Communifire, our social networking platform in ASP. NET, contains a ton of functionality…including forums, events, friending, article management, internal messaging, photo sharing, video sharing, blogs, and much more. In addition to the functionality I just briefly listed out, Communifire contains a very extensive and feature rich blogging system. Here is a rundown of a list that I wrote up to share those features with you…
Communifire Blog features
Communifire Blogs is a simple, yet powerful blogging system designed to increase the interaction between the community members and engage your readers and customers.
Publishing features
- Multi-author support – Every user in the community gets a blog to publish their content and thoughts on for the community to read.
- RSS feeds for all blogs – Each blog is syndicated using RSS / XML feeds. Your users can subscribe to your RSS Feeds using their feed readers to stay updated when new posts are made.
- Advanced commenting system – Comments are a very important aspect of a blog. Strike up conversation and allow readers to comment on all blog posts. Add unlimited comments to each blog post. Blog authors can enable or disable comments, can mark comments as spam, or delete them using a very user friendly interface. Administrators have full control of how the comments are managed; choosing whether they are automatically published or you can choose to moderate them before appearing publically.
- WYSIWYG Editor – The article manager contains one of the most well known and most used rich text editors. There is no need to know HTML to format your articles – just use the built in editor.
Images, Media, Files
- Upload attachments – Upload an unlimited number of images or file attachments to each blog post. You can display the images anywhere within your blog posts.
- Image resizing – You set the size of the images that are uploaded. If the images exceed the size you set, they will be automatically resized.
- Image thumbnails – Whenever you upload an image, a thumbnail is automatically generated for you to display as teaser image next to your blog post title.
- Embed videos – Easily embed YouTube, MySpace, Google, or any other types of videos into your articles. It’s as easy as copying and pasting the video code into your article.
Public features
- Blog homepage – The blog homepage shows a list of all user blogs, a list of blog archives by month, and a list of the most recently published posts. Each post item contains an excerpt of the post and also a teaser image that you are able to upload when publishing. Clicking on a user filters the list of blog posts to display only those published by that user. Clicking on a blog archive month displays only those blog posts published during that month. You can also filter the blog posts per user and per monthly archive.
- Blog post page – The blog post page displays an individual blog post, the bio of the user who made the posting, and provides a number of different functionalities to benefit the end user, including:
- Print – The print option displays a printer friendly version of the post, making it simple for your customer to print your blog posts.
- Email / Share with a friend – This option allows your readers to forward blog posts to their friends or colleagues by email. The emails that are entered are automatically saved to a database so you know where your blog posts are being distributed.
- Ratings – Get instant feedback on blog posts. Members of your community can rate each blog post indicating whether they found the post helpful or not. Ratings help to improve content quality, remove confusing content, and filter the wheat from the chafe.
- Change text size - Users can conveniently use this feature to increase the text size of the blog post for easier reading. User can increase or decrease the text size three times.
- Latest blog posts – The sidebar contains a list of the users’ latest blog posts as well as a list of the latest blog posts made by the entire community. This helps to increase readership and the time spent on the website by providing options for users to read additional content.
Search engine optimization features
- SEO optimized out of the box – We spent a great deal of time optimizing the layout of the HTML and using the proper HTML tags to help search engines index and understand your content.
- Keyword friendly URL’s – Create keyword friendly URL’s for your blog posts. URL’s that contain keywords are often given higher rankings in search results because they appear to be more relevant.
- Customizable H1 tag – You can create a custom H1 tag for each blog posts you publish. H1 tags are known as heading tags that describe the content on the page. Search engines are known to give emphasis to those pages with highly relevant H1 tags.
- Custom Page Titles – You can create your own optimized page title for each blog post. Search engines have been known to favor pages with relevant page titles. If you don’t want to create a custom page title, the blog platform will use the post title.
- Custom Meta Descriptions and keywords – The blog platform allows you to create custom Meta description and keywords for each and every post that is published. Search engines often use the Meta description and keywords to describe your website within search results. Provide an optimized custom description to entice users to click through to your blog posts.
Administration features
- Moderation - With our advanced moderation tools, you can remove obscene or inappropriate content quickly and easily.
- Management - All blogs, posts, and comments can be fully managed by an administrator
Ok, so there you have it — a listing of (most of) the features of the blogging functionality in the Communifire Social Networking Platform. And if you’re interested in checking out a live social network running on Communifire, you can check out CodeAsp.Net – an ASP.NET Community. You can click here to see the blogs.
And to learn more about Communifire, click here to read the Social Networking Platform in ASP. NET.
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