metaPost Features
- Copy and paste images into your DotNetNuke entries!
- Full style and theme integration so you see the theme and layout of your site as you write your entry.
- Extensible provider (plug-in) infrastructure.
- Support for parent and child portals
- No configuration necessary! Just install in DotNetNuke and point Windows Live Writer at your portal.
- No security configuration necessary.
- See it in action by selecting a video below.
- Social Media Optimization (SMO) using Add This bookmark widget.
- Make your entry into an image gallery with drag, drop and publish!
Click an image below and use your arrow keys to see it in action!
New! - Easily add tabbed content to DotNetNuke. To show this feature in action, we've wrapped our other new features in tabs below:
NEW! - Have you ever wanted to add a side thought to your content? Now it's easier than ever with the Web 2.0 styled
popup footnotes1.
NEW! - We've tried to make it as fun and easy as possible to add tabbed content. Check out
this quick how-to video You need to upgrade your Flash Player
to see this feature in action.
NEW! - Adding Flash files is now easier than ever. Do you have a screencast that you want to show in a Web 2.0 styled expandable window? Just create a normal URL linking to the swf file and set the rel attribute (Advanced tab in Windows Live Writer) to mp,width:nnn,height:mmm, where nnn is the width and mmm is the height in pixels of your video.
metaPost Professional Edition Released
Custom footers and Web 2.0 styled image expansion are two of our most popular reasons to upgrade to the Professional Edition of metaPost. Check out this post in our blog to see image expansion in action. The best part, it's completely automatic. No configuration is necessary on your part. Just cut and paste or drag and drop images into your post and metaPost handles the rest.
Feel free to watch one of the videos below to see the metaPost Professional Features in action. Also, here are the steps that you will need to follow if you want to access the administrative interface for the metaPost module:
- Install the module in any page, preferably a page reserved for admin access to modules.
- While logged in with a superuser account, click on Administration (Or equivalent localized version) in the Module Actions menu.
- Manage portal access through the manage portals link
- Manage provider data such as image upload path and footer template from manage providers link.
If you have questions or issues, hop on over to the support forums and create a thread.
Also, please let us know what features you would like to see in future editions!
Resources
Documentation
Videos
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Short Introduction You need to upgrade your Flash Player
- For those who just want to see how easy it is to install metaPost and post content from Windows Live Writer to DotNetNuke using one of the supported metaPost providers. -
New Feature! - Auto Tabs You need to upgrade your Flash Player
- Now you can add tabbed content to DotNetNuke through metaPost. Check out this video for a quick lesson in adding tabs. -
metaPost Professional Edition You need to upgrade your Flash Player
- See how easy it is to manage portals and providers using the administrative interface available in the Professional Edition. Also see short introduction for a few of the Web 2.0 styled features available with the Professional edition (Auto Link Expander and Auto Footnote Expander).
Provider Videos
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Text/HTML Provider You need to upgrade your Flash Player
- Short video showing how to configure the Text/HTML metaPost provider. -
FAQs Provider You need to upgrade your Flash Player
- short video showing how to connect with and use the FAQs metaPost provider. -
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Language Packs
Pointing Windows Live Writer to Your Module
With your blog configured,
- Open Windows Live Writer and select the Weblog menu
- Select the Add Weblog Account... submenu
- Select 'Another weblog service' and click Next.
- Enter the URL to the root of the site containing your blog in the Weblog Homepage URL textbox (eg. http://www.itcrossing.com). Update from Chad Voller: Chad ran into problems here which I wasn't able to duplicate, but he came up with a workaround for anyone else running into the same issue. If authentication fails at this point, then enter http://www.yourdomain.com/metapost.ashx. Thanks for the help with this Chad!
- Enter the DotNetNuke username and password which has been associated with a blog from the DotNetNuke blog module and click Next.
- In the dropdown labeled 'Type of weblog that you are using' choose Metaweblog API.
- For the remote posting URL, enter the URL you entered previously followed by /metaPost.ashx (eg. http://www.itcrossing.com/metaPost.ashx) and click Next. Note for connecting with providers other than the blog module provider,there are two parameters that can be passed:
- key - use this to specify the friendly name of the module to which you would like to connect.
- sid - currently only used with the Text/HTML provider, the sid parameter (short for style id) is used to pass an id used for style detection. With the Text/HTML provider, you will pass the module id. With the Text/HTML provider, the sid needs to correspond to the module id of a Text/HTML module that exists on the home page of the site. Be sure to disable caching before you click Next.
- eg. http://www.yourdomain.com/metapost.ashx?key=text/html&sid=123
- An 'Allow Writer to Create a Temporary Post' dialog will appear. You can click either Yes or No to this dialog. Clicking yes will allow you to see the styles of your site while editing content with Windows Live Writer.
- That's it! Happy blogging with your DNN blog module.
Current Providers
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222Popup Footnotes are a breeze to add while you are publishing your content from Windows Live Writer. You can add images and any HTML that is acceptable in the module to which you're publishing. This feature opens up some exciting possibilities for the content you publish to your site. You can use this feature to create quick custom image galleries right within your post.
Click here or click on the image to the left for an example.