JD-WP 1.0 Beta 1 released - joomladeveloping
WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. What a mouthful. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.
More simply, WordPress is what you use when you want to work with your blogging software, not fight it.
Download here:
http://developer.joomla.org/sf/frs/do/downloadFile/projects.joomladeveloping/frs.joomla_1_0_x.components/frs2796?dl=1
For Comments please use the comment system.
http://www.joomladeveloping.org/index.php?option=com_jd-wp&Itemid=29&p=5#comments
Installation is as easy as possible:
Joomla! Backend use component installer, after successful installation, you can use the Blog directly.
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MODX Staff
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It definitely could be done, but it probably won’t anytime soon.
Ryan Thrash, MODX Co-Founder
Follow me on Twitter at @rthrash or catch my occasional unofficial thoughts at thrash.me
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MODX Staff
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Still very doubtful, although anyone is free to attempt it.
Ryan Thrash, MODX Co-Founder
Follow me on Twitter at @rthrash or catch my occasional unofficial thoughts at thrash.me
Personally, I moved to MODX to handle site production but find the current Blog implementation a bit cumbersome, adding categories to posts is a hassle. I’m writing while I think this through, assuming you’d have to have a "Add Post" page in every single category and that wouldn’t facilitate posting an entry to multiple categories.
Wordpress is just that: Blogging Software and does an excellent job at it, but it falls over when it comes to anything not treated as a blog entry i.e. what it terms "Pages". Version 2 has made improvements but pales in comparision to MODX.
But thinking of an amalgamation of the two makes my mouth water...
Oh, another thing that bothers me with the MODX implementation is the way user comments are handled as subpages with data "hard-coded" an example of this would be modifying the chunk that is used to format the comments only to find that comments made prior to the changes still retain their original formatting.
Furthermore if I want to dump my site_content table, go home and add things, then synch the local table and live table, I need to take into account the fact that comments may have been added in between. This is the current headache I’m trying to overcome.
Anyway, I love both packages and see the two of them complimenting each other really well.
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MODX Staff
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WordPress is definitely a superior blogging tool, no question. For more sophisticated blogging requirements it currently definitely beats MODx hands down. I completely see merit in it’s integration, but at the moment I think better handling of internationalization and multilingual sites deserves a higher priority.
Ryan Thrash, MODX Co-Founder
Follow me on Twitter at @rthrash or catch my occasional unofficial thoughts at thrash.me
Marschant, thanks for taking your time in explaining that in detail.
I’m not a blogger myself, but I’ll take a look into wordpress, honestly I never tried the system yet. But your reasoning is quite clear for me. Thank you!
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MODX Staff
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Just want to share my experiences with WordPress and MODx. I’ve got several production client sites that use both MODx and WordPress, but all are loosely coupled and do not share security/users. I use WordPress feeds or custom snippets to display WP info in MODx pages, but the only real difficulty is duplicating the site menu structures and such, as well as duplicating the MODx templates/theme in WP. Otherwise, especially with the latest release solving the complex rewrite problems I often had between the two systems, it’s been a fairly smooth road with only a few pains in making updates that would affect MODx content I’ve "hardcoded" into the WP theme. Of course, nothing a couple of MODx plugins for WP couldn’t solve.
In this scenario, I’m a big fan of loose coupling between systems. This is IMO a better integration path with fewer dependencies and greater possibilities, as everytime each system changes, the bridge doesn’t have to be totally reconstructured, but rather small adjustments can be made on the side responsible for communicating to the other system. For example, when MODx gets feed data, the only time that’s gonna have to be adjusted is when the protocol for WP RSS feeds changes; which is almost never, while if I had a tightly coupled integration, the components would most likely need to be adjusted with every new version of each system. That can be a maintenance nightmare.
Anyway, just wanted to share my thoughts on the subject.
