Move to WordPress

Posted on March 7, 2018March 7, 2018 by jrblack Leave a comment

I’ve had a personal blog since 2006. I started with a free account with WordPress, but soon after that registered a domain and wanted to host my own blog. As a developer in Microsoft technologies, I wanted to use something in .net and found BlogEngine.Net. Using BlogEngine.net was fun, maybe because it was free and […]... Read More

BlogEngine upgrade from 2.9 to 3.1

Posted on December 2, 2014March 2, 2018 by Jim 1 Comment

Though the version jump from 2.9 to 3.1 may not seem like to much of a jump, it did not go easy for me. It failed the first few times. I tried following the directions at dotNetBlogEngine.net, but that was unsuccessful… all my existing posts would not show. I finally found a comment to a […]... Read More

Comment / SPAM Moderation

Posted on March 17, 2010March 2, 2018 by jrblack 1 Comment

For me, the best recent feature in BlogEngine.NET v1.6 is what they labeled as Comment Moderation. THIS is a killer feature for even my simple blog that in 2009 only got 1,500+ hits in 2009, but yet still seems to be plagued with comment SPAM. With this comment moderation, you can moderate all comments, set […]... Read More

BlogEngine.NET Nested Comments

Posted on March 14, 2010March 2, 2018 by jrblack 10 Comments

Nested comments are quite cool and have been included in BlogEngine.NET for the past few releases, but I never got around to implementing them into my theme. I learned it was quite simple. Edit CommentView.ascx file and… add this code line somewhere at the bottom of the display of the comment, maybe near the <%= […]... Read More

BlogEngine.NET 1.6 upgrade

Posted on March 12, 2010March 2, 2018 by jrblack 17 Comments

BlogEngine.NET v1.6 has been out since Feb 1, so I figured it was about time I upgraded. I like to check the available documentation regarding upgrading and I got some conflicting ideas and methods. David suggested I download a copy of my blog, make edits, over-write files, delete folders and upload the blog when complete. […]... Read More

Extension Manager bug in BlogEngine 1.4.5

Posted on February 24, 2009 by 4 Comments

ecently I have been exploring and experimenting with BlogEngine.Net Extensions. These are great little add-ons that provide additional functionality that currently is not included in BlogEngine.net. In the past (with Picasa and LightBox extensions) I noticed when I added them to my blog and I refreshed a page, I would get the following error: […]... Read More

Studio Theme for BlogEngine.Net

Posted on February 13, 2009 by Leave a comment

tudio is the theme I stared with for this blog. I stumbled upon AskTheBoater.com and liked the design so much I decided to see if I could mimic it (with a few minor changes). I no longer use this theme, but my current theme is also based on the Studio theme. It is clean […]... Read More

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