Modern Theme

Widgets

Archives

Creates an archive by listing the count of published posts organized by year and month.
 

Authors

Lists the count of published posts for each author along with individual author RSS Feed.
 

Calendar

Displays a monthly calendar highlighting days with published posts.

 

Categories

Displays a hierarchical view of categories with the count of published posts along with individual category RSS Feed.

Featured Posts

Displays a list of featured posts anywhere on the site with ability to filter on a specific author and/or category and limit number of posts.

Popular Posts

Displays a list of popular posts anywhere on the site with ability to filter on a specific author and/or category and limit number of posts.

Recent Comments

Displays a list of recent comments anywhere on the site with ability to filter on a specific author and/or category and limit number of posts.

Recent Posts

Displays a list of recent posts anywhere on the site with ability to filter on a specific author and/or category and limit number of posts.

Tags Cloud

Creates a based tag cloud based on tags weight and distribution across all posts.

 

Twitter Widgets

Displays twitter widgets such as recent tweets from your twitter account.

 

Blog Rolls

Quickly add links to other blog posts driven by RSS Feeds. Blogrolls are great traffic driving tools and easy way to present fresh and related content.

SEO

Meta Title

Each post has its own title, meta description, and keywords.

Friendly URLs

Each post can have its own unique and custom friendly URL. An admin can even elect to remove the page name from the URL for total control over generated URLs.

Sitemap Generator

Automatically generates URL Sitemap with all published posts for submission to search engines.

Open Graph Meta Tags

It maps what content shows up when a page is shared on social networks.

Structured Data

Structured data is a standardized format forproviding information about a page and classifying the page content. Learn more about Structured Data.

Integration

 Live Campaign

Live Blog seamlessly integrates with Live Campaign - automatically sends out an email campaign with every new blog post.
Live Campaign is a dedicated email solution for DNN and is sold separately.

 Live Social

Live Blog seamlessly integrates with Live Social - automatically post to Social Networks with every new blog post.

Social Sharing

DNN Journal & Social Groups Integration

Whenever a post is published or updated, automatically updates DNN Journal Activity & pre specified DNN Social Groups.
Requires Live Social Module

Facebook Integration

Automatically updates Facebook news feeds with link, content, and picture of blog post.
Requires Live Social Module

Twitter Integration

Automatically tweets new posts and/or updates with seamless Twitter integration. Post URL is automatically shortened (using Bit.ly integration) and appended to each tweet.
Requires Live Social Module

Social Icons

Ability to show any number of social networking icons on your post to encourage sharing. Show individual icons from Facebook, Twitter, and Linked In or integrate with services such as www.addthis.com and www.sharethis.com to show myriad of social networking options.

Comment System

Disqus

Disqus is a global comment system that improves discussion on websites and connects conversations across the web.
Live Blog seamlessly integrates with Disqus Comments Platform. See //www.disqus.com for more information. Optionally generates an XML file to import your existing comments in Disqus.

Live Blog also includes its own comments engine with following advanced features:

Comments Moderation

It allows you to prevent comments from appearing on your site without your express approval.

Nested Comments

It allows you to comment on (reply to) other comments.

Gravatar Integration

It integrates with the service provided by Gravatar. If the user has a Gravatar linked with his or her e-mail address, it will be used as their user picture for comments

Notification Services

It allows you to notify users of new comments via email.

Akismet Integration

Akismet filters out your comment and track-back spam for you, so you can focus on more important things.

RSS Feeds / Syndication

Multiple Feeds

Live Blog includes a powerful syndication platform. Besides the main Live Blog module feed, it can generate RSS Feeds on categories, authors.

Flexible Engine

RSS output can be changed by passing a filter query parameter. Parameters include ability to change description from plain text to HTML, limit number of words, and limit number of total items returned.

Google's FeedBurner

Supports alternate feed url for the main feed and individual authors feed. This allows you to integrate Live Blog with other services such as Google’s FeedBurner.

Timeline & Masonry Layout

Introducing Timeline & Masonry Layout for Recent, Featured, and Popular Posts’ Widgets. Timeline Layout is similar to Facebook Timeline Profile and it displays the content grouped by Year & Month. Masonry Layout is similar to Pinterest and displays content by placing elements in optimal position based on available vertical space.

Themes & Templates

Themes

Includes several themes out of the box and it's quick and easy to create new themes.

Templates

Themes are template driven and every aspect of it can be customized with basic HTML and CSS knowledge.

Toggle Features

Ability to turn on/off theme features such as widgets from options without any edits or modification to theme.

Responsive

Responsive Web Design (RWD) automatically adapts the layout to the viewing environment including Desktop, Tablets, & Mobile.
*Requires Responsive DNN Theme.

Performance Focused

SQL Optimized

Optimized SQL Queries with minimized number of round trips to SQL Server and paged data access from SQL Server.

Automatic Caching

Automatically caches recurring data for improved performance.

Resource Optimization

Uses compressed JavaScript and minifield CSS files for improved client side performance.

DNN Scheduler

Includes a dedicated DNN Scheduled Task for Ping Services and Email Notifications.

Other Features

Multiple Author Support

It’s easy to extend dnn blogging privileges to others. In addition to default “View” and “Edit” permissions, Live Blog has “Authors” permission which can be assigned to any number of security roles and/or users.

Search

Quickly searches within all posts using modern interactive technologies. Options include to search within title, description, tags, and/or content. Support for both word only and wildcard search.

Trackbacks & Pingbacks

All outgoing links from the posts is tracked and pinged back so your post will get listed in the comments on the linked website if it supports it.

Syntax Highlighter

It integrates with Syntax Highlighter which allows you to quickly format and highlight any code samples in your post. It has support for dozens of programming languages and several themes.

Related Posts

Shows related posts and their summaries towards the end of a blog post.

DNN Features

DNN Searchable

Content is indexed and searchable by DNN built-in search engine.

Localization

Supports DNN Localization API to localize all static texts to native language.

Migrate to Live Blog