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14. October 2007 Team BlogEngine.NET 1.2 38 comments

Since the release of version 1.2 two weeks ago, the BlogEngine.NET team have taken a small break. The weeks up to the release were a little chaotic so a break was needed, but now we are ready to move forward again.

We’ll start to work on the roadmap and the feature set and then we start architecting and designing. It’s going to take some time because the 1.3 version will have a major feature set compared to previous versions and we want to get it 100% right.

All the features will be added to the roadmap continuously as we specify them individually. The roadmap is not finished yet so there is no estimated date for the release. It will come as we move closer to a fully specified feature set.

In the meanwhile, please tell us what features you would like to see in the 1.3 release that isn’t already on the roadmap. All suggestions will be taken seriously.


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  • Martell

    10/15/2007 6:49:01 AM |

    This is a test.

  • ronny

    10/15/2007 9:35:19 AM |

    a photo gallery would be a fantastic feature

  • rtur

    10/15/2007 3:33:38 PM |

    It would be great to have an extensions tab in the admin section where you can turn them on/off and change settings (if extension has any).

  • Justin Etheredge

    10/15/2007 8:03:44 PM |

    1) A footer section for syndication feeds. This way people could insert a block into the bottom of an rss feed for ads, or whatever static content they might want.
    2) Askimet Support

  • ct

    10/16/2007 8:00:44 AM |

    need multi-blogger

  • ct

    10/16/2007 8:05:35 AM |

    I think if it has the mulit-blog feature in the v1.3, then it can be used in a sns site, I now is developing a sns site and is looking for a good and strong dot net blog system.

  • Team

    10/16/2007 9:08:24 AM |

    @Justin, why do you want Akismet support? Do you get spam on your BE installation?

  • Dominick

    10/16/2007 3:32:02 PM |

    My biggest issue is with the xml files. I would love if there was an option to go completely SQL. I'm on a clustered environment. I have issues because it could take up to 10 minutes or more for the files to sync up.

  • markus941

    10/16/2007 11:02:06 PM |

    Here's my requests:

    - ability to add custom <title></title> tag to page/post
    - slugs for pages as well as posts
    - nofollow on the comment's author website link (not just in the comment itself)
    - page and category hierarchy

    Looks like 1.2 has a lot of other stuff covered. Can't wait.

  • Miron

    10/17/2007 12:42:42 AM |

    Thanks for the 1.2 release.
    Its perfect. Try to leave it light and simple as it now,
    and don't make it a 'monster' .

  • mrbowling

    10/17/2007 3:11:37 AM |

    i would love to see a page|subpage and category|subcategory hierarchy that would be great.

  • Paul

    10/17/2007 10:23:03 AM |

    My biggest usability issue is with the themes (not all, but several themes exhibit this problem) - when you do a blog posting with just one or two lines of text and add an image with align=right or align=left which is considerably larger in height than the text, the image 'breaks out' of the boundary lines (div?) of that post and runs into the rest of the UI. I have to add several blank lines of text to equal the height of the image in order to prevent this - and go back and edit a few times so I get the spacing just right. It's a real pain. Cogitation gets it right, but Standard and most others get it wrong.

    Seems like a pretty basic theme fix which should be out of band with 1.3 work? Surely can update skins without major release? Smile

  • Justin Etheredge

    10/18/2007 1:39:30 PM |

    @Team

    No, I don't get a lot of comment spam on my site (I just started it), but I always hear about other bloggers having huge problems with it. Is there any mechanisms in BE.net that are there to thwart comment spam? I didn't see any captcha (which I would rather not use) or anything.

  • Justin Etheredge

    10/18/2007 4:08:05 PM |

    One other thing that would be cool is to not use the username as the author of posts. A user should have an alias which displays there (or at least have the option of having an alias.) For example, if my username is jetheredge then I should be allowed to have "Justin Etheredge" as my alias so that my blog posts show up as this. Instead I have to have Justin_Etheredge as my username since users cannot have spaces in them

  • James Skemp

    10/19/2007 3:29:19 AM |

    @Justin:

    Justin, Akismet is not necessary with BE.NET. The solution in place effectively means zero-automated spam (although plenty of people come knocking, at least on my site).

    There's a number of posts on Mads' blog about spam and how BE.NET fights it - http://blog.madskristensen.dk/search.aspx?q=spam - but he may post a quick-and-dirty version here in response as well.

    I don't understand it all, but I know it works.

    There's a downside, with the Application log filling up rather quickly with these, but there's always filters or log size limits.

    ~James

  • Justin Etheredge

    10/19/2007 4:38:29 PM |

    @James

    Thanks, I'll definitely dig into the code and see how it works. It is good to see that BE.net has some systems in place for this.

  • Talal Alsubaie

    10/20/2007 8:20:24 AM |

    - An AJAX photo gallery will be great.

  • Talal Alsubaie

    10/20/2007 12:57:35 PM |

    - An AJAX photo gallery will be great.
    - Adding CAPTCHA to commints posting.

  • jesus

    10/20/2007 4:48:54 PM |

    bueno mi sugerencia es que paso con el idioma español en el bogengine.net 1.2(no esta istalada, porque), ya q en la version 1.1 si estaba, le agredeceria por que lo quitaron o que paso ya q aumentaron mas lenguajes o idiomas y sin embargo quitaron el idioma español, por favor diganos ue pasoo.

  • Ed

    10/20/2007 5:21:09 PM |

    Pagination of long posts would be an excellent feature.  Allow a user to enter a tag in the article where they want the page break (with a button in the editor to facilitate this).

