I’ve been using BlogEngine.Net 1.4.0 since last week. It wasn’t easy to migrate and keep the blog stable. To keep things working I made 3 updates (1.4.06, 1.4.0.8 and 1.4.0.12) in one week.
Finally on Friday I decided to update my theme to make use of widgets. This was my I first draw back … my blog uses two sidebars and the BlogEngine.NET only suport ONE WidgetZone on the page.
I took almost the complete weekend to override this limitation and create an improved version of the widget framework that supports multiple WidgetZones.
I still have some issues to solve, such as the Drag’n’Drop of widgets, but all the rest is completely working and I currently using it on this blog. More on this will came soon.
After solve the WidgetZone issue I found out that the available widgets weren’t enough to accomplished my needs, so, I decide to improve the LinkList widget.
I needed to:
- add support for rendering the class attribute to the anchor Html elements (see the sidebar Meta section)
- add support for rendering an HyperLink (see the sidebar My Profiles section)
I can only say that it was really simple to create or extend an widget.
I submitted this changes on LinkList widget as a patch on BlogEngine.Net (ID 1504), and perhaps Mads adds them in some future release.
Meanwhile you can get the code here
http://www.richersblog.com
This blog is nice richersblog
Nice widget I would like to see a more post specific widget for links where it will look at the URL and post a list of links base on what would be relevant to the page.
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Thank you for sharing your ideas webmaster! This theme will really help me to do something better next time. Thanks again webmaster for having me in in your site! What a gorgeous post!
ive seen this before, maybe do it to my blogs
Just wanna say thank you for the information that you have been shared with us webmaster! Hope that this will not be the last article that I could be read written by you. Thanks again webmaster!
It is nice that you decided to improve the LinkList widget.
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No doubt you had issues with changing blogengine but once You’re on BlogEngine.NET and you get used to it, you’ll find it a great code.
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You got a really useful blog I have been here reading for about an hour. I am a newbee and your success is very much an inspiration for me. The first page doesn’t need to be just a dream anymore…
Great share and nice website thanks
Thanks for sharing this posts….
Your blog settings are really great and I can truly say it is one of the best I have seen.
I hope you can easily resolve your problem about that.
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Widgets can make or break a blogging platform. Hopefully developers really get behind this and make a big range of plugins
So generous of you to be sharing the widget code. I am looking forward to your next posts.
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