Yes. DNN Platform is a free, open-source CMS under the MIT License.

What is the tech stack for DNN?

DNN runs on ASP.NET (.NET Framework 4.8+) with Microsoft SQL Server (2017+ or Azure SQL).

DNN Platform is community-led and a member project of the .NET Foundation.

What’s the difference between DNN and Evoq?

DNN Platform is the open-source core that's been wildly popular and adopted for over 20 years. Evoq is a commercial offering maintained by DNN Software (IgniteTech) that builds on DNN.

DNN Blogs

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NEW - Google Analytics 4 Connector

Currently there are two Connectors in DNN Platform for quickly configuring analytics scripts. One is the original Google Analytics connector. In its current state, this works for Universal Analytics properties using the latest recommend script placement. The other is the Google Tag Manager connector. This one is great for those that prefer to manage everything using a Google Tag Manager container.

DNN-Connect 2023 Trip Advisor Links for Our Venues

I know I can’t speak for everyone, but I think we’d be pretty unanimous in collectively agreeing that all of the venues we were at during this year’s conference were pretty amazing. Whenever I have great experiences like that, I tend to want to try and support them in some way. For things like this where we’re all tourists (kind-of), giving them a good review can go a long way. This blog post is meant to help you do that – if you want to.

Will Strohl
2023-05-31

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Upendo DNN Generator 1.7 Brings More Templates to You

It's been a little while since we released a public update for the Upendo DNN Generator tool we use to build modules for clients and ourselves. (We got busy.) When I originally began working on it, my vision was to have a template for each kind of extension, and this release brings us a lot closer to that vision!

OpenContent Templates for Mandeeps' Porto Theme

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...

Upendo DNN Page Manager 1.1.2 Released

We're very excited to announce version 01.01.02 of the Upendo DNN Page Manager module is ready for you to use. In this release, we focused directly on just fixing a few bugs. These bugs include...

May 2023 SoFri: Transitioning to Google Analytics 4 (GA4)

The main topic of the presentation is the transition to Google Analytics 4 from Universal Analytics, with details on the transition process and important dates.

We are excited that the start of DNN Connect 2023 is now only 3 weeks away!

We are excited that the start of DNN Connect 2023 is now only 4 weeks away!

Timo Breumelhof.
2023-05-04

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April 23 SoFri: Helpful DNN Tools & Utilities

The SouthernFried DNN User Group! This meeting's topic, a shared collection of Tools and Utilities for DNN shared by the SoFri DNN Community members!

DNN 09.11.02 Released

We are happy to announce that a new version of DNN has been released DNN 09.01.02 can downloaded from GitHub

Timo Breumelhof.
2023-04-03

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Great news for DNN designers and developers!

The Dnn-Elements site is back, check it out at dnncommunity.github.io/dnn-elements

Clay N.
2023-02-26

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