Comments on: MS Technology based blogging solution-BlogEngine.NET

By: Starting Business Blog

Starting Business Blog — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:28:38 +0000

very interesting blog site. thanks for sharing.

By: Kams(Kamrul)

Kams(Kamrul) — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 18:14:06 +0000

My apology. Sorry for misunderstanding. I just read your codeplex regarding that

By: Mads Kristensen

Mads Kristensen — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 17:55:14 +0000

You misunderstood. BlogEngine does have a MetaWeblog API and works perfectly with Windows Live Writer. We’re actually using a manifest file to make that experience even greater.

No, what I meant was using the MetaWeblog API of other blog platforms to import posts into BlogEngine when migrating. That way you can use BlogML, RSS and your existing blog’s MetaWeblog API as a means of export.

By: Kams(Kamrul)

Kams(Kamrul) — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 17:50:05 +0000

No problem at all Mads, it’s been a pleaser.

Metaweblog API is an excellent idea I forgot to mention earlier, this will also allow the desktop clients like windows live writer to be used with BlogENgine.NET.
Yep I do understand the prolonged development time, especially when it’s an open source project.

By: Mads Kristensen

Mads Kristensen — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 16:26:03 +0000

Thanks for you reply. We are planning to use the MetaWeblog API to retrieve old posts to import them into BlogEngine. That would cover almost every blog platform on the market. We just need to build it and it takes a lot of time. Thanks again.

By: Kams(Kamrul)

Kams(Kamrul) — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 07:47:51 +0000

Thanks Mads BlogEngine.NET deserves and could use that bit of spotlight/attention, I guess.

Regarding the Import/export limitation that I mentioned-
BlogML- It’s a new method which is supported by newer platforms (Most .NET blogging tools), but a lot older, yet popular platforms do not support that. You can see the list here http://blogml.org/, though i know it isn’t complete. So that means if someone wants’ to switch from those platforms to BlogEngine.NET(or vice versa) have only one option left-RSS/ATOM feed.

RSS/ATOM feed-Problem with this method is, a given time RSS/atom feed only hold the most recent posts/articles, most naturally not the static pages or past articles. So importing from RSS/ATOM feed is partial not complete.

Suggestion to improve- Perhaps some custom import as well as export options for popular blog platforms that do not support BlogML, a plain xml import/export option (Which is very useful and almost universal) would make it much easier.

By: Mads Kristensen

Mads Kristensen — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:59:00 +0000

I’m the founder of BlogEngine.NET and just wanted to thank you for a nice and objective post. I find the part about the limitations for the import/export very interesting, but I don’t quite understand why it is a limitation. You can make a full backup of your entire blog by exporting it to BlogML which is supported by more and more blog platforms. When you import, you can use either a BlogML file or a RSS/ATOM feed. How is that a limitation and what do you think we must do to improve it?