Update (03/05/2008): CKS:EBE 2.0 Final Release is now available!Update:
CKS:EBE 2.0 Beta 2 has been released!
The Community Kit for SharePoint: Enhanced Blog Edition is designed to enhance and extend the functionality of the built-in blog feature in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. The following enhancements are included in the
CKS:EBE 2.0 Beta 1 release:
- Easily deployable solution file (.WSP) with Features that can be activivated or deactivated
- Modular Theme Framework ("MTF") with optional "night time" autoswitch themelet
- Protection for anonymous access to 'System Pages'. This means anonymous users cannot access /lists/.aspx, /forms/.aspx, /_layouts/*.aspx
- MetaBlogApi working a bit better...You will need to create a Picture/Document library called Media for it to upload images.
- Support for Akismet comment spam detection
- Multiple categories/tags can be mapped to each blog entry/post
- Anonymous comments can be moderated
- Name and URL fields in comments
- Friendly URL ("FURL") for the blog's posts
- Friendly URL for the blog's RSS feed
- Support for CKS:TagCloud web part (being released separately)
- Configurable settings
- Enable content caching
- Enable post triming (Vince, can you add a number field to set the # of characters?)
- Lock down system pages
- Akismet key
- Set specific blog theme (as the default)
- Custom RSS feed (e.g. from Feedburner)
- Enable Theme Selector (so users can select their own theme)
- Redirect the Post.aspx page (Vince, what's this for?)
Take a look at the existing POC/demo site at http://cks.wssblogs.com.DocumentationCKS:EBE 2.0 Beta 2 FeaturesTeam Meetings