Blog - Announcements

Upendo DNN Support Launches, Glanton Modules Return Next Week

will@upendoventures.com (Will Strohl) — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 19:26:00 GMT

We’re excited to share two big updates from our team at Upendo Ventures — updates we hope will help strengthen the DNN ecosystem for organizations and community members alike.

The DNN Community Has a New Look & Feel!

will@upendoventures.com (Will Strohl) — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 20:34:00 GMT

If you're coming here for the first time in a while, you may already feel like something is different. As the old saying goes, you may be feeling a bit disoriented even before beginning to read this blog post. Something is different... If you're feeling a bit like, "Who moved my cheese?" you're not alone.

DNN Community Forums 8.0 Released

will@upendoventures.com (Will Strohl) — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 20:34:00 GMT

It's been a little while since the last release of the DNN Community Forums module. If you're not already aware, this module is the same forums module we use on this website. So, we continually base the updates needed on our real-world, actual needs. This release brings with it all kinds of updates, and I'll attempt to summarize the most important things below.

Upendo DNN User Manager v1.1.1 Tips the Scales for Larger Sites!

will@upendoventures.com (Will Strohl) — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 17:49:21 GMT

Immediately upon releasing this module, it seems that some of you have already been pushing it's limits. We didn't expect that quite so quickly, so we needed to rush this release out the door. This release helps you support websites with larger numbers of end-users. This makes sense, too. Why would you need such a module, if you didn't have so many user accounts to manage. Well, we listened!

UpendoDNN Generator 1.11 Lays the Foundation for a Major Upcoming Feature

will@upendoventures.com (Will Strohl) — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 16:43:00 GMT

Today's release of the UpendoDNN Generator brings with it a lot of optimization and technical debt cleanup. I spent a lot of time looking through the recent updates and wanted to clean up a handful of things. Some of them were minor things, but many were a bit more "involved" than that.

Upendo DNN User Manager 1.1 Release Summary

will@upendoventures.com (Will Strohl) — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 22:52:43 GMT

It hasn't been that long since we first announced the release of the brand new user management module for DNN, the Upendo DNN User Manager. We're already releasing a third release. This one mainly has some enhancements to the user creation and editing views.

UpendoDNN Generator 1.10 Saves You a TON of Time Versioning

will@upendoventures.com (Will Strohl) — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 23:01:00 GMT

This release of the UpendoDNN Generator includes a very specific feature that I wanted to include in the previous release, but timing didn't work out for us. However, today is a different day. As of version 1.10 of the generator, you now only have to make a single version number update, and all other places will be updated for you!

User & Role Management Module for DNN by Upendo Ventures

will@upendoventures.com (Will Strohl) — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 17:37:55 GMT

I can't express to you how excited I am to announce this module being released - not over a blog. Our latest module to be released is a user management module for DNN that doesn't have Telerik built in. A client needs to upgrade, and this is the last remaining remnant of Telerik in their. No other modules could meet their needs, so here we are!

Upendo DNN Simple Authentication Provider Released

will@upendoventures.com (Will Strohl) — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 21:46:00 GMT

Whoa... If you're keeping up with the official DNN blog, this marks 3 different project releases for us in less than a week! This time, we're announcing a brand new extension that allows you to enable the ability for your website end-users to authenticate themselves using a far more modern means, than the aging username & password method.

UpendoDNN Generator 1.9.2 for DNN Extension Development

will@upendoventures.com (Will Strohl) — Sun, 13 Aug 2023 02:38:00 GMT

Wow... I can't believe that it will be 5 years ago this upcoming February when I originally released this project. This is the ONLY extension development tool that helps anyone build nearly anything for DNN. First, I can't believe it's been such a long time. But, looking back, it's been a really fun journey.

