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JoomBlog Component
A simple yet full-featured Joomla! blog component to add easy-to-manage and intuitive blog on your site.
 

1 Domain subscription to JoomBlog component, it's code, updates, documentation and helpdesk support for 1 domain. The subscription is valid for 1 year.

Later you can upgrade subscription to unlimited domains in your Member's Area.

Price: $39

Add additional options to the basic package:
  • 1st priority support (+$20)
  • Lifetime access(+$49)
Total$39

Unlimited Domains subscription to JoomBlog component, it's code, updates, documentation and helpdesk support for 2 and more domains. The subscription is valid for 1 year.

Price: $99

Add additional options to the basic package:
  • 1st priority support (+$20)
  • Lifetime access(+$79)
Total$99

JoomBlog Component is a Joomla! extension which makes it easy to set up a blog directory on your web site and manage it effectively. The component needs no design adjustments as it takes all styles from your site’s template. This is a SEO-friendly blog extension with the built-in Joomla! plugin for Search Engine Optimization.

JoomBlog is compatible with Joomla! 2.5 and 3.0.

The Joomla! blogging extension comes with a FREE WordPress to Joomla converter. This conversion plugin allows you to migrate your WordPress blog to Joomla! and keep all articles.

The component has Social Network integration with Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest and with JomSocial. It can also be integrated with Disqus commenting service.

WHY TO USE THE EXTENSION?

It is unbelievable easy to start your blog quickly with JoomBlog!

Free conversion plugin makes it a snap to migrate from WordPress to JoomBlog.

Is it going to be a new blog? Start your blog quickly with any of the two sample blogs containing three posts each which are delivered with the JoomBlog package.

What can you use JoomBlog component for?

  • Diary or Personal Blog: you can use Joomla! blogging component both for personal and professional purposes. Keep a diary if you want to share your life experience with other people. If you are a professional in the particular field, JoomBlog will be a perfect tool for your promotion as an expert. You can make online portfolio too with this extension.
  • Corporate Blog: using this Joomla! blog extension for marketing collaboration, you will drive more traffic and leads to your site. Welcome team blogging for Joomla site to provide users with fresh and useful information as frequently as possible!
  • Internal Corporate Communications: you can easily use JoomBlog for internal communications as well as for Social eLearning within your company. All you need is to create several blogs and distribute them to different professionals giving them authoring rights. Let your staff share their experience with colleagues through blog posts!

The blog extension is delivered with six free modules in one package. Using this Joomla! blog component you get easy-to-use tool with many useful features and settings. No tons of cluttered elements slowing your blog down!

FEATURES DETAILS

  • Clean & Tight Navigation for Readers

    Toolbar Menu allows displaying or hiding a bulk of items in the toolbar main menu (Bloggers, Blogger Posts, Blog Posts, Categories, Category Posts, Archives, Tags). You are also free to change titles and order of menu items making navigation through your blog as easy as possible for the readers.

    A cute “Random post” button which can be placed at the bottom of every post will give your readers possibility to try their luck moving to a random blog post.

    Global blog search can be done using the incorporated search tool. Users are free to carry out search using blogger’s name, key words and tags.

  • Social Sharing Options

    Slick social share buttons are built in JoomBlog. Easy sharing buttons for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+ and Pinterest your readers surely are familiar with will help you to engage them into promoting your writings in Social Media. Thanks to Open Graph protocol support a link to your new blog post at the engaged reader Facebook stream reinforced with media-rich preview.

  • JomSocial Integration

    Share blog posts in JomSocial. Special JomSocial application makes it possible to show personal blog posts on JomSocial profile page.

    Advanced permission system of the blogging component allows to set special access permissions for JomSocial Community members too. There is a possibility to configure who can see posts in your community Activity Stream – only group of friends, only registered users, all visitors.

  • Commenting Systems

    JoomBlog component has its own built-in commenting system for blog posts empowered with anti-spam CAPTCHA to protect your Joomla! blog from spam attacks. If integration with JomSocial is set up, user’s avatars from JomSocial will be shown in comments. The commenting system makes it easy to moderate comments checking them in a grid view at the back-end.

