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
Fixes*Invalid post ID from referring URLs
*Improved logging for trackbacks and pingbacks
*If a trackback is not successful, will try pingback
*Fixed a bug in Pingback URL detection
*TagCloud design fixed
*Categories list has been tuned
*Selected theme is now stored in a cookie rather than session
*Fixed posts listing by month issue
*Fixed an issue with RSS feed/Category issue
*Fixed an issue where MetaBlog API didn't use Published Date
2.0 Features included in 3.0 Theming*Modular Theme Framework (MTF) - no need to wrestle with the default blog master page - start from the HTML you want and simply insert the blog content via XSL.
*SEO Friendly URL's - blog post URL's that look like /archive/2007/08/25/sharepoint-chart-tool.aspx instead of /Lists/Posts/ViewPost.aspx?ID=37
*5 very cool themes to use as-is, or to get you started on the development of your own including dynamic per-post links (e.g. Digg this), tag cloud, etc. Check them out here
Linkbacks (aka Trackbacks)*Send linkbacks to other blog posts you are linking to in your EBE blog post (these show up as trackbacks on the other blog)
*Receive linkbacks from other blogs who are posting about your blog post (these show up as trackbacks on your EBE blog)
Spam control*Akismet integration to detect comment spam
*CAPTCHA to help block comment spam at the source
*Option to automatically delete spam to recycle bin
*Option to automatically approve spam-free comments
RSS*Custom RSS link (e.g. http://feeds.feedburner.com/myblog)
*Post trimming (only a portion of post is sent via RSS)
*Specify RSS feed item count
*Category specific feeds (e.g. /rss.xml?cat=coolstuff)
*Validates W3C
Miscellaneous *Securing of system pages (e.g. so anonymous users can't browse your lists and libraries using SharePoint UI)
*Metaweblog API to support Windows Live Writer and migration tools.
*Client Date/Time - displays date/time in time zone of user instead of server
The EBE 3.0 would not have been possible without the generous contribution of time from the following project members:
Yvonne Harryman (PM)Matthew McDermot (PM)Dan Lewis (QA; Documentation)René Hézser (Developer)Vince Rothwell (Developer)Heather Waterman (Developer)Gaetan Bouveret (Developer)Nadeem Mitha (Developer)Gary Bushey (QA)Future release info can be found at:
CKS-EBE codeplex site or
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