Welcome to the WeBlog module

WeBlog is a blog module for Sitecore. Different versions of WeBlog support different versions of Sitecore, with WeBlog 2.x supporting Sitecore 7.x through to the latest WeBlog release supporting the latest versions of Sitecore. WeBlog is the successor to the EviBlog module.

Features

• Open Live Writer and Windows Live Writer integration (MetaWeblog API)
• Experience Editor support and custom WebEdit ribbon
• Wordpress Import
• CSS-based themes, with custom themes possible (three included)
• Various blog navigation components
• Comments (with author notification and optional approval workflow)
• Leverage Sitecore's robot detection for comment submission (no CAPTCHA necessary)
• Gravatar Support
• Social sharing through ShareThis or AddThis, and other Facebook and Twitter widgets
• Tagging and tagcloud
• RSS Feeds (Sitecore Integrated RSS)
• Multi-server (staged architecture) support
• Globalized labels and messaging (English, Danish, Dutch, German and Japanese translations provided)
• Akismet comment spam checker

Most importantly, WeBlog has been designed to allow you to easily integrate it into your existing content and design, and to allow you to customize its templates and layout to your project requirements.

Sites Running WeBlog

WeBlog is an open source module, so we have no idea who is using it. Some users over the years have informed us of their use and they've been added to the following list of sites running WeBlog.

Documentation

• Installation Guide
• Creating and setting up your blog
• Integrating WeBlog with your Sitecore Project
• Using Open Live Writer or Windows Live Writer
• Available Sidebar Components
• Running in a Multi-server Environment
• Using Gravatars
• Entry Sharing using AddThis or ShareThis
• Using the Dictionary to Change or Translate Labels
• Comment Workflow and Notifications
• Facebook and Twitter Social Components
• How to Import Wordpress Content
• Using Akismet
• Updating the Comment Creation Process
• Overriding Manager Classes
• Configuring how Entry Summaries are Generated
• Using different Entry, Category, and/or Comment templates (by Blog)

Also check out these two videos that will show you how to create and edit your blog.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe3Ppqkxhxw/ - Features of the blog and how to create a blog, post and change settings http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQUaXWTJyLs/ - Themes, RSS feeds, live writer integration

Legacy Documentation

The following is documentation for older versions of WeBlog that are no longer relevant to the latest release.

• How to use reCAPTCHA instead of Sitecore.Captcha, or disable CAPTCHA entirely