Using Picasa pictures in BlogEngine.Net

Posted on February 4, 2009 by 13 Comments

I don’t use Picasa or Picasa Web as often as I used to, but I may start using it more often now. Recently I found an extension for BlogEngine.Net that enables you to retrieve and display a Picasa Album or Picasa SlideShow. Once configured, all you have to do is add a unique text string […]... Read More

Porting WordPress theme to BlogEngine

Posted on January 10, 2009 by Leave a comment

I have ported a WordPress theme or two before, but I stumbled upon this tutorial by RTUR.Net that include other details that I was not aware of. His post is in 2 parts. To read the post, go here and be sure to look for part 2 at the bottom under related posts. Part […]... Read More

Picasa SlideShow for BlogEngine

Posted on January 10, 2009 by 2 Comments

For a long time I have been a fan of Picasa… “Free is for Me”. And what a nice tool it is for free. Since then I have moved on to more professional photo editing tools like Adobe LightRoom and PhotoShop. But Picasa still has this nice online storage / sharing thing and now we […]... Read More

BlogEngine.Net – How to change your backend

Posted on January 10, 2009 by Leave a comment

Al Nyveldt recently posted an article (and referred to software) to help you change the backend (data backend) for BlogEngine.Net. I currently have my blogs using XML data, so this will come in hand when I am ready or need to change the backend to SQL Server. Thanks Al. Full Story here.... Read More

BlogEngine.Net – Using different table prefixes in your database

Posted on January 9, 2009 by Leave a comment

Al Nyveldt recently posted an article on what you need to do to host multiple BlogEngine.Net blogs in the same database (for what ever the reason may be). I will need this in the future and am great full he shared it. To read about it, click here.... Read More

Configuring Live Writer

Posted on January 6, 2009 by Leave a comment

Launch Live Writer. From the menu, choose Weblog, then Add Weblog Account… Choose “Another weblog service” Fill in the weblog account information. Live Writer will connect to the blog and download details to your PC. Edit the Weblog Name if you wish and click Finish. Now you can create […]... Read More

Block SPAM in comments

Posted on November 21, 2008 by 5 Comments

I got a an email from my other abandoned Word Press blog regarding a SPAM comment. I immediately thought of my new blog with BlogEngine.NET and wondered what features or extensions it has to handle or block SPAM. Sure enough, someone has already written an extension incorporating Akismet, the same comment spam protection used by […]... Read More

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