ArticleVsBlog

Articles & blogs are very similar features. Why choose one over the other?

In general,

• blogs: one person sharing their thoughts on a variety of subjects.
• Articles:many contributors posting information usually regrouped in topics.

With Tiki blogs, it is possible to restrict read (tiki_p_read_blog) and/or write (tiki_p_blog_post) to different groups whilst in articles, reading can be restricted by topics (tiki_p_topic_read).

Feature	Tiki-Articles	Tiki-Blog
Date of post	publication and expiration date selectable by user	automatic and can not be manually entered.
Trackback	no	yes
Send this article to a friend	no	yes
Comments	commments on individual articles	comments on blog post and/or comments on blog
Spellchecking	yes	yes
QuickTags	yes	yes
Can use wiki syntax	yes	yes
Can use html	yes, if activated	not working for me in Branch-1-9
Data saved in	?wiki format?	?html?
Multilingual	yes	no
Ranking	?	yes

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