| Joomla Blogging Options Part 3 - OpenWP |
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| Thursday, 19 April 2007 | |
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Update: This review is out-of-date. Try Joomlify.com for a great Wordpress and Joomla integration.
This week, we've gone on to talk about blogging with a default Joomla set-up and with the commercial MyBlog component. Both of them are strong options.
Today, we're going to look at a third useful way to blog with Joomla - OpenWP from J-Prosolution.com.
IntroductionMarko Schmuck, who also develops the Open SEF Component, has integrated Wordpress 2.0 with Joomla. This is not a bridge, but a fully-loaded, plug-and-play component.
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Disadvantages
OverallOpenWP is a good blogging choice. It doesn't bring 100% of the power of Wordpress to Joomla, but it brings enough to make it a very solid blogging tool.
Its not easy to levarage the power of this component for too many people, because only the main administrator account has access the Control Panel. Therefore, OpenWP is recommended for people looking to a single-author blog with more power and options than are available through a default Joomla setup. Further ReadingComments (4)
  written by steve, April 19, 2007
Hi Zorro - thats a really smart way to look at it. Even with a mature application such as Wordpress, there are still essential security fixes released regularly.
For example, I think it was a wise choice by Joomla.org to go with a standalone version of Simple Machines, rather than a bridge. Because of this, the main Joomla forums are safe and update to date, whereas the developers blog is already out of date. Hi Aravot - I'm not a big fan of Mamblog, but sure... look for Part 4 of Joomla Blogging, perhaps next week   written by Choudhury, October 29, 2007
Hi,
I am using the mambo blog in my site softestclub.com. I am not fully satisfied to it..so I would urge everyone to be careful about it. Thanks Write comment
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Last week talked about how having a blog hosted on your site can be a important SEO tool for your Joomla site.
You might not get updates and critical fixes.
When the 3rd party app is updated (as has happened quite frequently with Wordpress in the past months), you may be stuck with legacy / insecure code if the dev who did the Joomla integration doesn't follow up quickly in releasing a new version.
This goes for components such as OpenWP and OpenWiki, and it went for the ancient phpBB component too, may it rest in peace.
If you're using integrated 3rd party apps, you're running a general security risk you need to be aware of. Either that, or you are that much of a coder that you can fix issues yourself, but then you're moving away from the "golden" code and have to maintain it for yourself.
My 2 cents ... as always, kind regards.
Zorro