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Elgg 1.8 Social Networking

You're reading from   Elgg 1.8 Social Networking Create, customize, and deploy your very own social networking site with Elgg with this book and ebook

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849511308
Length 384 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Elgg 1.8 Social Networking
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Author of 1st edition
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Social Networking and Elgg FREE CHAPTER 2. Installing Elgg 3. A Tour of Your First Elgg Site 4. Sharing Content 5. Communities, Collaboration, and Conversation 6. Finding and Using Plugins 7. Creating Your First Plugin 8. Customization through Plugins 9. Theming Elgg 10. Moving to Production Developer's Quick Start Guide Views Catalog Index

Pages


The pages tool enables users to put together text and images to create simple web pages. It works like a wiki in that multiple people can edit the pages, but it does not require that users learn wiki syntax. It provides capabilities similar to a collaborative word processor.

The features provided by the pages plugin and the other plugins distributed with Elgg include the following:

  • WYSIWYG Editor

  • Embedding photos

  • Collaborative editing

  • Tags

  • Read and write access control

  • Nested pages

  • Commenting

  • Liking

Creating pages

When users create a new page, they are presented with a familiar editing interface. In fact, there is only one difference between the interfaces for writing a blog and writing a page: pages include both a read and a write access level control. The write access can be set to only group members if the page belongs to a group or a user could set the write access so that only friends can edit it. An example of creating a page is shown in the following screenshot:

When a user saves a new...

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