Learn more about WordPress for Joomla!

Look, we all love Joomla!. But in all honesty, its blogging features are severely lacking. Ask any serious blogger what powers their blog and they will almost always say, “WordPress!”

And so that’s why we created WordPress for Joomla! — to give Joomla! users the best of both worlds. WordPress for Joomla! gives you instant access to all of WordPress’s awesome blogging tools right INSIDE your Joomla! CMS. Now you can use what the pros use (WordPress) AND enjoy everything Joomla! has to offer at the same time.

Sure, there are other Joomla! blogging components out there that try to mimic what WordPress does, but why waste your time on buggy WordPress imitations when you can now have the real thing — WordPress, the #1 blogging software on the planet — working inside your Joomla!.

WordPress for Joomla! makes it happen!

Others have tried to integrate WordPress into Joomla! in the past, but have never succeeded. We’ve spent two years developing WordPress for Joomla! and it’s become the #1 extension on our site — and for good reason. Our WordPress for Joomla! component works perfectly.

If you need a serious blogging component for Joomla!, WordPress for Joomla! is a dream come true.

Here are just a few of WordPress for Joomla!’s powerful features:

• WordPress for Joomla! is EASY to install! No need to install & configure WordPress separately. WordPress for Joomla! installs like any other Joomla! component and only takes a few minutes to set up.
• Can power multiple blogs on your site from multiple authors (something a native Joomla!-powered blog or even “MyBlog for Joomla!” cannot do).
• Can run thousands of powerful native WordPress plugins on your blog. You can even use Joomla! content plugins on your WordPress posts, too!
• Includes built-in commenting, trackbacks, and pingbacks. No need to purchase 3rd party Joomla! commenting software, it’s all conveniently built-in for you!
• Comes with 8 exclusive Joomla! modules that will broadcast your latest WordPress blogs (multi-users), latest blog posts, recent blog comments & more throughout your entire Joomla! site
• Comes with a free default theme and also works with most 3rd party Joomla! templates (including Joomla!Shack templates, Shape5 templates, RocketTheme templates and many others). WordPress for Joomla! will inherit styles from your website template right out of the box ensuring your blog always matches yours site!
• Integrates with JomSocial — the #1 community-creation software for Joomla!
• Can import “MyBlog” posts into your new WordPress for Joomla! blog, so switching is easy
• Supports Ping-O-Matic, which helps you promote your blog by pinging popular sites everytime you post a new entry
• And so much more!

Click the “Standard Features,” “Joomla! Features” and “New Features” tabs at the top of this page to read more about ALL the exciting features WordPress for Joomla! has to offer.

Requirements:
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WordPress for Joomla! requires PHP version 5.2.4 or greater and MySQL version 5.0.15 or greater. SEF URLs and mod_rewrite must be turned on in Joomla! in order to use the Search Friendly URLs and Multisite features.

Manage Multiple Sites

Manage multiple sites (called Multisite) with with one single installation! WordPress MU allowed users to easily create and manage blogs for multiple websites at once. That capability is now available for WordPress for Joomla! 3.0.

"Twenty Ten" Default Theme

Classy and convenient, our default theme "Twenty Ten" takes full advantage of the current features of WordPress. If you're looking for something a bit different, we have also added support for many popular Joomla! template companies (including Joomla!Shack, Shape5, RocketTheme and many others). It will inherit most styles from your template out of the box!

New Custom Menu Management Feature

Customize your menus. Combine posts, pages, categories, tags, and links into theme menus or widgets.

Customize!

Manually customize your own image header through the backend. For developers, take advantage of the new Background APIs.

Install themes directly from WordPress itself!

Install themes directly from WordPress! WordPress for Joomla! comes with a full theme system which makes designing everything from the simplest blog to the most complicated webzine a piece of cake. You can even have multiple themes with totally different looks that you can switch with a single click. Use a new design every day!

Plugins work right out of the box!

In our previous versions, we had to individually migrate each plugin from WordPress to WordPress for Joomla! for our users. Version 3.0 gives you the ability to install almost any plugin that you need on your own. No more waiting! If you find one that requires a little extra work, contact our professional service department for a quote.

More great Joomla! only features!

These features are ONLY available though this new version of WordPress for Joomla! Joomla! only features include:

• Complete integration with JomSocial
• Migration script from myBlog to WordPress 3.0 for Joomla!
• Ability to display/hide the menu, title and header image
• Use Joomla! content plugins on your WordPress posts

New Modules!

