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News Blog - For September 2009

1. AtomSite 1.3 BlogML Release

   This release of AtomSite 1.3 contains a new BlogML plugin that allows you to import and export from a BlogML file.  We've also improved the AtomSite Manager Tools area to support more import/export tools.

   Read More About BlogML Support

   We also brought back two of the previous themes and updated them for the new theming system.

   

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   Finally, many of the assets were updated to their most recent version. We've also tweaked the asset system to better support content delivery networks. You can specify external locations for any asset to improve download performance. We included the following CDN locations in the default CDN location settings.

   • Google jQuery CDN
   • Microsoft jQuery CDN
   • jQuery Tools CDN

   Read More About CDN Locations

   For a complete list of changes with this release see the release page on CodePlex.

   Download Release 1.3

   Posted by JarrettV on September 21 at 10:01 AM

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2. BlogML Support

   I've added support for importing data from a BlogML file.  The support was added to both the setup wizard and the AtomSite Manager Tools section.

   BlogML Wizard Support

   

    

   BlogML Import and Export Tools

   

   You can choose to import blog posts and articles into any collection that accepts entries.  You can also choose a collection that supports media for image attachments.  There are three modes of importing the data:

   Import Mode	Description
   New Mode	This mode is used during the setup wizard.  It will replace the existing, blog, pages, and media collections with the data in the BlogML file. This mode allows you to choose the collection name. It will also create an about page and blogroll page if there are no existing articles with these names.
   Merge Mode	This mode can be chosen from Import/Export tools page.  It will import the data in the BlogML file into existing collections only updating when the data doesn't already exist.
   Overwrite Mode	This mode can be chosen from Import/Export tools page. It will clear out any existing data before importing the data into the selected existing collections.

   The export tool will write entries into a BlogML file. However, attachments are not yet supported.

   Posted by JarrettV on September 13 at 7:57 PM

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