BlogEngine.Net Plugins and Extensions

I took this from http://www.dotnetblogengine.net/page/Extensions.aspx:

Extensions

Here's a list of extensions that you can download and implement into your own BlogEngine.NET installation.  Thanks goes to Paul Tumelty for collecting this list and sharing with it us.

Embedded Media Extensions

• Slideshow Photo Gallery - Silverlight based Photo Gallery
• Lightbox Extension - Integrates the Lightbox Javascript Library into BlogEngine.NET
• Thumbnailer Extension - Automatically generates thumbnails of images embedded in posts/pages
• Flash MP3 Player - Allows you to embed a small flash movie to play mp3s on your blog
• Odiogo - Add voice to your site
• YouTube - Add YouTube videos into posts
• FLV Flash Player - Embed FLV files into posts
• Random Image Control - Displays a random image from a given directory
• Gallery User Control - Automatically generate thumbnails of images in a folder and build a table to show them
• Silverlight Slideshow - Silverlight based slideshow control
• Alternative Lightbox Extension - Another Lightbox extensions for BlogEngine.NET
• Picasa - Image gallery
• Vimeo Video - Embedded Vimeo video player
• Pretty Photo - Based on Lightbox2 image viewer
• Simple Gallery - Simple Image Gallery

Navigational Extensions

• Historical Breadcrumbs - Shows the last few pages visited
• Hierarchical Breadcrumb Extension - Shows the user where they are on your blog
• Menu User Control - Allows you to configure hierarchical menus that can link to pages/posts
• Random Post Link Generator - Generates a link to a random post from your blog
• Pager Control - Alternative post paging control

Sydication/Social Bookmarking Extensions

• Social Bookmarking Extension - Enables you to add links to all of the major social bookmarking sites
• FeedFlare Plugin - Something to do with FeedFlare (in Italian!)
• DotNet Kicks Button - Submit a blog entry to DotNetKicks
• SIOC Implementation for BlogEngine.Net - SIOC for BlogEngine.NET. SIOC (Semantically-Interconnected Online Communities) is an extension of RDF which goes beyond RSS in that it describes not only the content of a website, but the connections between site content, users on the site, and other websites.
• Updated DotNetKicks Button - Enhanced DotNetKicks Extension
• DZone badge which have a category you have designated to automatically receive a badge
• Tweet this - Add a button to the bottom of each blog post which allows anyone to send a tweet

Statistical Extensions

• Counter Extension - Counts file downloads
• Top Commenters Extension - Shows who the top commenters are on your blog
• Google Tracker Extension - Insert the Google Tracker information for Analytics
• Click Tracker - Track clicks to external websites from your blog
• Simple Counter Extension (Al Nyveldt) - Count hits for downloads
• File Download Tracker (Chris Blakenship) - Another File Download Tracker
• Page Load Time Control - Shows how long it took to render the page

Anti-Spam Extensions

• Akismet Anti Spam - Get rid of Comment Spam
• SpamFighter - Block spam in comments
• Commentor - Spam blocker with Akismet and comment management

Theme Widgets

• Quote of the Day Widget - Widget enabling storage and display of Quotes of the Day
• Stock Quotes Widget - Widget which enables Stock Quotes to be displayed on your blog
• Digsby - IM and social networks widget
• Movies For My Blog - Displays last 10 movies that have been watched on your netflix account
• Poll Widget - Add polls to your blog
• Twitter Feed - Widget to display the list of specific user's tweets
• Twitter Search - Widget displays the results of a search as list of tweets

Hyperlink Extensions

• Toolbox Extension - Allows you to build lists of resources which can easily be referenced via blog posts, or displayed in a list (This page is built using this!)
• Wikipedia Plugin - Allows creation of links to terms in Wikipedia (site in Italian)
• QuickLinks - Automatically create hyperlinks from keywords
• QuickerLinks - Enhanced version of QuickLinks
• Snap Links Extension - Provide thumbnail previews of Links
• ShortLink Extension - Create shortcuts from small text snippets

Administration Extensions 

• Comment Relish - Send users that comment a welcome message after their first comment
• Password protect posts - Only users with certain roles can see posts based on category
• My Profile Extension - Allows an admin to modify details for themselves
• Encrypt Web.Config Extension for BlogEngine.Net - Encrypts Web.Config
• Artmel XML Membership with BlogEngine 1.3 - Use the Artem XML Membership provider after upgrading to BlogEngine.Net v1.3
• iPhone - Add-in to publish posts from iPhone/iPod Touch
• Live Journal - Cross-post to Live Journal
• NuePageList - Will automatically add a list of child pages when you insert [ nuePageList ] into any page in your blog, followed by their description. It is handy if you want to generate self updating page navagation in BlogEngine. 
• NuePageNav - Creates a page navagation tree, in the format Parent Page > Child Page. 
• Disqus Uploader - Export existing comments into Disqus (BlogEngine 1.6.1)

