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Content from external services

From Elgg Documentation

[edit] Posting Images to Elgg from Flickr

  1. Make sure you're logged in to Flickr, and go to the add blog page.
  2. Choose 'MetaWeblogAPI enabled blog' from the drop-down list, click 'next'.
  3. Enter http://elgg.net/_rpc/RPC2.php in the API Endpoint box, and your elgg username and password in the other boxes. Click next.
  4. If you're given a choice of weblogs, choose the one you want to post to (normally Your Name :: Weblog).
  5. Finally, choose whether or not you want Flickr to store your password and give the weblog a name memorable to yourself (I just called mine Elgg to differentiate from my personal weblog). The weblog URL should automatically be filled in correctly. Click 'all done', and the setup is finished!
  6. To actually blog a photo, go to the photo's page and click the 'blog this' button above the picture. From there on it's very straightforward; just follow the instructions, enter any text you want to accompany the photo, and submit!

Note: the same settings (API endpoint and MetaWeblogAPI protocol) are also applicable to blogging clients such as w.Bloggar and Performancing, as well as applications like Google Docs.

[edit] Populating an Elgg blog with external content

  1. Click on Your Resources
  2. Now you need to subscribe to the particluar feed you want to populate your blog
  3. Once you have subsribed the feed will appear under Resource name
  4. If the feed you are subscribing to contains tags (such as flickr) you can filter the content based on tags, just choose the tag(s) that you want to appear in your blog - if you use the tag Vancouver this would populate your blog with only those images from your flickr account that were tagged with Vancouver- if you don't filter by tag all content will populate your blog
  5. Check the checkbox
  6. Click update

The next time Elgg grabs content from this feed, your blog will be populated with any new content.

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