CKS:EBE 3.0-Enhanced Blog Edition 3.0

Like many other blogs running SharePoint, my blog uses the EBE to add more functionality to the default SharePoint blog.

And since I am one of the developers of the EBE 3.0, I’m glad that we announce the release of the next release. Version 3 brings along many new features and improvements of already implemented features.

New Features
*Ability to theme wiki pages
*Ability to export post to PDF
*Localization (French, Spanish)
*Technorati Links from post categories
*Ability to bookmark post with Twitter
*Centralized Theming – Ability to create a theme library at the root and allow sub blog sites to use the common theme library.
*The ability to add an XML feed control
*Logging of pingbacks and trackback errors to SharePoint Logs directory
*Support of feature stapling
*Preliminary SharePoint 2010 Beta 3 compatible (with web.config edits)
*EBE caching and performance validation
*Performance increases for page loads less than <3 sec
Note: Some features are specific to certain themes

Enhancements
*Caching enhancements
*Added caching to XML controls
*Added enhanced XSL caching
*Ability to exclude the EBE HttpModule from specific paths
*Auto-Discovery for Live Writer metaweblog api
*Tweaks and enhancements to all themes
*Ability to sign-in after denied access to system pages
*Posts with future date are now hidden from posts list
*Browser title now matches post titles
*Comments are not added if they are spam

Read the release notes here: http://cks.codeplex.com/releases/view/28520