    JoomBlog extension is also integrated with Disqus service and benefit advantages of the global comment system.

  • RSS Feeds

    Blog readers can subscribe for blog RSS feeds. Pay attention to integration of JoomBlog with Google FeedBurner giving you advanced possibilities to manage RSS feeds and analyze your blog performance.

  • Team Blogging

    With JoomBlog extension you can choose team blogging environment working better for you. Your team blogging environment might look like:

    • a single Team blog and give multiple bloggers permission to contribute to it;
    • a number of personal blogs on the same site for every author of your team;
    • multiple thematic and general blogs contributed by a number of your team members.

    It is possible to give different permissions to blog users: you decide which members have administrative authority and those who are just authors. All the blogs you create on one site can be available in one interface and listed in a free module List of Blogs.

    Personalize your Team blog site! JoomBlog allows a profile creation for every author enriched with avatar or photo. If integration with JomSocial is set up you can enable user’s avatars from JomSocial to be used at their personal blog profiles or at blog post signatures.

  • User-Friendly Dashboard

    The blogging component comes with dashboard for instant blogging making it easy managing your blogs and create new ones right from the front-end.

    You can save blog posts’ drafts or schedule publishing. It is also possible to set blog to publish blog posts automatically just immediately after saving from the back-end.

    Familiar the front-end blog dashboard features you'd expect are available:

    • Category creation and, assignment of a post to several categories is possible;
    • Tabs creation;
    • ‘Read more…’ text changing;
    • Adding meta parameters;
    • HTML editor usage possibility;
    • Basic privacy policy management for new posts.

    It is possible to give different permissions to blog users: you decide which members have administrative authority and those who are just authors. All the blogs you create on one site can be available in one interface and listed in a free module List of Blogs.

    Personalize your Team blog site! JoomBlog allows a profile creation for every author enriched with avatar or photo. If integration with JomSocial is set up you can enable user’s avatars from JomSocial to be used at their personal blog profiles or at blog post signatures.

  • Useful Admin Options

    The latest posts displayed at the top of the list in the admin interface by default. You can change the order by any column of the posts list: Title, Category, Author, Creation date, Publishing date, Expiration date, Hits, Status or ID.

    Tag-based filtering will make posts management a snap. Use the special pop-up menu to filter your posts by tags easily.

    The JoomBlog component uses the built-in Joomla! plugin for Search Engine Optimization. It is developed to keep your blogs SEO-friendly without additional efforts.

  • Customizable Blog’s Template

    This Joomla! blog component picks your site’s template styles immediately after installation. It uses colours and fonts of your site and you don’t need spend time on choosing the appropriate template or pay for customization.

    Flexible blog section menu settings, it is possible to publish and hide elements of the blog component. Use FREE MODULES coming in a package with the blogging component to configure your own personal user-friendly layout:

    • Tag Cloud, shows all tags users added in the blog section, the font size of the tag is bigger if it is assigned to a lot of posts;
    • Popular Bloggers, shows bloggers whose posts have the highest number of hits;
    • List of Blogs;
    • Categories, displays categories for blogs created to sort out articles between them. One blog post can be published into several categories.
    • Latest Posts;
    • Archive, allows users to filter posts using links in the module or special calendar.

    No matter how many blogs you create on one site they can be available in one interface. Two sample blogs containing three posts each are available now to help you start quickly.

  • Extended Blog Control

    Access Control Level feature enables extended control of the blog component. JoomBlog supports standard Joomla! 1.6 and 1.7 -> 2.5 Access Control Level (ACL). Use it to define which users are granted access to different elements of the blog, as well as what operations they are allowed to do on blog posts, for example, view, add, delete posts.

Feel free to play with the DEMO.

Login Information:

Front end: Username: demo Password: demo
Administrator: Username: demoadmin Password: demoadmin

Note: Due to security reason some component doesn't have full functionality there           Demo site resets every 3 hours.

To figure out how to use the component, please go through the full online documentation.

