Joomla and WordPress Blog and SEO Information
I recently finished my book on Joomla 1.5 SEO by Packt Publishing, you know the company behind several great Joomla Books and of course the Open Source CMS Awards. One chapter in the book is about Joomla! Blogging and RSS Feeds. This chapter is now made free for you to download! Use this link Joomla! Blogging and RSS Feeds to get download the PDF file. Here is a … [Read more...]
Joomlart.com released a new template called JA Uvite and it is really one of the greatest templates I have seen that you can use on a Joomla based Weblog. The templates features some module's in its footer that you could use for Related items, Recent posts and even for recent comments if you have a Joomla comment component and modules installed. A great homepage … [Read more...]
Did you know you can assign different templates to different sections that are called on by your Joomla menu? Let's say you want your Joomla Blog categories to have a different Template then the rest of your website, how would you do this? First you have to create a menu item that holds your section, or the categories like you did in Creating your Blog … [Read more...]
I have set up an example Blog to let you see some of the nice components you can read about at the Joomla Blog Components page Especially with the mojoBlog component as the frontpage of the website. To get the mojoBlog, or any other component, to load on the frontpage instead of the Joomla frontpage you have to do two things. First, create a menu item linking to … [Read more...]
If you have worked with Joomla, you know about its syndication function, right? If not, go publish the module called "Syndication" but most likely you hae seen it on the Frontpage after a new installation of Joomla! Click on the RSS 2.0 icon and look how it turns out.... o, and the articles you see there are ONLY from the frontpage! Here are some screen shots of you … [Read more...]
To separate your Blog form the rest of your Joomla based website, you should give it his, of her, own Menu module. To do this you simply create a new Menu Module. You can do this by going into your Administrator panel and choose Menu -> Menu Manager, you now see als the menu's that are already in the system. Click new, and Fill the two fields with the text of … [Read more...]
If you want to setup a Blog, here is my first advice: Setup a section like " Blogging","articles" or something alike, then put in that section a categorie like " Weblog" or "Blogging". Please do NOT use a categorie "Blog"... because some SEF components for Joomla take that as a replacement for " Blogsection or Blogcategory! And you do want to use a SEF Component, … [Read more...]
So, is Joomla a valid tool to start a Blog site? Lets get this down first, Joomla is not a Blogging platform like WordPress, neither has it a real Blog function build in like Drupal. But.. this WordPress Blog is about building a Joomla bases Weblog.. right? Creating a Blog with Joomla True, this is all about Joomla and how you can have a Blog website based on … [Read more...]
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