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GeneralBlogEngine.net : Where you been? (WordPress, see ya) Pin
raddevus27-Nov-16 5:42
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I decided to test out BlogEngine.net (instead of WordPress (WP)) on my site since WP was so terribly slow.

I was also annoyed at WP's lack of nice post editor.
BlogEngine.net took me a few extra minutes to set up, but it has a great post editor and it is much faster than WP (at my host anyways).

Plus, I'm using a DigitalOcean droplet to keep the (ASP.NET MVC) site always preloaded so it is much faster.

With WP PHP it would take at least 7-10 seconds before you see anything on the site.
Now, with BlogEngine.net it is under 1-2 seconds.
And with the added benefit of the nicer post editor.

Edit
After working to get BlogEngine.net set up and customized on my site I thought I might add a few notes now.
Challenges
1. I was frustrated for a bit because none of my posts would show up. I couldn't find any documentation on it. Then I saw under the Settings there was a "server time offset" item.
Apparently blogengine.net does not show posts until the server has hit the "published time".
Since my server time was off by 2 hours I actually needed to offset the time by two hours to get them to show up immediately. That is a very odd and esoteric piece of info.
2. I could not find where to edit the default social links which are part of the standard theme. They all linked to blogengine instead of my twitter, google+ etc. Finally, worked my way through the actual files on my server and found it in a site.master file and I manually edited them.
There doesn't seem to be any place to edit those in the blogengine admin pages.

The Great Stuff
After that, everything is easy.
1. A much better post editor. it is fantastic. It looks like the following:Post Editor at DNBE[^]

I was shocked that the WordPress editor was so clunky and didn't allow me to set headers or any styles easily. BlogEngine makes all of that really easy. Actually, probably about the easy post creation tool there is out there.
2. You can easily edit your site by adding pages and typing them up in the editor, then the pages show up on the main menu.

This is nice software for quick and easy blogging. You really may want to take a look at it if you have had the same issues I have with WP.
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GeneralMicrosoft! Leave it out, will you? Pin
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