Bloggy

Why another blog engine?

It's always time to start a new blog engine

That's the retweet from Mads Kristensen @madskristensen after I tweeted him on 7 May 2016 to start a new blog engine using the latest and greates technologies. Unfortunately he don't have a time!! I'm sure that he is busy with building a new cool extensions for Visual Studio as usual :)

I take the initiative to continue with what he built last few years in both BlogEngine & MiniBlog, so I decide to build a new blog engine called bloggy using the new ASP.NET Core.

I'm sure this is a great lesson for me to use almost the things that I know and love in ASP.NET Core to build such application.

Features

• Performance
  • Response Compression
  • Response Caching
  • Support CDN for scripts & styles in Production Environment
• Authentication
  • Cookie-based authentication
  • Social Media authentication
• Configuration
  • Almost the blog settings are configurable in appsettings.json
• Themable
  • Easy to create and customize the themes
  • The conjunction with localization make it easy to support different layouts LTR & RTL
  • Comes with light & black theme
• Localization
  • Support both English & Arabic out of the box
  • Url Culture Provider
• Schedule posts to be published on a future date
• Comments
  • Gravatar support
  • reCaptcha support
  • Comment moderation
  • Live preview on commenting
• Data Store
  • Shipped with InMemory (for Testing) & SQLite, but you can easily switch to SQL Server or any EntityFramework Database Provider
• Web Feeds
  • RSS
  • ATOM
• Markdown support as first class citizen
• Mobile friendly
• Works on Azure