Blog engine for ASP.NET Core 3.1

A full-featured yet simple blog engine built on ASP.NET Core 3.1.

Please be aware that Mads is taking pull requests, but is not actively working on it.

Live demo: https://miniblogcore.azurewebsites.net/
Username: demo
Password: demo

Custom themes

In search for custom designed themes for MiniBlog.Core? Click here.

Features

• Windows/Open Live Writer support
• RSS and ATOM feeds
• User comments
• Search engine optimized
• All major browsers fully supported (IE 9+)
• Social media integration (Facebook, Twitter)
• Lazy loads images for better performance
• Easy YouTube video embedding
• Looks great when printed
• Works offline with use of Service Worker
• Follows best practices for web applications
  • See DareBoost report

Technical features

• High performance. Gets 100/100 points on Google PageSpeed Insights
  • Run PageSpeed Insights
• Speed Index < 1000
  • See WebPageTest
• Meets highest accessibility standards
  • Run accessibility validator
• W3C standards compliant
  • Run HTML validator
  • Run RSS validator
• Responsive web design
  • See mobile emulators
• Mobile friendly
  • Run Mobile-Friendly Test
• Schema.org support with HTML 5 Microdata
  • Run testing tool
• OpenGraph support for Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and more
  • Run Facebook validator
  • Check the tags
• Seach engine optimized
  • Run SEO Site Checkup
• Security HTTP headers set
  • Run security scan
• Uses the Azure Image Optimizer for superb image compression
• Uses a CDN Tag Helper to make it easy to serve the images from any CDN.

YouTube embeds

You can embed any youtube video by using the following syntax in the source of a blog post:

[youtube:ScXvuavqhzo]

ScXvuavqhzo is the ID of the YouTube video which can be found in any YouTube link looking this youtube.com/watch?v=ScXvuavqhzo

How to use

On the command line, install the template.

dotnet new --install MadsKristensen.AspNetCore.Miniblog

Then create it into any folder.

dotnet new miniblog

Then run it or open it in Visual Studio or your favorite code editor.

dotnet run

Credits

SVG icons by https://simpleicons.org/