• WordPress Categories - A list of categories for the current blog
• WordPress Latest - A list of the latest posts for the current blog
• WordPress Recent Comments - A list of recent comments for the current blog
• WordPress Search - A search box that will only search the current blog
• WordPress Sidebar 1 - The 'WordPress sidebar1' position in a module
• WordPress Sidebar 2 - The 'WordPress sidebar2' position in a module
• WordPress Blog List - A list of blogs on a site (Multisite only)
• WordPress Latest Blogs - A list of the latest blog posts site-wide (Multisite only)

Supported SEF extensions

• Joomla! Standard SEF
• sh404SEF
• SEF Advanced

Add and Remove the Blog Title

Are blog titles ruining your dream layout? This feature allows you to add or remove the blog title at any time.

Add or Remove the Sidebar

Sidebar causing trouble? You have the option to add it or remove it at any time. If the sidebar is removed, the blog content area will become a one column layout and you can then setup the module sidebar to display your widgets inside a Joomla! module

Built-in CSS style sheet options

If you’re working with CSS style sheets, enjoy the many options that we’ve added in for your convenience.

Customize your own Themes! Make your work easy by using an existing theme, or go nuts and customize your own from the ground up! Although many themes require a few edits to work inside of the WordPress for Joomla! package, ‘corePHP’ offers you the ability to make a custom theme that matches your website.

Easy Installation and Upgrades

Installing and updating WordPress For Joomla! is every bit as easy as installing and updating WordPress. Every time a new update comes out, just install over the old version of the component from the Joomla! administrator panel.ff Your database, media, plug-ins and themes will be exactly the way you left them.

Make your blog into a website with static content pages

If you think you’re just getting a blog, think again. Like WordPress, WordPress for Joomla! lets you create static content pages. Use this feature to add an “About Us” or “Contact Us” page, or go to town and build complete web pages in addition to your blog!

Get connected with WordPress Links!

Allow your users to quickly and conveniently connect to relevant sites. WordPress for Joomla! provides its own internal blogroll manager, allowing you to create, maintain, and update as many blogrolls as you like through the administration interface. Expand your resources dramatically by linking to websites and other blogs that relate to yours!

Increase your user base with cross-blog communication tools!

Let your users connect outside of your blog with cross-blog communication tools! WordPress for Joomla! fully supports trackback and pingback standards. Trackbacks and pingbacks allow your users to connect from inside your blog to theirs, which can dramatically increase your visitors and your user base. Let your users advertise for you, and get your blog connected today!

Let your users connect with comments!

Not only can users and visitors comment on individual posts, they can also connect your blog to their own site using trackbacks and pingbacks. Comments can be enabled or disabled on a per-post basis.

Protect your blog from spam with WordPress Spam Protection!

Eliminate comment spam on your blog with an integrated blacklist and an open proxy checker. For additional protection use Akismet.

Password protect your posts for extra security – or just for fun!

This feature allows you to assign passwords to individual posts. Hide posts from the public, create private posts that are viewable only by their author, or give the password to a handful of bloggers, allowing them to communicate through password-protected posts. Use this feature any way you like. Just don’t lock yourself out!

Take advantage of our XML-RPC interface!

Like WordPress, WordPress for Joomla! supports an extended version of the Blogger API, MetaWeblog API, and the MovableType API. You can even use clients designed for other platforms like Zempt.

Access your blog on the go with your iPhone!

Don’t have time to blog at the computer? WordPress for Joomla! supports the iPhone app for WordPress. Create, publish, draft, and password protect your posts through your iPhone!

Screen your content with the WordPress Workflow Feature!

This great feature lets you choose which of your users can edit content, publish articles, or just post drafts for later review and publication. Make users into Administrators, Editors, Authors, Contributors, or Subscribers.

Configure your own user roles with the Multiple Authors feature!

Create up to 10 user roles of your own! Define your own levels and configure the privileges for each level. Choose who can do what in regard to administrating, publishing, editing, altering options, contributing to your blog and so on.

Edit in the WordPress ASCII or xHTML editor!

Want to edit in code? You can do it. Want to switch back to normal speech? You can do that too! Using the Texturize engine, WordPress for Joomla! intelligently transforms ASCII into XHTML. This includes quotes, apostrophes, ellipses, em and en dashes, multiplication symbols, and ampersands.

Maximize your exposure to search engines with Ping-O-Matic!

Like WordPress, WordPress for Joomla! supports Ping-O-Matic, which pings popular services multiple times so your blog will be indexed on their site. Services you can ping include Weblogs.com, My Yahoo!, BlogRolling, Weblogalot, Google Blog Search, Technorati and many more!

Publish posts on the go with Bookmarklets!

Publish posts or add links to your blogroll while you’re on the go! Share pages or links by selecting the Bookmarklets link. When the panel pops up, add any additional information you’d like your readers to see, assign a category, and press save. Your post will be immediately added to your blog. It’s as simple as that!

Watch our video to learn more!