There are times when DNN's HTML output needs tweaking and the tools available to theme developers do not include access to things like the body or html tags. But DNN is built on ASP.NET and there is a way...

The CMS 2020 report of G2 is out! And DNN Platform is ranking as a high performer!

Last couple of months I have been bugging y'all to vote for DNN on the G2 website. I explained G2 how the versions are different and they went along with that. And now...it paid off!  

Well...it has been three weeks of pretty steady work, but I have finally managed to get ALL issues on GitHub added to the Issue Triage project.

If you've been watching the journey of Hotcakes Commerce over the years at all, you know that it has a very interesting past.  It began as a different platform altogether. It became a wildly successful commercial e-commerce solution that consistently was in the top 3 products in the DNN Store.  It then became an open-source e-commerce platform, making it freely available to the world.  This is the solution you're reading about and know about today.  

Recently I was upgrading a DNN site that was on version 7.4.2. My target was the latest release, which at the time of this writing is version 9.6.1. I have successfully upgraded many DNN sites in the pasts, but this upgrade was through a few different major and minor versions and involved some in-depth investigation. I wanted to document my learnings to share them with the DNN Community in the case that they may be helpful to someone in the future.

2sxc is made for web designers - and the new Code-Behind feature will make it much more so. 

I really like that DNN is updating the used libraries more actively than before. The DNN 09.06.00 Release comes with the latest jQuery; version 03.05.00 Unfortunately there's a change in jQuery 03.05.00 that makes some JavaScript Libraries fail, one of them being the "Collapse" functionality in Bootstrap. Read more in this Github issue There is already a new release of jQuery: 03.05.01 which repairs the issue.

Polymorphism is much easier with 2sxc 11 - allowing you to do A/B testing, develop on a live system without breaking the output users see and targeting multiple CSS-Frameworks. 

2sxc 11 is out celebrating International Star Wars Day. Highlights are new Admin-UI, Razor Code-Behind, automatic Polymorphism and lots of new Apps. We're super excited - may the force be with you!

Recently there was a question on Facebook about content localization. It's one of those features that work really well as long as you know how :-)

So, here's the run down.