Blogs
Whether users want to share their thoughts on the latest political scandal, describe a recent vacation, or announce important news to their friends, Elgg's blog tool makes it quick and easy. All it takes is filling out the title, writing the body, and clicking on Publish.
The features available from the blog plugin and the other bundled plugins include:
WYSIWYG editor
Saving drafts
Preview a post
Tags and categories
Privacy control
Embedding photos or links to files
RSS feeds
Commenting
Liking blog posts
Tip
WYSIWYG
WYSIWYG stands for What You See Is What You Get. As you type and format the text on a WYSIWYG editor, you see what the text is going to look like when published. Without this kind of editor, you would need to mark up the text like this to achieve bold text:
<b>This is bold text</b> and this is
normal text.
With Elgg's editor it only takes a few clicks of the mouse to make text bold or italicized, create a link, or add a bulleted list. The editor is provided by the TinyMCE...
