Introduction

DNNGo xBlog is a powerful blog module for DNN (DotNetNuke). Beyond the article management found in common blog modules, it also provides theme skin management, template editing, Ping services and other distinctive features.

xBlog ships with multiple responsive skins, dozens of display effects and thousands of configuration options — every visual detail is customizable, helping you effortlessly build a distinctive blog site.

Support

• Official site: www.dnngo.net
• Support email: [email protected]
• Module source code: gitee.com/dnngo/DNN-xBlog

Features

Content Management

• Easily add article content
• Set article status — Published or Draft
• Mark posts as Featured
• Pin posts to the top of article lists
• Schedule articles to become visible at a specified date and time
• Set article authors
• Assign multiple categories to articles
• Set access permissions per article
• Set a Featured Image for articles, shown in article lists and used by the DashBoard module
• Add multiple Gallery Images per article, shown on the article detail page
• Add downloadable attachments to articles
• Set link types for articles — link to a DNN page, an external URL or an attachment
• Restrict article details to logged-in users

Export & Import

• Export module data for use on other pages or sites
• Import and export BlogML format
• Import Wordpress site data
• Import NewsArticle Module XML data sources

Import Feeds

• Import RSS feeds from external sources and display them as articles on your site
• The DNN scheduler checks and loads articles automatically at intervals
• Customize the style of your RSS output

Comment System

• Hold comments for administrator approval before publishing
• Reply to comments
• Email notifications for comments
• Enable reCAPTCHA verification to prevent spam comments

Newsletter

• Visitors can subscribe to receive emails about the latest articles
• Manually send one or more articles to subscribers
• Add DNN roles as subscribers
• Add subscribers in bulk
• Customize email templates

Themes & Templates

• Multiple built-in responsive skins (Classic, Timeline, Multi-author, Small and more)
• Extremely rich settings to make your pages unique
• Customize skins with basic HTML and CSS knowledge

SEO Optimized

• Each article has its own title, meta description and keywords
• Friendly URLs let you customize the URL of every article
• Automatically generate a URL Sitemap containing all published posts

Search

• Searchable by the DNN built-in search engine
• xBlog's built-in search covers Title, Summary, Content Text and Tags

Multiple Author Support

• Set any security role or user as an author
• Administrators can review articles submitted by authors
• Send review reminder emails to module administrators
• Set security roles as module administrators
• Use Gravatar as author avatars

Other Features

• Localize all static texts into your native language
• Built-in social sharing buttons supporting 13 sharing services including Facebook, X and Linkedin
• Related articles can be shown at the end of articles
• Related articles are matched automatically based on tags
• Multiple downloadable attachments per article
• Rating feature lets users vote for their favorite articles
• DNN Journal is automatically updated when an article is published or updated