BlogEngine Forums

By lee on Sep 18 2008 | 7 Comments

The awesome ASP.NET blogging platform BlogEngine.NET has fascinated me for a while now - I learnt so much just by looking through the solution and seeing how well it had been built.  Since then I am convinced with a little 'community' love, BlogEngine.NET could also be used a CMS just like WordPress made the transition and you see a lot of sites using it as a CMS and Blog.

I went to Codeplex to try and get involved in the 'forum' and was a little disappointed with the size and amount of people giving advice and help... So I had an idea! Why not start the first (Unofficial) BlogEngine community and try to get people involved in creating more extensions, Themes and helping others learn about the software and how they in time could also contribute.

Thus launched www.blogengineforum.net

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I have tried to create a structure that I think will work, and over the next few months while people find it (And hopefully signup and contribute) will gather all the themes, extensions and other 'stuff' I can find to promote the software

I have already started to try and collate a list of all the BlogEngine Themes I can find - And intend to go back one by one and add screenshots, but work is a calling and I need to get this next project finished to pay the bills then I can spend some more time trying to make this 'new' community work.

So if anyone reads this and wants to really push BlogEngine.NET - Please get involved and help make the forums a great resource for everyone.

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Stephen Kinsey on 9/18/2008 6:32 PM Great idea Lee,

I've just started using blogengine.net myself on one of my sites as I love wordpress but I really needed a windows platform blog. I'll be watching the forum closely to see what tips I can get from it as I plan to use blogengine.net on a few more sites soon.
lee on 9/18/2008 6:41 PM Hi Stephen... Thanks for the comments, please feel free to sign up and help me turn it into a community Smile   I'm new to BlogEngine myself, so am hoping the more people join the more I'll learn myself
Jarrett on 9/19/2008 3:33 PM BlogEngine is not designed to be a CMS and would require a complete refactor.  There is some nice code in BlogEngine.NET but it has a lot of code that would not pass a code review.  I encourage you take a look at the code of BlogSvc.net, see http://codeplex.com/blogsvc
lee on 9/19/2008 3:58 PM Nope sorry completely disagree, wordpress was not designed to be a CMS yet there are 100,000's of people using it like one.

BlogEngine.NET could easily be a CMS - It just needs the right extensions built.  
Jarrett on 9/19/2008 7:26 PM I would warn against building extensions on top of something with a fragile architecture. Of coarse, this is my opinion.
Anthony Grace on 9/20/2008 3:40 AM Hi Lee,

Great when someone takes the bull by the horns, count me in!

Anthony Smile
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Wayne on 10/8/2008 12:03 AM I'm going to completely disagree with Jarrett.  I've had a chance to really dig into BlogEngine for the past year, and I believe it can be used as a CMS just fine, and without any concern of it being a fragile architecture, which it isn't.

Jarrett is obviously trying to promote his own baby and draw your users away from you and BlogEngine.  Pathetically.