module [SunBlogNuke] also apply the exact principle.

SunBlogNuke, straight out of the box, comes ready to embrace search engines. Its features and functions guide a search engine through the posts, pages, and categories to help the search engine crawl your site and gather the information it needs to include your site within its database. SunBlogNuke comes with several built in search optimization tools. If you had ignored them, I would like to show you them as follows:

1. The ability to create apparently static URLs called permalinks.

   There exist a filed called [Post Slug] in SunBlogNuke. With it our blog platform will create apparently static URLs called permalinks with this post title. Please get the more information about Post Slug from the previous post 5 Killer Features will be Available on SunBlogNuke.

2. Place the title of the post in the page title tag.

   There are a number of things to keep in mind when it comes to titles. Google pays particular attention to titles - so make sure you get them right. Fortunately SunBlogNuke have automatically done it for you. Not only it places the title of the post in the page title tag, but also it includes a flexible option that postfix the page titles with blog name. For example, my post title is "Search Engine Optimization for DNN Blog Module” and our blog name "SunBlogNuke Team Blog", when you visit the post the page title will formatted as "Search Engine Optimization for DNN Blog Module - SunBlogNuke Team Blog". Yes, you can turn it off if you think that it will more SEO without the blog name. Indeed there is a point that if you’re just looking from an SEO perspective don’t include your blog name in the title tags of single posts. This dilutes your keywords. Of course if you’re looking more at branding including your blog’s name in the title tags might be worth doing. You can get more SEO tips about blog title from this post 10 Tips to Awesome, Eye-Jerking Post Titles.

3. Auto Generate Meta Description

   You should know that it is essential to include the META Description tag on all your web pages for better search engine indexing. But out dilemma is, how do we populate the “content” section of the META description dynamically based on what content we’re viewing? Simple — we use a combination of conditional tags and a custom loop to pull either the page title (if we’re on the homepage) or the description (if we’re in a single post). With that our blog platform will create such unique description tags for each post page. Usually, most bloggers don’t take advantage of the use of the “optional description” section of their Write Post panel. But if you want to exercise even more control over what gets displayed on the search engine results page(SERP) for content, then you need to be filling this section out. If it’s blank, your post description will just be the first 150 (that is the max length for Meta Description) characters in your post.

4. Meta keywords support

   The SunBlogNuke also support Meta keywords with a combination of page key words and all tags of each post. But recently Google Confirms Meta Keywords Tag Not used for Rankings, you just ignore it and let it there now.

Though SunBlogNuke comes with several built-in features for SEO, please keep in mind that “Content is King”. The quality of the posts you write is the single most important factor when it comes to Search Optimization on a Blog. Quality content that helps people will quite often draw a reader to want to share what they’ve written - of course they do this by passing on the link to your post and often they’ll do it in a way that helps your search rankings (on their own blog for example).

Additional resources about DNN SEO:

DNN SEO Quickstart Guide

DNN SEO Case Study Part 2

As you know, DNN8 with MVC and SAP released for a while and DNN9 is on road for next generation CMS. So this building v8 will focus on more attentions on integrating with DNN8 framework. More exciting things are lots of handy features implemented in this package, for example Markdown support for better writing experience. Hope win business together :)

Why not have a try? Get started now.

SunBlogNuke Version 8.0.3
Min DotNetNuke version required: v7.1.0

• ENH - totally compatible with DNN8.
• ENH - support feed for aggregating output contentslider widget.
• ENH - support markdown writing for blog content.
• ENH - Razor template support with $YOURTHEME/_Shared/@_xxx.cshtml.
• ENH - integrated with bootstrap FontAwesome style with removing old images and styles.
• ENH - support core themes to be copied for new theme building with more customizations.
• ENH - optimizations about tags combine action, including new jQuery auto-complete plugin.
• ENH - Gravatar can be hosted by alternative proxy service, such as http://gravatar.duoshuo.com/avatar .
• FIX - Disqus comment component not work due to settings not save.
• FIX - Tags with Chinese characters not work with TagCloud plugin in the tag view.
• FIX - Permalink not work in built-in search result.
• FIX - author displayed as "anonymous" issue if he/she deleted from blog user list.

As usual, the complete details for all of the changes can be found in the Release Notes.

1. If you are still using older versions, we recommended that you should upgrade this stable package.
2. If you are applying upgrade process, please BACK UP YOUR CHANGES BEFORE PROCEEDING and follow up the suggested upgrade path: v2.1->v5.2->v6.0+.

You can get it here. We hope that with this generation dnn blog module you can enjoy the blog writing and it will make your life better; plus if you have any good advice about our products, please feel free to leave a comment or contact us.

The SunBlogNuke Team

Lot of logs in Event Viewer related with "Scheduler Exception -Sequence contains more than one matching element". This occurs when there is a duplicate entry in the WebServers table.

Solution

To verify if this is the issue, go to Host > SQL and run the following SQL query:

SELECT ServerName FROM {databaseOwner}[{objectQualifier}WebServers]

If you see the same entry more than once, you need to run the following SQL query:

DELETE FROM {databaseOwner}[{objectQualifier}WebServers]

Once that has been completed, hover over Tools->Recycle Application Domain to make it work with re-indexing.

Referrence

Scheduler Issues in DNN 7.3.x

Scheduler exception after Upgrade to 7.3.0

DNN 7.3.1 SCHEDULER EXCEPTION

Well, let us get started to fight DNN Bugs again. This is the forth post we discussed about DNN bugs and share workarounds with you. The last posts as follows below:

1. Fighting DNN Bugs: All Handlers Not Work
2. Fighting DNN Bugs Ⅱ: Why Can't Remove Google Analytics
3. Fighting DNN Bugs Ⅲ: Why Non-Administration Users Logged Out

which you also are interested in reading.

Today we would like to share the bug is about spammer, mainly about spammer registrations/login attempts. When looking/monitoring Admin -> Event Viewer, there are a ton of event log recorded off type "Login failure" or "New user", then your website should have been hit by an old robot-script written specifically to target DNN website.

How to fix it

You should check out all the resources links in the end of this article or just follow up the steps for our website running DNN7.4:

1. Created a custom login page (for example signin)
2. Configure the site to use the custom login page.
3. Add a request filter to reject the default register URLs. Follow up the step 6 mentioned in the Guideline with the following configuration:

Server Variable : HTTP_URL

Operation : Regex

Match Value : (?<=\?)ctl=register|(?<!\?)/register |(?<=\?)ctl=login|(?<!\?)/login

Action : NotFound

Location : (empty)

Useful resources below:

Spammer registrations

Replacing Registration page with custom and blocking the default Register Page

iwebs-Register extension from InteractiveWebs