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Have you used the User Defined Table Module?
I must say a few things about the User Defined Table (UDT) module for DotNetNuke, I have seen it, but hardly ever used it. I had a site that was using it that I needed to make some changes to tonight, I've been putting off the changes because I was afraid...
DotNetNuke Tip: Changing Who Administrator Emails are From
This will be a quick DotNetNuke Tip, but a worthwhile one nonetheless! I've seen this question asked tons of times, and even got an email from someone this weekend asking the very same thing. "Where do you change the “from” email address...
How to get a dynamic Copyright in your DotNetNuke Portal
Here's a quick DotNetNuke Tip. If you want to have your Copyright statement that will appear in the DNN Copyright token (skinobject) of a skin you can do the following. Edit your Portal's settings, in the copyright section remove the copyright statement...
Changes coming to DotNetNuke
A few notable blog posts over on DotNetNuke.com this past week. 1. Cathal posted about a change for DNN 5 (Cambrian) that will remove the ability for administrators to upload skins to their portals, only host users will be able to do so. This has received...
DotNetNuke Info: The difference between Parent and Child portals
So, in training classes I always get the question "What is the difference between parent and child portals?" Well, the Professional DotNetNuke 4 book defines the two pretty well, but me being a programmer and lazy, I wanted to come up with a more simple...
DotNetNuke 4.8.4 Released
To go along with my earlier post about DNN today, 4.8.4 has been released due to some minor security issues that were found after the 4.8.3 release shipped. You can get information about the security fixes via Cathal's blog post . Now, I'm off to upgrade...
A new way to Upgrade DotNetNuke
If you've ever had me as an instructor for a DotNetNuke class , or heard me present at a user group or conference you've likely heard me say that I always use the DotNetNuke Install package when performing upgrades on my DNN sites. I rarely use the Upgrade...
DotNetNuke Tip: Production using SSL, development not using SSL
Earlier this year I was doing some work on a website of mine that runs on DNN, and has SSL enabled. I copied the database and file system, and set these up on my development machine, Vista Ultimate. I ran into a problem though, I couldn't actually get...
DotNetNuke 4.8.1 Released
DNN 04.08.01 released today! Want to know what changed? Well here's a list I pulled from Gemini RSS Bug DNN-6651 Syndication / RSS Not Handling Guid Correctly Installation / Upgrade Bug DNN-6310 Turkish-I problem in database scripts Dependencies Bug DNN...
When to upgrade your DotNetNuke website!
Well, the 4.8.0 release of DotNetNuke came out today, and some people are having some problems, so I figured I'd take the time to put together what I hope will be a short post with my professional opinion of how you should handle DNN upgrades. Here are...
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