news portal like thetelegraph.com

1. News Upload in different category - Easy uploading of news item directly from the user computer - View upload process as it happens - Edit news at anytime, change the title, description and tags - Delete news at anytime allowing management of files - Allow or disallow news comments 2. Photos/Images (This feature can easily be disabled) - Create a new photo album - Upload photos images - Bulk upload of photos (up to 3 at a time) 3. Blogs (This feature can easily be disabled) - Create a new blog - Full editing features including wysiwyg editor 4. Member Profile - Members can edit their personal profile including adding a picture - Members will have a unique url for their profile page - Fully customizable profile page (background images, colors, styles etc)* 5. Messaging - Full featured internal email systems for member communication 6. Friends - Easily invite more friends to join them on the network - Share news with friends - Delete or add friends at anytime 7. Comments System - Add comments to news - Add comments to blogs - Add comments to images - Add comments to profile pages 8. Other features Full standards compliance: We have gone to great lengths to make sure every bit of the code is in full compliance with the standards of the W3C. This is important not only for interoperability with today's browser but also for forward compatibility with the tools of the next generation. Your web site is a beautiful thing, and you should demand nothing less. No rebuilding: Changes you make to your templates or entries are reflected immediately on your site, with no need for regenerating static pages. Cross-blog communication tools: It is fully supports both the Trackback and Pingback standards, and we are committed to supporting future standards as they develop. Comments: Visitors to your site can leave comments on individual entries, and through Trackback or Pingback can comment on their own site. You can enable or disable comments on a per-post basis. Spam protection: Out of the box Word Press comes with very robust tools such as an integrated blacklist and open proxy checker to manage and eliminate comment spam on your blog, and there is also a rich array of plug-in that can take this functionality a step further. Full user registration: It has a built-in user registration system that (if you choose) can allow peoples to register and maintain profiles and leave authenticated comments on your blog. You can optionally close comments for non-registered users. There are also plug-in that hide posts from lower level users. Password Protected Posts: You can give passwords to individual posts to hide them from the public. You can also have private posts which are viewable only by their author. Easy Importing: We currently have importers for Movable Type, Textpattern, Greymatter, Blogger, and b2. Work on importers for Nucleus and pMachine are under way. Workflow: You can have types of users that can only post drafts not publish to the front page. Typographical niceties: It uses the Texturize engine to intelligently convert plain ASCII into typographically correct XHTML entities. This includes quotes, apostrophes, ellipses, em and en dashes, multiplication symbols, and ampersands. For information about the proper use of such entities see Peter Sheerin's article The Trouble With Em 'n En. Intelligent text formatting: If you've dealt with systems that convert new lines to line breaks before you know why they have a bad name: if you have any sort of HTML they butcher it by putting tags after every new line indiscriminately, breaking your formatting and validation. Our function for this intelligently avoids places where you already have breaks and block-level HTML tags, so you can leave it on without worrying about it breaking your code. Multiple authors: Its highly advanced user system allows up to 10 levels of users, with different levels having different (and configurable) privileges with regard to