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If you are going to allow people to comment anonymously to your blog then inevitably you are going to attract the worst type of spammer scum. Luckily Community Server ’s spam blocker does a really effective job if configured properly. I wrote a post a while back about how to configure your spam...
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When you post a comment on a CS blog you normally receive a message telling you that the comment has been received, and may not be displayed right away. The default looks something like this: The default message is generated inside two nested divs and a table to get the desired effect. This post by Rich...
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I just found out that inserting a comment into your Jobs node in your CommunityServer.config file will cause your CS application to return an error and crash. I am comment happy – I leave them everywhere in my code to help me track changes to a default installation and remind me what I was thinking...
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For this tip I thought I would share a few of the tools and services that I use for skinning and modding Community Server , and for web development in general. Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition (Free) I haven’t gotten around to upgrading to Visual Studio 2005 yet, and I don’t do pirated...
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Rick Rezler from ASPNIX first alerted me to this issue , and I subsequently remembered that Jayson Knight had blogged about it as part of his CS tidbits , but it is important enough to repeat here as a tip: By default all CS jobs are set to run every minute. This is a mistake, and this default should...
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It is really easy to change the default date format in your blog skin. Open up your skin.config file and change the dateFormat = "f" parameter to the format that you want. For example: <Skin dateFormat = "dd MMMM yyyy"/> will give you "24 May 2006". <Skin dateFormat...
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A couple of users have reported frustration with “Skin Not Found” errors in Community Server when working with blog and gallery skins. This is a known issue and is apparently fixed in the upcoming 2.1 release. The problem is caused when you specify anything other than “default”...
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Way back at CS tip 04 I suggested turning the custom error page off while you are building and debugging your project. Once you have and launched your Community Server site it is a good idea to turn your custom error page back on and replace the content with something more pertinent to your site. The...
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Jayson Knight has started a new series of CS tidbits geared towards Site Admins. His fifth post in the series is a great one, and deals with two mods that will improve your SEO rankings. Really good stuff. protected virtual void jaysonBlog { : CS Tidbits #5: A Couple Of SEO Mods .
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This one has affected a few of my clients. When you create your link lists for your dedicated links page or in your sidebar, remember to enable the link categories and the links. When you create your initial categories it is easy to forget to tick the “enabled” box. If you are adding links...