  • mrbowling

    10/22/2007 4:17:27 AM |

    Ed 1.2 already supports this with the more tag, whenever you type more it will create the page break with the link.

    also yes a photo gallery would be great Smile

  • joshua

    10/22/2007 10:51:03 PM |

    A reset button for referrers or at least a better systematic approach for categorizing.

    The problem is if I click on "Monday" in the referrers, it still shows the top referrers for EVERY monday.  The referrers aren't just for today only. I have daily updated material so i would like to know the different referres every day.

    thanks.

  • wouter keus

    10/23/2007 11:28:01 AM |

    Hy,

    Love the BlogEngine but I would like suggest two more adjustment possible for the roadmap:

    * fileadministrator to delete uploaded images and files
    * working editor to insert embeded media without the callback-error
    (www.codeplex.com/.../View.aspx?ThreadId=13703) Hope to find a sollution soon.

    Rgds,

  • hellohzq

    10/23/2007 11:42:48 AM |

    yes ! hope to next ver

  • Niall

    10/23/2007 2:45:57 PM |

    Any idea of when the next release will be? Excellent blog application may I say.

  • Scott

    10/24/2007 12:23:57 AM |

    Great blog. Finally something to hopefully be something like WordPress for .net in the next few releases.  

    Couple of suggestions:  
    1) Multi-blogger (as other(s) have already suggested
    2) Concentrate on the blog alone and don't make it a mess like CommunityServer.

    Make it the best blog with .net community and thanks!

  • joshua

    10/26/2007 5:08:46 AM |

    Big SEO request (and, honestly, slight aggravation),

    The main blog index page is not very conducive to SEO.  You have two fields in setup.  First field is title, second is description.  The description should NOT be appended to the title.  If I want it appended to the title, then I'll add it myself in the title field.  Further, I do not want my "Pages" in the keywords.  I want to add my own custom keywords for the main page. The only other option would be for me to re-create the home page as a separate page and add custom keywords and description, but that's pain. (Please note, that the posts pages are fine. I'm only talking about the front page.) Now, when you look up my site in google, the description is messed up.  And, unfortunately, there's no way to change it until the next release. I can't disable your description and keyword mechanism either. It would be great to at least be able to put my own description and keywords in the custom header, but google treats that as "overlooading" and throws both references of the META out.

    From an SEM, I must say while the project as a whole it a great piece of work, the SEO, however, hasn't been thought through enough.

    Please fix.

  • joshua

    10/26/2007 7:21:37 AM |

    If anyone is interested, I hacked the code and added three lines to the PostList.ascx.cs file for my previous post (see comment just above) to work.

    smiley {at} starveme {dot} com

  • TurkishExPortal

    10/26/2007 3:10:48 PM |

    hello all,

    could you give any exact date for new release ? 1.3 should support MySQL interface Smile

  • Abdulla Yasir

    10/26/2007 6:58:59 PM |

    An AJAX photo gallery will be great, BUT photo downloading and saving DISABLED even through on context menu.

  • Abdulla Yasir

    10/27/2007 2:32:12 AM |

    Gentlemen,
    I know that asp.net allows resizing pictures for display only whislt also reducing file size, without actually affecting the image itself. Allowing such a function of slicing the picture to a desired size, within blog entries, will allow quick download.

    I have seen this function used in litebox photo galleries. My request is to allow resizing withing a blog entries.

  • Bill Miller

    10/27/2007 4:34:47 PM |

    Great work so far!  This is by far the best open source asp.net blog I've used.  I've been through most of the internals and you guys have made it very easy to customize.

    I do have a couple feature suggestions...

    1. Surveys - Maybe a candidate for a plug-in once the framework is in place?

    2. Something similar to the "Share This" Word Press plugin.  This would allow a single link to be placed in the post which could either expand using JS or redirect to a seperate page showing a full list of social bookmarking sites and a form to email the post.  The list of bookmarking sites should be configurable through the admin settings.  With the plethora of sites out there today it makes the post too cluttered to list more than a few.  I've customized (hacked) my installation of BE to do this but I'd rather not have to mess with the core code each time a new version is released.

    I'd be happy to help in any way.

  • Josh Stodola

    10/29/2007 1:14:24 AM |

    I agree with Miron.  Take all suggestions with a grain of salt.  You dont want to get to crazy; stick with your KISS instincts.

    Best regards...

  • Techbray

    10/29/2007 1:19:28 PM |

    That's cool.

  • Andrew Eick

    10/30/2007 9:37:22 PM |

    1) ability to set up perm-redirects (Http: 301).  My problem is I am migrating from another blog service, but need to keep my permalinks from my old blog intact...

    2) Email the 'daily activity reports'  DasBlog emails the report to me everynight, and it is kind of fun to see the activity.  Having it "just appear" in my inbox is kind of fun...

  • Team

    11/5/2007 7:00:46 PM |

    I'll add this to the suggestions list on CodePlex, but currently there are two issues with how the commenting system prevents users from impersonating an author:

    (a) I was able to use the name "Team" by simply adding a space to the end. There should be a trim called on the validation method that checks for equality of the two strings (I'm not sure if the post will be highlighted as an author post or not, we'll see in a second).
    (b) The validation method only checks against the author of the post being commented on. In a multi-author environment one could still impersonate another author on the system (though the author highlighting only appears for the author of the current post, iirc).

  • Young

    11/18/2007 1:15:04 AM |

    I wish not to require email when user attempts to write for comment. I can tell that users don't want to provide their email address so that they can leave comment as a anonymous user.

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