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

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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.

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Image compress/resize/crop tools Started By willem How to scale and crop images, and manually define the focal point of images. In DNN or use of external image compression/resize/crop tools What is the best practice for DNN	1	49	0	4/15/2026 4:33 AM by willem
Page HasBeenPublished status Started By willem In the database table 'tabs' is a field 'HasBeenPublished'. It's always on 1. I like to change this field to 0 when it's not active. Is there an option in the DNN page interface to change the HasBeenPublished status	5	95	0	3/24/2026 5:54 AM by willem
Issue with Content Managers and Content Editors roles Started By John Slater Hello all, We've been working with the 10.x upgrades and stumbled across a horrifying (for us) discovery. The 10.x upgrades we've been working with are forcing every single page to have edit access to the Content Managers and Content Editors role. This built-in role doesn't allow us to remove those permissions on a single page, nor delete either of these roles. In one case a separate random user was added to each role. Is the behavior of having those two roles having editing rights on eve...	6	139	1	2/12/2026 5:27 PM by John Slater
How to delete module message Started By sjones We have a custom login page which is mostly a copy of the default one. However, if a user signs in and they need to accept terms and update their profile. They are first prompted for terms acceptance: And then prompted to update their profile: All good except the message for 'You must accept out terms to continue' which remains after proceeding from the accept terms page to the update profile page. How can we remove this message This is the code which is largely the same as...		69	0	4/1/2026 9:42 AM by sjones
Reset password does not work when setting a custom login page Started By sjones We have a custom login module that we have set as the custom login page in site settings > site behaviour. When this is set the link that is sent to users on Reset Password via email does not work. The link is like so: 'http://localhost/dnn/Registration.aspxctl=PasswordReset&resetToken=8ca0a707-dffb-4db7-835e-956f0bd15f15' But results in the browser going to: 'http://localhost/dnn/CMISLogin.aspxTabID=151&ctl=PasswordReset&resetToken=51e62623-faf4-4764-939d-6c4e37d66eb8' and err...	1	84	0	3/27/2026 12:36 PM by sjones
Troubleshooting scheduled task hanging after completion DNN 7.4.2 Started By Isa Recently, a task has started to hang around after completion. It is happening just for this task, just in this install, and I don't understand why. Not sure how relevant this will be. The task is scheduled to run every 30 minutes. But it can also be scheduled by another task or database connection timeout via: var schedulingProvider = SchedulingProvider.Instance(); var scheduleItem = schedulingProvider.GetSchedule(typeFullName, null); schedulingProvider.RunScheduleItemNow(scheduleItem, t...	1	153	1	3/18/2026 7:14 AM by Isa
Cannot click on the Edit and Page setting Started By Pramod I have HTML module on a page. When i click on the top right pencil or the wheel nothing happen. I cannot edit the page, change font of the text. In the config page	2	92	1	3/18/2026 3:47 PM by Pramod
DNN - odd admin interface Started By alexismaria Hi, We have two DNN portals that use 9.13.9 and the other is 9.13.10. One will be decommissioned (9.13.9), the other will be revised using 10.2.2. and a newer module. It is not an emergency, but one of the sites will be live and functioning for another month. I went into the admin area and noticed a very strange interface that isn't really functional. Why did this happen and how can one fix this The file directory is scattered and unusable in many places. Including a screen capture:	1	79	2	3/9/2026 1:45 PM by alexismaria
Need to Give Permission to view and Edit Only Specific Pages Started By Tarunjit Hi All, I have DNN 9.11.0 installed and have the following requirement : Users belonging to specif role should be allowed to view/edit pages in specified hierarchy. By hierachy i mean parent page and its descendenats. These users shoudnot be allowed to access/edit any other page in the DNN site. Users which doesn't belong to that role shouldn't be allowed to access such pages. Note : I have already implmeneted point 1 and 3 by creating a role and managing permissions of such pa...	3	682	1	10/20/2023 11:24 AM by Tarunjit
User/Role Issues in DNN 10.01.01 Started By Georgeb1951 Reposting to clarify the issue DNN 10.01.01 default Aperture theme I have added users via the registration process, authorized them, and added 'Registered Users' to the 'Members Area' page and copied permissions to dependent pages. I have also disallowed the everyone role. When I log in to the site as a registered user, the 'Members Area' menu item does not display, and if I access it directly, I get redirected to the access denied page. Here are my settings. What am I missing Here ar...	2	83	1	3/5/2026 1:36 PM by Georgeb1951

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