BlogEngine.NET : A powerful, full featured, free Blog and CMS built with ASP.NET
BlogEngine.NET is powerful, full featured Blog and (Content management System)CMS built with ASP.NET, that is open source and completely free!
RSS feeds are automatically created from your posts and pages. Feed Aggregators are automatically Pinged when you update your content.
BlogEngine.NET is to easy to use, from an end user as well as a developer or theme designer’s perspective.
Blogengine.NET uses very minimal server resources.
The default installation of BlogEngine.NET uses XML files to store all of a site's data, posts, pages etc. It can also store it's data in most standard databases. Including SQL Server, MySql, SQLite, VistaDB, etc.
BlogEngine.NET comes with a number of easy to customize themes, that can be changed with the click of a button. There are also many(more than 100) free themes available for Blogengine,NET or your can easily create your own. It requires only basic knowledge of ASP.NET and HTML to create a theme.
BlogEngine.NET also has a number of free extensions and widgets that can be added to your website as well. Including:
- Poll Widget - Add polls to your blog
- Twitter Feed - Widget to display a list of user's tweets
- Twitter Search - Widget to displays the results of a search as list of tweets
- FlickrBar - Flickr photo stream, will query Flickr photo service and show the results as a list of pictures.
- Wikipedia Plugin - Allows the creation of links to terms in Wikipedia
- QuickLinks - Automatically creates hyperlinks from keywords
- Top Commenters Extension - Shows who the top commenters are on your blog
- Click Tracker - Track clicks to external websites from your blog
- Simple Counter Extension - Counts number of downloads
- Another File Download Tracker
Some more features of BlogEngine.NET
- BlogEngine.NET has multiple author, editor and admin support
- Auto Pingbacks and trackbacks
- Comment moderation
- Ability to create and edit pages
- Extended search capabilities
- Tag cloud
- Auto updating RSS Feeds.
The only requirements to use Blogengine.NET are a web server that support ASP.NET 2.0(just about any Windows server) and write permissions on the App_Data folder.
Please contact us to get a custom install of BlogEngine.NET on your server or to learn more.