A blogging engine based on HTML5 and ASP.NET.
Live demo: http://miniblog.azurewebsites.net/
Username: demo
Password: demo
A minimal, yet full featured blog engine using ASP.NET Razor Web Pages. Perfect for the blogger who wants to selfhost a blog.
- Best-in-class performance
- Gets a perfect score of 100/100 on Google Page Speed
- Uses CDN for Bootstrap and jQuery in release mode (debug="false")
- Windows Live Writer (WLW) support
- Optimized for WLW
- Assumes WLW is the main way to write posts
- You don't have to use WLW (but you should)
- RSS and ATOM feeds
- Schedule posts to be published on a future date
- SEO optimized
- Uses HTML 5 microdata to add semantic meaning
- Support for robots.txt and sitemap.xml
- Theming support
- Based on Bootstrap themes. Makes it easy to customize your blog
- Comes with a one-column and a two-column theme
- No database required
- Uses the same XML format as BlogEngine.NET
- Move your existing blog to MiniBlog using MiniBlog Formatter
- Inline editing of blog posts
- Comments support
- Gravatar support
- Can easily be replaced by 3rd-party commenting system
- Drag 'n drop images to upload
- Automatically optimizes uploaded images
- Uses latest technologies
- OpenGraph enabled
- Based on jQuery and Bootstrap
- Best-in-class accessibility
- Mobile friendly
- Works on any host including Windows Azure Websites
7 years have passed since I started the BlogEngine.NET project. It was using cutting edge technology for its time and quickly became the most popular blogging platform using ASP.NET.
The MiniBlog was born as a test to see what a modern blog engine could look like today with the latest ASP.NET and HTML 5 technologies. Just like with BlogEngine.NET, the goal was to see how small and simple such a blog engine could be.
This is the result.