Updater utility for BlogEngine 2.9

just released to the public, and planning to upgrade your blog, here is little handy utility you can use. Using it pretty simple, just follow these steps and you'll get your blog upgraded in no time. Well, at least I did - no guarantee it will work for everyone, of course.

Custom Fields

Usually blogs have well known structure, which is understandable; one of the core ideas behind blogs is ability to "talk" to each other using RSS, format that defines very strict set of entries like "post", "category" or "tag". Also common format helps to move data from one blog engine to the other making your data portable - big plus.

BlogEngine 2.8 Theme Structure

Looking for improvements to layout and theme structure in the next BlogEngine, I went through existing code analyzing how these things work now. Its not very straightforward, so I decided to put together a quick overview that might help someone maintaining and modifying blog built with BlogEngine.NET

Updater for BlogEngine 2.8

BlogEngine.NET 2.8 was just released to the public, and if you feel lazy going through the steps to upgrade, here is how to do it easier. Download little utility from the link in the end of this post, watch short video with example how it works and you should be able to upgrade without breaking a sweat.

Woopra Update

This real-time customer analytics service just released [public beta 8.0](http://www.woopra.com/blog/2013/03/22/woopra-version-8-0-beta-bespoke-analytics-built-for-your-business/) and I tested it with BlogEngine.NET to make sure they still work great together. If you a fan of statistics then you might like it a lot, this service provides functionality similar to [Google Analytics](http://www.google.com/analytics/) with a stress on real-time activity.

Jcarousel extension for BlogEngine

This new extension for BlogEngine will let you save images for multiple albums and display any album in carousel-like fashion in your posts and pages using jCarousel plugin for jQuery. It is light-weight and pretty easy to use. I reused code from NivoSlider as foundation, making few improvements and adding ability to create thumbnail images on the fly

BlogEngine.NET 2.7 (RC) is out - upgrade it the easy way

Beta (or RC) version of [BlogEngine.NET 2.7 has been released](http://www.dotnetblogengine.net/post/BlogEngineNET-27-Release-Candidate.aspx) this weekend with some cool new features like extension-less URLs and lots of small improvements and bug fixes. If you want to test drive it, head over to Codeplex site and download

How to use NivoSlider with BlogEngine

I have updated [NivoSlider extension](http://dnbegallery.org/cms/List/Extensions/NivoSlider) this weekend to support edit/re-upload functionality which can be helpful if you maintain large number of images and sometimes need to make changes. Below is a short screencast that demonstrates installing NivoSlider, adding it to the post and adding new image to the slider.

OpenID with ASP.NET Example

In the [previous post](http://rtur.net/blog/post/2012/05/23/OpenID-with-ASPNET-Made-Simple.aspx) we’ve got dead simple OpenID authentication working with ASP.NET WebForms application. Lets push it further and make more real world example you can actually use in your project. To make it less work, we will use Javascript

OpenID with ASP.NET Made Simple

Implementing OpenID can be challenging, because of large number of scenarios and parties it can be used for and by. So any decent implementation includes lots of stuff you don’t particularly care about and it is hard to parse information to find exactly what you need. To save you some reading time, here how it works with ASP.NET application in the nutshell.

BlogEngine 2.6 Updater

BlogEngine [2.6 release is out](http://dotnetblogengine.net/post/The-Next-Chapter-of-BlogEngineNET-Version-26.aspx) and you might want to upgrade your existing blog to take advantage of all the new features. You can read [instructions](http://blogengine.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Upgrading%20to%20BlogEngine.NET%202.6) how to manually upgrade your site or you can try updater utility I've been using lately to automate upgrades for my blog

Customizing Post Navigation

Post navigation in BlogEngine is a little hard to customize. By default it looks like picture below and that works fine with standard theme. Small problem is that those angle brackets and "|" in the middle not that easy to get rid of without some nasty CSS tricks because they baked into the core code that nobody likes to touch

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