A few weeks ago I came across a blog post from Mitchel Sellers about securing DotNetNuke passwords in DNN. The gist of it is as follows: You do...

When Ian and I had this idea of showcasing awesome work within DotNetNuke community to the world, we went out and looked for some good domain names. We came to a decision to pick dnnGallery as it is straightforward and self-explained enough. However, the .com domain wasn’t available for us at that time. It’s been a few years since we launched the site it’s been quite well received. We're all been busy but managed to get time to devote to this site and maintain content and submissions that are va...

 DotNetNuke skinning isn’t easy as long as you figure out exactly how CSS files from the framework get loaded at runtime. I remember when I first started creating skins, I had to spend a tremendous amount of time fine tuning the details such as typography, padding, margin, and so on. My job became so much easier when I found out the secret is understanding DotNetNuke CSS precedence. There are many CSS files being loaded on a page when a user lands on your site. Depending on how your site i...

As of yesterday DotNetNuke released version 5.6.1 to public that contains 2 major security fixes. Cathal Connolly, DotNetNuke Security Core Team member, has published the latest security bulletin today on dotnetnuke.com to explain the details. The two critical security fixes are ‘edit level users have admin rights to module’ and ‘unauthenticated user can install/uninstall modules’. If your website isn’t currently on DotNetNuke 5 and above, you don’t have to worry about upgrading. For sites that...

Hope you have a solid plan for the Labor Day Weekend already. If not, go ahead and turn off your computer and/or any mobile devices that can receive Facebook or Twitter updates! But wait, enjoy this week's roundup before you leave for the day!

Happy Friday everyone! This is the first of many community round-up posts that we'll be doing. Our intent is to quickly highlight the happenings in the community for those who may have missed them throughout the week. This week features some stuff from last week as well, but in general they are "recent announcements." If we missed anything in this post, please feel free to add a comment below.In the future, if you have any relevant links or topics that you think we should be aware of, please co...