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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

Bookmarks


Upon finding an interesting website, many people do two things: bookmark it with their web browser and email it to their friends. Social bookmarking improves on this by storing the bookmarks on the web where they are available from any browser, not just the one used to bookmark the site. These social bookmarking websites also make it easy to share the bookmarks with other people. Elgg's social bookmarking tool works the same way so that users can save and share bookmarks.

Features offered by the bookmarks plugin and other bundled plugins include:

  • Manual bookmark creation

  • Bookmark icon for internal pages

  • Bookmarklet

  • Tags and categories

  • Privacy control

  • Commenting

  • Liking

Adding a bookmark

On any of the bookmark list pages, there is a button in the top right of the content area for manually adding a bookmark. When creating a bookmark, a user enters a title, website address, an optional description of the site, any tags, and the access level. Before saving the bookmark, the user also has the...

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