Wordpress Integration for Joomla! 1.5

While Joomla! is extremely versatile, it does not make for the best blogging platform. WordPress is the best blogging platform there is. With its ease of use and its pure blogging power you could not ask for anything else. WordPress is very rich in features, allowing authors to password protect their posts, as well as have WordPress decide if comments are spam or not with great accuracy. You can even blog on your iPhone/iPod Touch directly onto your Joomla! site!

Features

• Natively works on Joomla! 1.5, install it as any other extension
• Dynamic Pages
• Pages – Static content, it allows you to manage non-bloggable content, such as an About page
• WordPress Links – Allows you to have links to other websites that will normally relate to yours (Blogroll).
• WordPress Themes – There are thousands of themes out on the web ready to be used with WordPress. ‘corePHP’ also offers the ablitlity to make you a custom theme to match your website. Note: Most themes will need some edits to work inside of Joomla!
• Cross-blog communication tools – WordPress fully supports both the Trackback and Pingback
• Comments – Visitors can leave comments on individual posts and through Trackbacks and Pingbacks.
• Spam protection —WordPress comes with very robust tools such as an integrated blacklist and open proxy checker to manage and eliminate comment spam on your blog.
• Full Joomla! 1.5 user integration – WordPress will sync the WordPress user every time he loads the component to make sure all of the users information is accurate. All of WordPress roles are fully functional within Joomla! 1.5
• Password Protected Posts – Give individual posts a password to hide them from the public.
• Easy Installation and upgrades – Every time a new update comes out just uninstall it from Joomla’s administrator panel, and install the new version, your database, media, plug-ins and themes will still be there.
• XML-RPC interface - WordPress currently supports an extended version of the Blogger API, MetaWeblog API, and finally the MovableType API.
• User Roles – You can have different user types, users that can only post drafts, but cannot publish them.
• ASCII to correct XHTML – WordPress will transform pain ASCII into correct XHTML entities.
• Ping away – WordPress supports pinging Ping-O-Matic, which means maximum exposure for your blog to search engines.
• iPhone – Joomla! supports the iPhone app for WordPress. This app allows you to create, publish, draft, and password protect your posts. It takes pictures and much more in the upcoming releases.
• Post via Email – If you don’t have an iPhone, you can send an email to a predefined email address and WordPress will automatically post it to your blog.

‘corePHP’ has added a few features of our own:

• Add / Remove blog title
• Add / Remove sidebar
• Different options for CSS style sheets
• Enable / Disable automatic role syncing with Joomla!
• Show / Hide Author name in posts.
• We have ported over some of the most popular plugins. There are a lot more to come.

There is so much more that you can experience with WordPress. A blog is a great way to bring more visitors to your website, post about your ideas, or communicate with your visitors, it will also improve your ranking in search engines!