I am really liking the update to the BlogEngine.Net platform. There are several new features but my absolute is the Comment Management and Comment Spam Filtering feature. I get a ton of comment spam - you know, those stupid comments like, “Hi, interesting post. I have been pondering this issue,so thanks for posting. I will visit your blog again” or This is by far one of my favorite updates you have done, I don't agree on some points but you are good blogger for sure.” These aren’t real comments. Such comments are used to increase search engine ranking to the URL provided with the comment. You can read about comment spam here. Needless to say, I am thrilled that BlogEngine.Net has provided me a way to deal with this. According to their website:
Comments across all posts can be viewed, edited, deleted or approved in one convenient area. Comments can still be manually moderated, but now moderation can be automated by running comments thru remote or local comment spam validation services.
There are other new features. You can see a list of them here.
The update was relatively easy. Most of the pain was getting the site to run under IIS 7 on my local machine so that I could test the update. Anyway, it required a few changes to my Settings.ini file, my theme’s .css file and deleting a directory that is no longer needed. That said, it was a smooth update. By the way, there is a great post on dealing with the IIS 7 issues here.
Happy blogging!