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 Starting with DotNetNuke 5.3 there is a centralized Content store, together with the ability to apply Taxonomies (categories) to the content.  In simple terms, this lets you create tags and apply them to tabs (pages) and modules.

Recently I had a requirement to produce customized lists of pages in a DotNetNuke site that would be of interest to different groups of users.  I was able to do this in a straightforward manner by using this new feature.  This describes how I did it.

Someone asked me how to get the DotNetNuke USER skin object to display the UserName instead of the DisplayName.

This functionality is not part of the USER skin object, so I suggested that it would be be relatively easy to modify the USER to display UserName.  It turns out that it took me all of a half-hour or so to create a modified skin oject with the desired functionality.  Here is how I did it (and writing about it is going to take more time than the actual work!).  This skin object works for DotNetNuke version 5.x.

I had a new requirement yesterday:

• Display only the top level menu items in the traditional DotNetNuke menu
• On lower-level pages, display a vertical menu in the left column with links to children of the current page.