I always thought one of the biggest problem with Joomla was that it did not come with a standard commenting system or a set of features for bloggers, like Wordpress does. But over the years, a lot of blogging components have been added for Joomla by third parties. See the full list of Joomla blogging components here. Of these, the two most prominent and feature-rich ones, in my opinion, are:
1. My Blog by Azrul.com
2. mojoBlog by Joomlify.com (This is the one I chose eventually even though I rated My Blog higher. Read on to know why.)
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Aug 9, 2008
Yay Yay the blog is up and running, so I am going to celebrate by paryting with my wife all night. OK alright, we were gonna go out for a party anyway.
Different things can make people happy. And just this simple act of installing the blog and getting it work did it for me today. There are 2 reasons for that:
1. The "As Seen on TV" reason": Joomla, the Content Mangement System that I am using for this website (also something that we specialize on at Simplosys), is the best, alright. But if you've had the chance to work with it for a while, you'll know that it does not have a default commenting system, much less a default blogging platform. There are several third party products that provide those features and actually come pretty close to being a nice solution. But you never realize all the bumps along the road to get them working until you download and start hackin' at it. I used 2-3 pieces to get this blog up and running on Joomla without spending a single penny other than my own time (and I love working on this stuff, so that's double the reward actually ;). I am going to write a separate post about how I got this working, in detail, soon, so watch out!
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