Upendo DNN Prompt 1.5 Released!

will@upendoventures.com (Will Strohl) — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 19:08:00 GMT

We originally released the UpendoDNN Generator just less than two years ago. Holy moly, I thought I was going to look it up and find a much longer span of time! I've personally used this SO many times for projects, I guess it seems like much longer. Upgrades alone are faster. This release brings a couple of fun updates, and it sets the stage for some other updates we can't wait to work on later.

OpenContent Templates for Mandeeps' Porto Theme

will@upendoventures.com (Will Strohl) — Thu, 25 May 2023 09:48:53 GMT

If you haven't been in the DNN ecosystem long, you may not know that one of the most popular themes you can buy is the Porto theme, by Mandeeps. And there are two prominent structured content solutions out there, including an open-source one known as OpenContent. Both are very popular and flexible solutions that I'd recommend to anyone that needs either. However, we have news about both...

DNN Community: How has DNN Improved Your Life Over the Years?

will@upendoventures.com (Will Strohl) — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 19:37:00 GMT

While a lot of people were doing all of their holiday parties, shopping, and other activities, DNN itself had a little secret... It turned 20 years young! You read that correctly. DNN was released more than 20 years ago, on Christmas Eve of 2022. Since then, DNN has helped millions of developers, business owners, marketers, designers, and others build incredible websites and website applications of all sizes, in all industries.

OpenContent Templates for Mandeeps Porto Theme

will@upendoventures.com (Will Strohl) — Wed, 08 Feb 2023 19:44:00 GMT

Happy DNN Summit day, everyone! We hope you're having an awesome time at the DNN Summit conference today and tomorrow. Our team is split among still working, but a handful are there with you. This year, in celebration of our epic DNN CMS 20th anniversary and the conference itself, we wanted to something special for all of you. So, we've spent a ton of time working on some open-source stuff, starting with this project...

Upendo's DNN Page Manager v1.1.1 Released

will@upendoventures.com (Will Strohl) — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 15:50:00 GMT

If you're not aware, our team at Upendo Ventures recently published an open-source module that empowers non-administrators and non-technical persons to perform many of the most common tasks that they need to do with pages in DNN, including finding and editing various pages. This release expands on those capabilities.

DNN Community Forums Module Roadmap

will@upendoventures.com (Will Strohl) — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 01:18:00 GMT

No matter the situation, there is a massively critical element to that situation that is more important than any other... What is that you may ask? In a word, communication. If communication is not a primary focus of a community, all kinds of issues arise. We can laugh them off, or ignore them, but accurate and timely communication is the best way we can effectively build anything involving more than one person.

Announcements Module 7.3.0 Released

will@upendoventures.com (Will Strohl) — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 16:53:04 GMT

Did you know that there's a new release of the official Announcements module for DNN? Well, you do now! The announcements module has long been a primary way for new DNN websites to add the ability to have a news - or dare I say "announcements" - section/feature on their DNN website. So, yes. This module does exactly what it sounds. Here's what is new...

DNN Summit 2021 Gold Sponsor: nvisionative

will@upendoventures.com (Will Strohl) — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 18:51:00 GMT

This is the second in a series of blog posts and interviews with Gold Sponsors of the upcoming DNN Summit 2021 conference. In this interview, we speak to David Poindexter of nvisionative. David and I speak about his company, our expectations of the conference, and just banter around with some fun DNN stuff!

The Future of Active Forums and a New Release!

will@upendoventures.com (Will Strohl) — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 18:42:00 GMT

First and foremost, I'm pleased to be able to announce that there is a new version of Active Forums available. It's been a couple of weeks in the making, or months if you consider some of the details in this blog post. There were several people in the community that chipped in to make this release possible as well, so I'm extra excited about this release.

DNN Awareness Group July 2019 Meeting

will@upendoventures.com (Will Strohl) — Wed, 10 Jul 2019 18:31:00 GMT

We held our monthly Awareness DNN Ecosystem Advisory Group meeting today. This month, we had a lot of activity around the new .org website initiative and documentation. There is so much to be "aware" this month. Don't miss out...