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...  

We are thrilled to announce DNN Connect 2023 will take place in the Swiss Alps from 25th to the 28th May 2023. This is our 12th conference. Our first European DNN event was held in 2009 in the Jura mountains with around 30 attendees. Since then we've grown and morphed from an informal get-together to a proper conference. But our conference is still mainly about and around the DNN Community, it’s members and beloved platform. We would love for you to join us!

We're very excited to announce that version 01.01.01 of the Upendo DNN Page Manager module has been released.  While there have certainly been several releases over the past handful of months, this release marks a significant milestone for me.  This is the first release where the current feature set represents the features I had in mind for the first release. Now, you get to learn what got released this time... 

DNN Summit 2023 is a 2-day online conference offering educational sessions centered around DNN Platform and the community. All sessions will be recorded and provided to registered attendees. Register Now – $199 The first 200 registered attendees will also receive a welcome box with conference details, a t-shirt, and additional event swag.

A very common question in recent years relates to how people are building their various DNN extensions these days.  Most often, new extensions and development are using various techniques and frameworks to present features using a SPA approach.  Whether the chosen tools include Angular, Vue, or something else, it makes sense.  End-users are more engaged when the page doesn't fully reload.  However, if you're the developer building this - and especially if you're not a seasoned pro, your first obstacle will undoubtedly be whether or not you know your API endpoint path.  This post will hopefully help you figure that out.  

This is a re-post and partial rewrite of a blog article I wrote back in 2010. Yeah. That was 12 years ago, and the post is not only still relevant, I'm rewriting it because of a question in the official DNN community forum last week. Oh, and I won't even mention that DNN just had it's 20th anniversary! I mean, wow!!

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.  

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.  

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...

Due to the nature of CkEditor and who it’s configured, adding icons (plugins) to your CKEditor in DNN can be confusing. CKEditor is an open-source editor that is used by many CMS systems and website builders. It has to be configured in a certain way and the interface in DNN (when you click the “Custom Editor Options” link) exposes most of these settings. And as almost everything in CKEditor can be configured, the option screen looks quite complex especially the “Editor Config” tab. As is mostly the case, with flexibility comes complexity..