Blogifier is a single-user personal blog written in ASP.NET Core MVC and Blazor. It is small, easy to use and highly customizable via theming engine and Blazor components.

If you are looking for a multi-user Angular version of Blogifier, please find it under Blogifier.SPA repository. Both versions are fully supported.

• Windows, Mac or Linux
• ASP.NET Core 3.1
• Visual Studio 2019, VS Code or other code editor (Atom, Sublime etc)
• SQLite by default, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL and MySQL out of the box, EF compatible databases should work

1. Clone or download source code
2. Run application in Visual Studio or using your code editor
3. Use admin/admin to log in

Uses Markdown editor with built-in support for common functionality to make writing posts easy and productive process.

1. File upload - support for file and image upload with a click of a button
2. HTML5 video/audio tags - upload and playback video and audio, YouTube video playback
3. Thumbnail generation - uploading large image automatically generates corresponding image thumbnail

1. Built-in themes - there are number of themes to choose ranging from simple and minimalistic to media-rich and sophisticated and list is growing.
2. Social buttons - no programming required, just add your social accounts
3. Themes are easy to adopt or build from scratch with minimal effort

Visitors can subscribe to the blog to be notified on new publications by email via newsletter (requires SendGrid email account)

Uses excellent intuitive JSON localizer with number of preset languages. If your language is missing it can be easily added to the list

Supports standard RSS syndication feed

Quick content search across the blog posts

Using Disqus as a commenting service, here are instructions on how to setup and configure

Google Analytics can be added to the site by the blogger as described in the documentation

You can host your blog on Windows or Lunux server, use SQLite, SQL Server, MySQL or PostgreSQL databases out of the box. Even if you don't care about technology used, flexibility in hosting helps save money and make many decisions easier.

There are two applications currently supported -

1. Main blogifier application is MVC-based with Blazor admin (this repository)
2. SPA application with Angular front-end on top of ASP.NET Core web APIs

Blogifier publishes Blogifier.Core shared library to the Nuget gallery. This package is used by Blogifier.SPA and can be used by any other application.

The demo site is a playground to check out Blogifier features. You can write and publish posts, upload files and test application before install.

The developer's blog.