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| Joomla Templates Influence Drupal and Wordpress |
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| Wednesday, 03 October 2007 | |
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Lets be honest, the variety, quality and low cost of Joomla templates far outshines most other CMSs. More than anything else, its the reason I hear from people when they decide on Joomla.
No surprise then that Joomla's templates are being imitated:
Wordpress: RevolutionTheme.com. $59.99 for the template.
Drupal: Roopletheme.com. Apparently they initially intended to sell these templates but have since decided to offer them for free. Take a close look and you'll notice:
Comments (10)
  written by Boris, October 06, 2007
Rockettheme talked about doing this a year a go but they have too much work.
I am trying to develop websites with wordpress on the homepage but have the rest be joomla site... Even if I have to hardcode the joomla navigation on the wordpress navigation... Could always have wordpress on another subfolder, but blog will have the most new content and be of most importance...  written by Steve Burge, October 07, 2007
Hi Louis
I definitely agree - taking a look a customer support forums is a great way to judge support from a template club. Many unanswered posts ... not worth subscribing. Hi Boris Unfortunately, up until recently it was possible to use a Wordpress integration with Joomla and make that your homepage. It may still be possible to find a copy of OpenWP. Steve  written by Pathos Seo, October 07, 2007
@Steve,
There is a great overview on WP Magazine style themes at http://themeplayground.com/309...-available As for Joomla I found MojoBlog a great subsitute for OpenWP You can find it on http://www.joomlify.com/ written by Steve Burge, October 07, 2007
David
My mistake OpenWP has been withdrawn alongside OpenSEF unfortunately. Thanks for the great tip Hummerbie. BTW ... Johann has a blog component in the works for 1.5 called Blogman: http://www.joomlablogman.org written by Boris, October 07, 2007
YEP OpenWP is shut down, but now MojoBlog is in development and a stable Beta. The hard working developers are working on SEO friendly URLs too! But we must be patient..
Wordpress websites to good in search engine results because of those keywords in URLs, categories, tags, page titles, headlines.. http://www.joomlify.com written by Steve Burge, October 07, 2007
Great news Boris - look for a blog post about this next week.
Steve written by Rebecca, October 09, 2007
I've seen some monthly template clubs that included wordpress themes - they tended to be very adsense oriented though. But few WP themes change the look all that much, so it's refreshing to see some Joomla-like ones (I have some blogs in WP just because of some of the plugins I have for them already - but Joomla wins hands down in the looks department!)
 written by Good Web Practices, October 11, 2007
Don't know if you guys know the site http://blogoscoped.com/? I visit daily there, but anyway, Philipp uses Wordpress and it looks good and is really accesible. Have to say though Wordpress sites always look pretty similar!
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And it's mind-blowing to see how many new template clubs are offering templates for Joomla. The more the merrier I say, but it comes down to one thing at the end of the day....SUPPORT! I am a member at JoomlArt and the support from them or the members are phenomenal!
So make sure when you join their club that the template are updated often and that support is available!