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.

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Forum: Themes, Containers, and Templates

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Which standard to follow when creating a new Theme? Started By Stephen Hi We're looking to a create a new skin. In order to avoid redoing the work when DNN goes .NET Core, is it recommended to build the skin in pure HTML and use only Object tags instead of creating in full ASCX Thank you	6	2997	2	4/24/2020 11:50 AM by Stephen
Re-ordering a Multi Reference Object? Started By jason.h Basically, trying to do what my title says. Using Liquid Content, I am using a Multi-Reference object to allow my editors to to group content blocks. In this specific instance, it's a list of FAQ questions. No matter what order the FAQ's are added, they still show up in a certain order. How can I get them to appear in the order that they are added to the Multi Reference Object	2	2257	1	4/20/2020 4:35 PM by jason.h
Page title as theme object Started By Bernard Ouellet I'm a user of really older versions of DNN making a comeback (DNN 4.9). We're working on creating a theme for our new website (DNN 9.4). The theme is pretty simple. A homepage theme and a standard page theme. I want the standard page theme to display the page title like... well as a page title. In older versions of DNN, there used to be a theme object (skinobject) to do just that. It looks like it's been taken out of the theme objects list (https://www.dnndocs.com/c...-objects/index.html...	7	3794	2	4/15/2020 7:17 PM by Bernard Ouellet
9.5.0 - Gravity Skin Started By Ronnie I upgraded 9.1.1 to 9.3.2 then to 9.5.0 per dnndocs suggested upgrade path. Everything but the Gravity Skin works fine. If I am logged on then the skin displays correctly. If I am not logged in the data, menus and graphics are there but the skin is not applied. I have double check the configuration and applied the skin again, but still not correct. Any help would be appreciated!! Thanks, Ronnie	3	2587	1	4/6/2020 6:00 PM by Ronnie
DNN9.5.0 page template question Started By MichaelVeneziano Hello, I am tring to use a page template that has been used on previous verions of DNN. I have uploaded the page templates to the portals template folder. The templates are all visible in the site assests. When I create new page, I select page type to be 'file'. I choose browse file system and use the drop down to select templates folder and the file drop down I select my template. After this when trying to view the page I recive a 404 error. I have also tried using the deafult template and it a...		3089	0	4/10/2020 6:34 PM by MichaelVeneziano
Reset all pages to default skin Started By Michal Hello, while playing with new skins, I noticed not all pages are set to default site skin. What is best procedure to reset all pages to default skin I know there is possibility to 'Copy Appearance to Descendant Pages' but that is available only to particular page > subpages. But thats not very handy if I have more pages in site root. No any function to reset everything under site root Currently I did SQL UPDATE [dnn_Tabs] set SkinSrc = NULL, ContainerSrc = NULL but not sure if its ok, any...	3	2355	1	3/23/2020 5:43 AM by Michal
MinimalExtropy skin in DNN 8+ ? Started By Michal After some (solved) troubles with portal upgrade, now I focus to fix MinimalExtropy skin, it have some issues under DNN 8 and later. I need to keep it, because most of my contents rely on layout based on TopPane, LeftPane, ContentPane, RightPane which is not available in other skins. Not functional skin cause 2 issues: a) websites menu and submenus are all expanded, so I need to scroll down like 4 screens over all lines to see real contents. That is related to SolPartMenu When I open index...	25	13027	3	2/7/2020 4:11 AM by Michal
Visualizer Template - If Statement Only Working in Test Started By Jordan Heatwole Hi, In the comments below is my visualizer template. Everything works perfectly on the test site, and everything except the { if imageURL !='' } statement works perfectly on production. The content type configuration is identical. imageURL is a new field I added because the assets field duplicates images on the server when uploaded, so I want to use the URL of the image instead, but don't want to break all the images currently being used by the assets field. If I have an image URL, I wan...	1	2130	1	3/12/2020 12:06 PM by Jordan Heatwole
Module Titles are Showing Up on Live Site Started By Cindy Tribucher Hello, While trying to add a link to the primary navigation, somehow I managed to expose the module titles used on the page and I need to get rid of them. It's for an intranet, so I can't provide a URL, but I've linked to a screenshot. Can you help me get rid of the module titles Many thanks! Cindy https://1drv.ms/u/s!AhyHB...HgMwA57z6kxe=NH1bZ6	11	6936	3	3/9/2020 5:20 PM by Cindy Tribucher
DNN Site Builder Version: Vanjaro Started By willem It looks like DNN has an answer to all the people that prefer building websites in Wordpress or other Site builders like Weebly, Squarespace and Duda. It's called Vanjaro and it's build bij de the developers of Mandeeps: vanjaro.com Great news and it certainly will close the gap between Wordpress and the Online Sitebuilders. Now we have the best of both worlds: application framework and easy website builder. All happy: developers, designers and marketeers But is it really open source an...	4	3407	4	1/3/2020 9:03 AM by willem

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