Features

 

Anti-Spam Features

  • Automatic Referral and Trackback blacklist update
  • CAPTCHA for non-admin users (Font warping has also been increased in this version)
  • Logging and display of Comment IP addresses and resolved Hostnames for Admins
  • DasBlogUpgrader can strip spam from existing content folders
  • Support for rel="nofollow"
  • Ability to delete referrals and trackbacks directly from the Admin UI
  • Delete comments directly from your mail reader
  • Comment moderation option
  • RSS Emails removed to avoid having email addresses stolen from Feeds
  • Support for AKISMET (next release)

Security Features

  • HttpOnly cookies
  • Admin access auditing
  • SMTP Authentication for outgoing mail

Syndication Features

  • Improved RSS Comments support for SharpReader and RSS Bandit
  • Upgraded Atom support from 0.3 to Valid Atom 1.0. ATOM Syndication permalink changes but 301 is issued.
  • RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0 validates via FeedValidator.
  • Ability to mark entries as "syndicated" or not. Entries can appear on the site but not in RSS/Atom.
  • New between RC1 and Gold: Plugable, configurable pinging of Blog Search engines like pubsub and technorati.
  • Channel Image feature (RSS Bug)
  • Direct Feedburner Support with 301 redirection for RSS and Atom feeds.

Performance Features

  • Search Highlighting is optional now
  • Referrals are logged but not stored in XML by default. Configurable.
    (This has huge performance benefits for high traffic sites.)
  • dasBlog Upgrader can optionally remove all referrals.
    (Again with high traffic sites some folks had 5meg XML files full of referrals)
  • Theme templates are now cached in memory.
  • Log files are archived daily to .zip files.
  • Support for Really Simple Discovery (RSD) so client software can autoconfigure itself
  • Support for alternate SMTP ports

Installation Features

  • VBS for IIS permissions and VDir creation
  • Support for running under ASP.NET 2.0
  • Support for running on Win2k 2003 without changing permissions when impersonation is enabled
  • dasBlogBlogXContentImporter tool

Content Features

  • Ability to pre- and post-date entries
  • Cross Posting (post is added two blogs at once)
  • Permalinks based on Title and Date optional: 2005/06/06/title.aspx
  • Latest build of Free Text Box including ability to upgrade FTB without upgrading DasBlog.
  • Text Editor (FTB) supports IE7
  • Text Editor (FTB) supports FireFox
  • Blog Statistics Log
  • Blog Statistics macro
  • Archive pages macro
  • macro for items disclaimer
  • macro for homePageTemplate disclaimerLink
  • Mail-To-Weblog continues to improves. Works with Thunderbird.
  • Upload Image and Upload Attachment
  • Comments can now be "closed" for a given Entry
  • Entries can be set to IsPublic (i.e. working drafts before release)
  • Large calendar view with posts
  • Blogroll.aspx for rendering your blogroll.opml file
  • TrackBack Autodiscovery is attempted before PingBack Autodiscovery
  • Pingbacks from one dasBlog to another dasBlog work
  • TagCloud Support
  • Support for Mobile Browsers like Blackberries and SmartPhones
  • Top Posters macro and total comments
  • Macros for Next Post and Previous Post
  • Macro for Category Paging (next release)
  • Support for Gravatars
  • Support for limited HTML markup in comments
  • Email page for leaving comments to the author, includes Captcha
  • Pluggable Rich Text Editor, choose from the latest version of FreeTextBox or FCKEditor or write your own adapter
  • Multi-user/blogger support
  • Emailed Daily Activity Reports
  • Support for Blogging directly from Word 2007
  • DHTML Timeline of Posts from the MIT Simile project
  • Support for SMTP Servers like Gmail for notifications (and alternate SMTP ports)
  • LiveComment Preview
  • Category and Home Page Paging Macros

Extensibility Features

  • Custom Macro Plugin model without recompiling DasBlog (see the source for the example custom macro)
  • Works with Windows Live Writer out of the box
  • Support for CoComment
  • Microsummary support for Firefox 2.0 Beta
  • Automatic generation of Google SiteMaps
  • Automatic disabling of Comments after a certain number of days. Also manual "close comments" support
  • ContentLookAhead show future dated posts
  • Ajax Autosave Drafts support

Theme Features

  • dasBlog now ships with 24 themes and a Theme Combo to change between them.
  • theme.manifest file makes themes and image assets more portable.
  • dasBlog Badges/Artwork

Architecture

  • ASP.NET 2.0, C#
  • Medium Trust model
  • Operational under ASP.NET 2.0 and ASP.NET 3.0
  • Structured XML data store
  • Supports template themes (Ships with over 24)
 
Features