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An exhaustive list of Community Server resources

[Editor: This list is a work-in-progress. Please feel free to drop me a note at deving@3sharp.com if you've run across something I don't have listed.]

Documentation, Tutorials, and References

This category includes documentation, how-to guides, tutorials, references, and articles short or long about how to tweak, customize, or better use Community Server.

• [The Community Server Forums]
  Free forums with a lively and helpful community of users (registration required to post), hosted by Telligent, the fine folks who write and maintain Community Server.
  
• [The Community Server Documentation Wiki]
  A somewhat anemic and bland-looking wiki that is nevertheless the best source of documentation on Community Server at this time.
  
• [Stuart Celarier : Blog skin tutorial for Community Server]
  An excellent tutortial to blog skinning under Community Server. Currently at eight parts, hoping for more soon.
  
• [Making post views and comment handling more like .Text]
  Dave Burke tells us how to get some familiar behavior back.
  
• [How To: Single Blog/Gallery Site Configuration]
  Ken Robertson's how-to on configuring Community Server for a single blog and gallery.
  
• [Fix for RSS bugs]
  A couple of patches for some RSS bugs in Community Server 1.0.
  

Add-ons and Tools

This category includes components, patches, utilities, and add-ons to fix bugs and provide new features. Web controls are featured here unless they are part of a skin set.

• [Telligent's nGallery to CS:Gallery Conversion Tool]
  Name says it all.
  
• [Telligent's Automatic Blog/Gallery Creation Add-on]
  Auto-create a blog and gallery when a new user registers.
  
• [Telligent's NNTP Reader alpha release]
  Allows Community Server to read posts on NNTP servers.
  
• [Telligent's MetaBlog API Add-on]
  Allows Community Server to support the MetaBlog API.
  
• [Telligent's NNTP Server Beta 1]
  Time-limited beta version (expires on 18 April 2005) of an NNTP protocol implementation for Community Server.
  
• [Telligent's FTP Server Beta 1]
  Time-limited beta version (expires on 18 April 2005) of an FTP protocol implementation for Community Server.
  
• [Telligent's Forums 2.0 to CS 1.0 Upgrade Performance Fix]
  A performance fix to allow caching of the Anonymous User.
  
• [Jayson Knight's .Text to CS migration utility]
  An engine that uses DTS and is said to be very fast.
  
• [Websoft.CS.Controls 1.1.4]
  Rich Mercer's DisplayAdvancedWelcome control, including PM notification.
  
• [AggregatedNews control]
  Rich Mercer's AggregatedNews control.
  
• [NavigationMenu control]
  Rich Mercer's NavigationMenu control.
  
• [Austin Winstanley's CS Extras]
  Austin provides an updated web installer to allow the creation of additional communities in your existing CS database instance. Very slick!
  
• [Clearscreen CAPTCHA Control 1.4]
  Miguel Jimenez's anti-comment-spam control.
  
• [Dan Bartels's Community Server Controls]
  Dan includes an updated FreeTextBox wrapper, an Image Gallery, and a blog stats control.
  
• [CSverter]
  Converts .Text to Community Server, must be run as a web application.
  
• [DotText-CS-Converter 2.1]
  Nifty tool if you want your posts, categories, and comments to mgirate and keep the same ID numbers so your URLs don't change. The tool I used on my personal blog. Support galleries, but I had some problems with those. A great tool, despite the bugs.
  
• [Snitz-CS-Migrator]
  Converts forums from Snitz to Community Server 1.0.
  
• [Forums 2.0.1 to CS 1.0]
  Mario Sobral's Windows-based forums converter.
  
• [Cs.Converter for Forums]
  Carlo's modification of Telligent code for forums conversion.
  
• [Richard M Mathis's Dice Roller]
  A BBcode extension for the forums to allow random dice rolls in posts; useful for play-by-forum RPGs.

Skins

This category is a list of skins and themes for Community Server, both for the blog and forums/galleries.

• [LuxInterior 1.01]
  This is an update of one of the out-of-the-box blog skins for Community Server 1.0.
  
• [Posion Ivy 1.01]
  This is an update of one of the out-of-the-box blog skins for Community Server 1.0, with five color schemes to choose.
  
• [Iroha rev 1.2]
  Very nice blog skin with 15 color pallettes to choose from.
  
• [BlueCurve]
  Community Server blog skin port of a nice-looking .Text skin.
  
• [ClearScreen]
  Dan Bartels ported a .Text favorite by Miguel to a Community Server blog skin.
  
• [HabaHaba]
  Another .Text favorite, ported to a Community Server blog skin.
  

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