Last Year I wrote about the fact that it is a Great Option the use a WordPress Blog in a subdirectory of your Joomla installation the Improve the Search Engine Visibility of your Website.
Before that I looked at the WP-JD Component to Integrate a WordPress Blog inside Joomla itself.. which was not really that great, because of the Instability of the Component, on my site at least.
At Joomla.org it seems to work fine.. up to a point.
But know there is a (Please be aware of this if you want to try it) Beta MojoBlog RC 1.5 that is build upon the work that was done by Marko Schmuck for the JD-WP Component.
And I must say, I was impressed, first by the easy installation and the Back-end of the Component which give me an instant WordPress feeling and let me work on posting directly.
Almost all features work as expected!
Showing the Blog Items
Creating a Menu item for the Component gives you acces to the Front end.
This was the part that worried me the most, how would it look in the Joomla Template?
With JD-WP you could not integrate the layout of your site that easily, there where always some, not so nice looking features.
But you also want to show your most Recent Posts, You Blog Categories and If there are any, the Most Recent Comments..
Yes that can also be done, because Zerolight gives you some MojoBlog – Joomla WordPress Stuff .
Basically he takes apart the old WP-JD Sidebar and puts every function into a separate module.
Which is great then you can just use the parts you want, so great work on hos part as well.
Does it Work and what needs to be done
Yes, it works, and does a good job as well.
You can have your Multiple Categories per post, Track-back, Comments (even Askimet works) and Full RSS feeds via Feedburner if you want to.
There needs be some work done, like the terrible task of SEF URLs for the Posts, but more importantly the Title of the post in the HTML Title tag of the Joomla Page..
Possibly the use of Metatags Descriptions and Keywords as part of the search Engine Optimization.
But those items will be addressed at a later date I guess.
For know, it is already a great tool to use if you want the best Features of a WordPress Blog into your Joomla site!
Want to see some MojoBlog Examples?
Joomlify and my current live Blog on Hummerbie Search Engine Optimization (Great template integration without touching a thing..)
P.s. If I could only get my Forum registration activation email… but he, the site is also in Beta, but I am sure it will be fixed!
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This project looks very promising. Love both Joomla and Wordpress.
On the forum at Joomlify the MojoBlog guys say that they are working on SEF friendly URLs and Titles. They say its on top of the list to do. So maybe by Christmas??? Don’t know how fast they can be but they seem like they are serious about the project.
The component is stable beta but is not being promoted on Joomla.org just yet…
@Boris
True, I and I am hoping they do work on the component, but Christmas might be to early.. Between 0.13 and 0.15 there where Two months and the Developer http://www.1guywebdesign.com/ has af course his on projects to work on to make a living.
But it does look very promising!
Ahh, c`mon, give a fella a break :-)
I’ve been bustin’ hump just tryin to stabilize mojoBlog at the render level. Go talk to j and wp for ramping up the point releases..
Am glad everyone’s patient, so far…
Good stuff coming, promise…
@visualweb
I really think you are doing a great job!
The Integration is great and works for me.
I will be patiently awaiting the other Good Stuff
Thanks for your reply :-)
@ visualweb
Hey I am patient too. One of these days and hopefully soon I can put some in your paypal donation box! I really think WP and Joomla would be an awsome combination!
Appreciate the hard work…
A 1guy beer fund donation module is currently under development…
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http://daventurewebtech.com/index.php/services.html i want to remove index.php and is should be look link this http://daventurewebtech.com/services.html“
@daventurewebtech: Please look at the answer I give you on http://www.pathos-seo.com/joomlablog/please-give-me-a-404-page/
Great job thank you for shanring your knowledge
Hello,
It’s nice tutorial for Joomla and wordpress. I really like it.
Thanks for sharing info…
Regards,
Mihir
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