Joomla and Blogging
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- Mike Brandonisio
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Hi,
I've been thinking about adding a blog to my Joomla site. I'd like to start adding some week business related material to the site. I have a few questions about blogging:
1) What makes a BLOG a BLOG. Joomla allows me to add content and display it by date. I can add a comment system like AKO to it for people to create a dialog. So does that make it a BLOG? I guess I'm wondering if blogging is more of a concept than a thing?
2) Is there something that I'd be missing if I did not use a special blog component like MamBlog or something?
3) If I do not allow comments to be posted is it still a blog?
I'd really like to start writing more and I want my weekly content be picked up by sites like Weblogs.com or Technorati.com. Will sites like these only crawl your content if you are using a blog tool?
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- Mike Brandonisio
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Hi,
I'm replying to myself here.
This was more than likely the wrong place to post a question like this being so off topic. I did some poking around and was able to come to this conclusion about blogging. It can be any web site that displays periodic entries Newest first. The ability to create a dialog with comments is optional and the site can only benefit from features like RSS feed for the blog entries.
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- Mike VanKirk
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I'd like to know what are the advantages to using a separate blog component over just using Joomla!? I haven't blogged, but I am curious.
Mike
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- James Spencer
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The distinction between the 2 types of softwares are very little. A Blog is dedicated purely for inputting information whereas something like Joomla! has more variation in its capabilites. If you wanted something like Weblog...a dedicated Blog software would be best in my opinion.
Just look at Rocket Theme, they use both Joomla! - SMF Forum and Wordpress blog
Why restrict yourself to using one with some limiting component when you can have both!This image is hidden for guests.
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- Mike Brandonisio
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Mike VanKirk wrote:
I'd like to know what are the advantages to using a separate blog component over just using Joomla!? I haven't blogged, but I am curious.
Mike
Hi,
The only thing that I have noticed is that BLOG software like WordPress have uilt in BLOW psecific content TAG's and use Ping-o-matic to tell all the BLOG search engines that you have made a new entry when you publish it. Most if not all of the features you find in BLOG software can be added to joomla via modules, Bot's or Components. Some one has even created a Joomla version of WordPress, It is using v2.0 of WP while the current WP is version 2.11
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- Ian Beer
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I have used basic Joomla as a picture blog for some time, the only slight drawback is tagging. To some extent you can simulate it using categories, but you only put content into one category. There are separate comment, calendar and sidebar components (the one I use has its own calendar) if you use Joomla alone. Using this you can, using various components such as Litebox, build a gallery onto any page you want.
On another site I am using J! Wordpress, and with that you can use as many different tags per entry as you want, the comment system is built in, as are sidebar components. As this site is not a photographic biased one, I haven't tried tacking a gallery on the end of an entry.
Be aware there is a tiny bit of fiddling to be done, to make Wordpress display properly with some of the templates, the usual clear problem causes it to output below modules in the left or right margins.
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- Mike Brandonisio
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Ian Beer wrote:
I have used basic Joomla as a picture blog for some time, the only slight drawback is tagging. To some extent you can simulate it using categories, but you only put content into one category. There are separate comment, calendar and sidebar components (the one I use has its own calendar) if you use Joomla alone. Using this you can, using various components such as Litebox, build a gallery onto any page you want.
On another site I am using J! Wordpress, and with that you can use as many different tags per entry as you want, the comment system is built in, as are sidebar components. As this site is not a photographic biased one, I haven't tried tacking a gallery on the end of an entry.
Be aware there is a tiny bit of fiddling to be done, to make Wordpress display properly with some of the templates, the usual clear problem causes it to output below modules in the left or right margins.
Hi,
Is J! Wordpress the same as JD-Wordpress? Do you have a link?
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- Ian Beer
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Sorry, I wasn't concentrating, yes i did mean JD-Wordpress, except it is on its way to becoming OpenWP, you can find the component, various modules for sidebar etc, and the search bot at
http://projects.j-prosolution.com/projects/os-projects/download-openwp.html
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There is a need to make a small change to the css to get it to display properly in some templates, Bentobox is one (and I am successfully using it with that template), but it is only one line of code to change and said change is documented on the Bentobox forum (I think its the Bentobox forum, its on the RT Forum somewhere).
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- Mike Brandonisio
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Hi,
Oh, That's fine. I've used it with Bubblicious. I hav not seen any changes need for that theme.
I've posted a note in the OpenWP Forum. The current Open WP version is 2.0 and the current WP is v2.12. I'm hoping they port something soon.
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