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This extension helps you add a link back to your article/post along with the QR code in RSS/Atom feed's signature. [More]

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Facebook or any other social sharing platforms generally pick up an image from shared web page
using their own algorithm. But there is a way that you can point them to an image that you want to be shown as a thumbnail.
The solution is to add an open graph meta tag in your web page with the link to the desired image. The open graph standard is followed by many social sharing sites including Facebook. Here is an extension to add the meta tag on its own to your BlogEngine's posts.
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The extension is pretty simple and uses Google's chart API to generate a QR code for your post's URL. The user can scan it using his mobile's QR code scanner application. Once scanned, the embedded post URL will be read by scanner and user can visit it on his mobile without typing anything. So, it actually helps you share your posts without even using any Facebook, email or any other online mechanism.

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It has intrinsic support for popular blogging platforms like wordpress but supports others like BlogEngine.net through API’s. Well, you do not need to know anything about the API’s to get it working for you, it is simply a matter of configuring it to start blogging with BlogEngine.net. There are many benefits of using LIVE writer like a strong inbuilt image editor (crop, watermark, format painter etc.), spell checker and much more. You will definitely fall in love with this tool if you start using it. It can be used to blog offline and post to online blog as and when the internet is available. [More]

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It is a very basic need to have a forum and a blog on a single website these days. If you already have a asp.net website and are looking to set up a forum and a blog, then you can cretainly use open source softwares to get the functionality FREE of cost.

There are the one of the best options that I have found and have been using for some years now. [More]

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Are you looking to set up a Blog on your existing asp.net website and have finalized BlogEngine Dot Net, then this article will help you do the set up.

For those who do not know, it is an open source blog application written in asp.net and C#. It can be easily integrated with your current website to provide the blog (writing articles) facility to your website users. You can go throught he BlogEngine website to know about the featrues it supports. [More]

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Creating your custom pages is a common requirment if you are integrating BlogEngine.net with your existing website. Also, to maintain the same look and feel as provided by BlogEngine theme, you need to use the master pages as defined in BlogEngine theme. [More]

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This is a problem since your default BlogEngineDotNet or the category list page would have more than one post but the like button would only store the URL of the default or category page.

The solution to pass the respective post's URL to the facebook like button is to specify the URL at runtime [More]