An innovative open source blogging platform developed with ASP.NET
BlogEngine.NET Project
BlogEngine.NET is an open source .NET blogging project that was born out of desire for a better blog platform. A blog platform with less complexity, easy customization, and one that takes advantage of the latest .NET features.
BlogEngine.NET was designed using the current .NET framework and focused on simplicity, ease of extendibility, and innovative features. With BlogEngine.NET, we hope to create the natural blog of choice for all .NET developers world wide.
Why use BlogEngine.NET?
BlogEngine.NET is a full featured blogging platform that is a breeze to setup, customize, and use. A small download and easy to follow instructions get you up and running in minutes. Pick one of our elegant default themes or make your own theme. Extend the functionality by creating your own custom control or add some of the many built into the system.
If you are running BlogEngine.NET 2.0 or BlogEngine.NET 2.5, there's a couple of updates we have made after 2.5 was released to address some issues that may affect your blog. This update is not critical, however if you are maintaining your BlogEngine.NET 2.0 or 2.5 installation, we recommend you apply this update to your blog installation. To apply update, download the appropriate file belo... [More]* BlogEngine.NET Hosting – Get 3 Months Absolutely Free!
The next version of BlogEngine.NET, version 2.5 is here! Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release. The new version can be downloaded here. If you're upgrading from a previous version, here are the upgrade instructions. ASP.NET 4.0 BlogEngine.NET has been upgraded to ASP.NET 4.0. This has allowed us to take advantage of new .NET 4.0 features such as Razor templat... [More]* BlogEngine.NET Hosting – Get 3 Months Absolutely Free!
We're proud to make available a release candidate (RC) for BlogEngine.NET 2.5. There's some very exciting new features and changes in this release. The final release is not far behind -- most likely at the end of June. The BlogEngine.NET 2.5 Release Candidate can be downloaded here. If you will be testing the RC as an upgrade to existing BlogEngine.NET blog, here are upgrad... [More]* BlogEngine.NET Hosting – Get 3 Months Absolutely Free!
We’ve been working on gallery site for BlogEngine.NET extensions, themes and widgets and site is finally ready for BlogEngine community to share components in centralized location. Over the next few weeks we’ll be moving content from our “extensions” page to the gallery, converting it to BlogEngine 2.0 and uploading packages to repository. If you have extension, theme or wi... [More]* BlogEngine.NET Hosting – Get 3 Months Absolutely Free!
We're very pleased to announce the release of BlogEngine.NET 2.0. It can be downloaded here. We accomplished meeting most of our Roadmap goals. The most visible change is the redesign of the control panel. Many thanks to team member Janko Jovanovic for this much more modern control panel UI. There's now a Dashboard, and new pages to View all of your Posts and Pages, which ... [More]* BlogEngine.NET Hosting – Get 3 Months Absolutely Free!
Just several months after version 1.6 was released, we're happy to announce that a Release Candidate for BlogEngine.NET 2.0 is available. We accomplished meeting most of our Roadmap goals. The most visible change is the redesign of the control panel. Many thanks to team member Janko Jovanovic for this much more modern control panel UI. There's now a Dashboard, and new pages to V... [More]* BlogEngine.NET Hosting – Get 3 Months Absolutely Free!
We are pleased to announce Janko Jovanovic officially joining BlogEngine team as The Man behind our major UI 2.0 design effort. Many BlogEngine users know and love Janko’s blog and find there many useful tips and valuable resources. Janko has number of publications on UI usability and interaction design and his work with BlogEngine.NET will be continuation of this theme he is clearly so pass... [More]* BlogEngine.NET Hosting – Get 3 Months Absolutely Free!
We have reports from bloggers that there is new spam in town - pingback spam. Here is what you can do to stop it. 1. Disable Go to admin/settings/advanced and remove check mark in "enable pingbacks" and "enable trackbacks" opting to not receive them. 2. Patch Spammers used flaw in the white list logic that allowed any user who already posted number of comments on the blog to bypass validation ... [More]* BlogEngine.NET Hosting – Get 3 Months Absolutely Free!