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For people new to DNN, the Languages feature can unintentionally hide a lot of useful things you can customize in your DNN site. This often results in common questions like:

• How do I edit the registration emails DNN sends?
• Can I change the word "Site" to "Intranet" in a bunch of places in the PersonaBar?
• Is it possible to customize my site's Terms and Conditions?

Do you know Database Mail? Those who administer an MS SQL Server apart from the Express Edition might know it, and there is a nice interface to configure it in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS). But this interface is missing in the Express Edition. The reason for that is that the SQL Server Agent Services are not present in this edition, which does not let us configure maintainence tasks or Database Mail.
These services use the MSDB database, and this database is installed as one of the system databases, even in SQL Server Express Edition. With a few SQL statements we can activate and configure Database Mail, and make use of this feature.

DNN 9.7.0 was slated as the next big release on our roadmap.  Plans included a new Resource Manager for managing digital assets.  While we were still working on the new Resource Manager and marching towards the 9.7.0 release, we received a nice mix of bug fixes and new features as pull requests.  And since we were aiming for a minor release, we did not separate bug fixes from new features. 

In Part 2 of this blog, we will take a look at how we can use a new tool called DNN_Tailwind to create DNN themes based on the Tailwind CSS framework. If you have not read Part -1, you may want to read it first, if you are not familiar with Tailwind CSS

In this two-part series, I will discuss creating DNN Themes utilizing the Tailwind CSS framework. It was meant to be a single blog post to introduce you to a new theme development platform I developed for the DNN Community, that utilizes the Tailwind CSS Framework. I soon discovered not many in the DNN Community know what Tailwind is.

Mitch Sellers presents to us a new module for simple setup of Two-Factor Authentication for DNN.


With security a huge concern in modern time for all users, Mitch Sellers and Iowa Computer Gurus introduce a new Simple 2 Factor Authentication Provider for DNN. This authentication provider works to replace the standard DNN Login process and introduces 2-Factor Verification to secure login.

Here we are (I'm lower-left) gathering to take the DNN Summit group picture. When can we get together again? I’m pleased to see a new effort underway (as I am with any effort, frankly) to bring people together to present, share and discuss our favorite website building platform, DNN. 

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!  

This evening we got together to talk about recent DNN community news, releases and activities within DNN Github. The VirBella system was reviewed as a possible fun way to have a larger group conference in a virtual space.