Should any questions arise, feel free to contact us via helpdesk.

Version 1.1.0
Released [10-April-2013]

  • Joomla 3.0 compatibility release

Version 1.0.9
Released [13-December-2012]

  • Additional template style added
  • Fixed avatar display in comments
  • Changed class of language select at the "new post" form
  • Fixed empty url to post comments when Disqus is on
  • Minor bug fixes

Version 1.0.8
Released [01-August-2012]

  • Improvement release
  • !NEW! WordPress to JoomBlog converter
  • Minor bug fixes

Version 1.0.7
Released [31-May-2012]

  • Post statuses changed to: Drafts, Posts, Archive
  • Added Pinterest integration
  • Added possibility to filter posts by tags from back end
  • Added possibility to filter posts by categories, titles etc. from back end
  • Added FeedBurner integration
  • Fixed the "read more" option
  • Added the "Random post" button
  • Added ordering by date

Version 1.0.6
Released [26-January-2012]

  • Added integration with of blog permissions JomSocial groups.
  • Fixed minor bugs
  • Fixed bug with displaying comments, added from backend
  • Updated blog description (editor+)

Version 1.0.5
Released [29-December-2011]

  • Added Joomla! 2.5 compatibility
  • Fixed minor bugs
  • Fixed HTML-slicing issues

Version 1.0.4
Released [01-December-2011]

  • Added option "Show primary title & description"
  • Added search plug-in plg_search_joomblog (another search option besides the embedded one)
  • Added the plug-in manager section to the component
  • Fixed JS error when tool bar is hidden
  • Fixed auto approve feature
  • Fixed @Sample data@ bug
  • Fixed Captcha bug, figures are more legible
  • Updated notifications
  • Fixed HTML-slicing issues

Version 1.0.3
Released [20-September-2011]

  • Huge code revision
Administrator Panel:
  • Updated Settings
  • Added integration with Google+
  • Added integration with Facebook
  • Added integration with Twitter
  • Added integration with LinkedIn
  • Added management of bloggers avatars. Added support for JomSocial avatars.
  • Updated integration with Disqus service for managing comments
  • Updated integration with AddThis service for social sharing featuresmenu items (Blogger Posts, Category Posts, Archives, Tags, Blog Posts).
  • Updated permission system
Front End:
  • Added social buttons to list of posts and/or to posts
  • Multicategories
  • Updated RSS
  • Changed order of entries in the posts list: blog->post title, category title.
  • Added the ability to give access to create a blog

Version 1.0.2
Released [22-August-2011]

  • Joomla! 1.7 compatible release
Version 1.0.1
Released [03-August-2011]
  • Huge code revision.
Administrator Panel:
  • Added a section allowing user to manage JoomBlog bloggers.
  • Added a section allowing user to manage blogs.
  • Added integration with Disqus service for managing comments.
  • Added integration with AddThis service for social sharing features.
  • Added advanced settings allowing user to adjust the arrangement of main menu items in the front-end toolbar.
  • Added management of bloggers avatars. Added support for JomSocial avatars.
  • Changed Sample Data. Two demo blogs containing three posts each are available.
  • New menu types available when creating menu items (Blogger Posts, Category Posts, Archives, Tags, Blog Posts).
  • Bug fixes
Front End:
  • Added new menu items to the toolbar main menu (Bloggers, Categories, Archives, Tags). Menu items can be either displayed or hidden. Added possibility to change titles and order of menu items.
  • Added the Previous and Next buttons allowing user to navigate between posts.
  • Added the Back to Top button to the toolbar of every post in the post list.
  • Changed order of entries in the posts list: blog->post title, category title.
  • Bug fixes

Version 1.0.0
Released [21-February-2011]

Installation package includes English language files only. Other languages are available for all registered JoomPlace users through Translations page.

In the chart below you could find out which languages are available for the component. Go to the Translations page to download language files.

Should any questions arise, feel free to contact JoomPlace Support Team.


Current translations availability:

Joomla 2.5 version

Joomla 3.x version

You are welcome to contribute to translation of the component on   project.

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