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The Community Blogging system will allow you to create a list of members with a Blog. Based on authorization the member can link to an external Blog, or create a hosted Blog. The administrator can define which usergroups can See, Create, Create hosted and Moderate the Blogs.

Current and Planned Features:

- Entry comments(日志评论)
- Users can customize the look of the Blog (viewmode, blocksposition, custom content blocks)(可自定义blog外观，包括显示模式、区块位置、内容区块)
- Calendar, Last entries content blocks (which the user can enable/disable).(日历、最近日志区块，用户可设置显示或屏蔽)
- Custom Content Blocks (users can add content blocks containing user defined content)(可自定义内容区块，用户可以增加自定义内容的区块)
- Posting entries as draft to be published later.(草稿)
- Assign Moderators to the Blogging system.(分派版主)
- Search the Blog Entries on keywords.(关键词搜索)
- View the history of the Blog.(查看过往的日志记录)
- Locking of Entries.(锁定日志)
- Private Blogs (only the Blog owner can see it).(私人blog，只供blog作者查阅)
- RSS feeds.(RSS馈送)
- Categories (allow the user to define categories and asign entries to them; the user can filter on a category)(栏目分类，允许用户将日志指定到自定义的分类栏目，并且可以按类查阅)
- About me feature (it will display some member information with statistics and content the member defined)(关于我功能，显示作者的信息和统计资讯)

The Community Blog plugin will be a low-cost addition to Invision Power Board license holders. We will also be offering IPS Forum Hosting customers the option of adding the Blog software to their hosted communities.

We expect the first public release to be available by mid-November 2004. Keep an eye out for updates until then!