WordPress VIP has announced its latest enhancement to their widely-used and popular Liveblog Add-On that will give bloggers the comfort of using WordPress. It recently added rich text editing controls which allows users to easily add liveblog updates with simple text formatting that include bolds, italics and links by just hitting a single button. According to Paul Gibbs on his post, it’s now available for all the VIP Liveblog Add-on users and has gone live.

Liveblog Add-On has been running for over a year and since then, many users have been using it and has been well-received by the VIPs according to its report.

The latest move to enhance it further is actually a collaboration work between WordPress.com VIP and X-Team, which is one of the newest Featured Partner of Liveblog.

Here are the features of Liveblog:

• You get to post your updates right from the front-end of your site, so there’s no need to use /wp-admin dashboard.

• Your viewers of your Liveblog get the latest entries posted automatically without refreshing your browser.

• Authors in your site can easily drag-and-drop the photos right into the Liveblog area without needing to navigate to separate browser windows.

• You can add easily the Liveblog updates with simple text formatting like bold, italic, underline, links and more.

• No need for a separate site that is dedicated to liveblogging, every post can be in there even the previous posts.

• Readers can easily catch up with your site whenever they want to because it’s already archived.

Source: http://vip.wordpress.com/2013/09/13/liveblog-addon-rich-text-enhancements/