After you have installed EasyBlog, you have to configure your blog to match your requirements and branding. Here we will show you to configure the basics settings for your blog.

Blog title and description

Now go to Settings tab in your EasyBlog configuration panel, and configure at least the two settings listed below.

1. Global blog title.
   This is your blog title, will be used in most of your blog pages, except when users view blog posts and bloggers page.
2. Global blog description.
   The description of your blog. Same with global blog title, the description you set here will be used in most of your blog pages, except when users view blog posts and bloggers page.

ACL (Access Control Lists)

Our component comes with advanced ACL that can control actions for specific user groups and users. You can set who can write blog posts, publish the posts, create tags, create categories, and many more. Now why don’t we set some basic permission to your user groups? Let’s go to Components > EasyBlog > ACL to get started. This is the default ACL settings for your user groups.

With these settings, we can conclude that your blog allow all registered users to write blog posts. Let’s say you want to allow specific users to post blog. What you need to do is set all permissions to No.

Next, from the dropdown list on your right side, select Assigned. Now create New rule set, and click on Browse link to select the user. Now set the permissions, depends on your requirement. It's easy, and you can change the settings anytime you want. And don't forget, no harm trying :)

Write New Post

Now you are ready to write your first blog post. On your Joomla! site frontend, we have include one menu item to EasyBlog. You can edit this link later in your Joomla! menu manager. To write new post, select Write new entry from Dashboard submenu.

In your editor, you can see few tabs, Editor, Introtext, Permalink, Options, Tags and Trackback.

You can start writing your blog now. Happy blogging!