Input Extensions

• Comment Toolbar Extension - Enables additional options for people commenting on posts
• BBCode Toolbar Extension - Enables additional BBCode options for commenters
• TextFormatter - Wiki syntax in posts
• Syntax Highlighting - Make code samples look nice with the Syntax Highlighter
• Syntax Highlighter - Alex Gorbachev's JavaScript library implementation.
• Hot New - let you add hot/new indicator to the item in the post or page

Miscellaneous Extensions

• WoW Tooltip Extension - Replaces tags with details of WoW characters
• Xbox Gamercard Extension - Allows you to embed your xbox or xbox live gamercard into a blog post/page
• Windows Live Writer: Copy code to clipboard - A nice way to display code and make it easily available
• Feedjit - Live trafic feed
• Subscribe Reminder - Appends a small RSS subscription reminder to the footer of every blog entry for your readers

You can find even more extensions at the BlogEngine.NET Extensions CodePlex site.
If you have written an extension, then please contact us so we can add a link to it from this page.
You can also submit your extension at BlogEngine Theme site.

Increasing the timeouts for a DNN website

I found this online (here), and thought I'd jot down the important pieces for myself any anyone else who might run across this. There are several places you can adjust timeouts for websites in general, let alone a DotNetNuke CMS-based site. Here's a walkthrough:

• increase session time-out for the webserver
  
  
  • Open the properties for your DNN site in your IIS manager
  • Go to the tab "Home Directory"
  • Click the button "Configuration" in the lower section of the screen
    (You now have a window named "Application Configuration")
  • Go to the tab "Options"
  • Make sure "Enable session state" is enabled, and increase the value. Personally I prefer 60 minutes.
• Enable content expiration for the webserver (so nobody screws up their data using the back/foreward buttons in their browser)
  
  
  • Open the properties for your DNN site in your IIS manager
  • Go to the tab "HTTP Headers"
  • Make sure "Enable content expiration" is enabled and set your desired expire-time. Personally I prefer immediate expiration.
• Increase the session time-out for your DNN portal
  
  • Log in as Host
  • Go to the Host/provider configuratino page
  • Open the "Advanced" section
  • Increase the number of minutes users can be online without interaction
  • Save the setting
• Adjust the forms timeout for .NET web applications on your site
  
  • Open your web.config file
  • find the forms tag
  • Set the timeout value to whatever you like. The new default value for DNN is 60, but in older files (or sites where someone messed with the value) it might be lower. I prefer timeout="60" which also matches the above.
• Cycle/restart your IIS server

Recreating Exchange 2003 Virtual Directories for Outlook Web Access

Found this on the web and it worked perfectly. I knew everything about restarting the system attendent, but I had to remove my default website and recreate a blank one, so it had a different "ID" than the original one, which is where the kicker was. I'll put that part here first, although you need the IIS Resource Kit described in the steps below it to get to the Metabase Explorer.

I immediately had to wonder how the System Attendant service knew what my default website is.. or was. How does IIS flag the ‘ default website’ ?

A rummage though the IIS metabase basicly shows that under the W3SVC node, the site with ID 1, is the Dafault Website. I made a new site, which got a unique identifier, and just renamed it to 1 in the metabase. 5 minutes later the System Attendent service had rebuild my Exchange virtual folders! Woohoo!


a. Download and install the IIS 6.0 Resource Kit Tools. To obtain the IIS 6.0 Resource Kit Tools, visit the following Microsoft Web site:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=56FC92EE-A71A-4C73-B628-ADE 629C89499&displaylang=en
If you do not want to install all the IIS 6.0 Resource Kit Tools, click the Custom installation option to install only Metabase Explorer 1.6.

b. Start IIS Manager.

c. Back up the metabase. To do this, right-click Default Web Site, click All Tasks, and then click Save Configuration to a File. Type a filename for the file and click OK.

d. Expand Default Web Site, and then delete the following virtual directories:
• Microsoft-Server-ActiveSync
• OMA
• Exadmin
• Exchange
• Public
• ExchWeb

e. Start Metabase Explorer. To do this, click Start, point to All Programs, point to IIS Resources, point to Metabase Explorer, and then click Metabase Explorer.

f. Expand the LM key, right-click the DS2MB key, and then click Delete.

g. Close Metabase Explorer.

h. Restart the Microsoft Exchange System Attendant service to re-create the virtual directories in IIS.

Note If the virtual directories are not re-created after 15 minutes, restart the server.

i. In IIS Manager, expand Default Web Site, right-click Exchweb, and then click Properties.

j. Click the Directory Security tab, and then click Edit under Authentication and access control.

k. Verify that only the Enable anonymous access check box is selected.

l. Right-click Default Web Site, and then click Stop.

m. Right-click Default Web Site, and then click Start.