Good Joomla blog guides
written by The Joomla Blogger, September 20, 2006

Have you read this guides? www.compassdesigns.net/tutorials/joomla-tutorials/creating-a-blog-site-with-joomla.html www.compassdesigns.net/joomla-blog/joomla-reviews/why-you-want-to-use-joomla-instead-of-wordpress.html If not, I hope you find them useful

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written by kk, October 25, 2007

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written by Andrea, October 27, 2007

this site offers valuable information on the state of Joomla. When do you expect to post blogging with joomla, PART2 ?

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written by www.links4info.com, January 13, 2008

Thank you for your informations on Joomla Blogging....i just love Joomla....cheers

There's Really No Need for Extensions for Basic Blog Functionality
written by I hate Spammy Bots but I Like Joomla, February 02, 2008

To quote the Compass Designs page - "Right now, there is no robust and feature rich blog extension for Joomla that will fufill the core features that is needed in a blog, and does it as a native (not a port) extension." My rant - it is completely redundant to install a blog component on Joomla as they are essentially doing the same thing. Also Compass Designs, if you are going to link to your own blog postings/link bait have the common sense not to use your own URL in your title as it is a dead giveaway that you are self promoting and trying to be discrete about it by having a deceptive title - I'm not saying your information isn't useful, just that it would be better to say 'We have wirtten up an explanation of the best Joomla blogging practices on our site [link]' Many people have said this on the Joomla forums and I will repeat it - why do you need a blogging component for a content management system? Isn't the whole purpose of a content management system to aid the process of content creation. My advice would be this. Create your Joomla posts for your 'blog' in a new section called 'blog', and have as many categories under 'blog' as necessary. Then add a comments component like AkoComment - note that AkoComment has the ability to add comments through the use of a JoomBot, so it can be added to any page within the CMS - this is only necessary if you want to have comments and is the only non-core feature I will discuss. You now basically have a working blog... In order to display your latest posts on the front page, simply enable the 'FrontPage' icon for your Joomla entry. Once you feel it is no longer relevant, remove the FrontPage check under the Administrator console for that category or by using the front-page manager. In order for people to be able to find your categories, you can create a directory listing using the menu feature for each category. You can actually create a blog style listing for your pages using the menu manager, although it will potentially create pagination issues for you - make sure you "no-index" your blog-style directory listings using the robots.txt file at the root directory. In conclusion it is quite possible to have a working blog based off Joomla core - you will just have to think about it and practice for a while until it becomes straight forward. Additionally if you only need a blog which is user updatable, my recommendation would be simply to create a static site off a Dreamweaver template and then have a WordPress or similar blog system installed in a 'blog' subdirectory. Unless your end user is a html expert, don't expect them to be able to use a full-blown CMS well - Joomla is basically designed for web designers / web developers.

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written by I hate Spammy Bots but I Like Joomla, February 02, 2008

p.s. line breaks aren't showing up on your blog...