Joomla Blog Factory Extension

A free, user and webmaster friendly blogging extension for Joomla!, with a native and fresh look, packing up various features, Blog Factory it's a brilliant alternative to Wordpress blogging, allowing web users to use Joomla! versatility and well known blogging conventions.

Layout & Themes

- Fully customizable CSS

Key Features

- Individual per blog listings (every user gets his own blog front page)
- User dashboard (with draggable panes and all-in-reach controls)
- Import Blog posts into regular Joomla! content
- Bookmarking for social websites (Digg, Twitter, Facebook, etc.)
- Thumbs up/down rating system (rate posts and comments)
- Commenting system
- Following system (with email notifications on new posts)
- Built-in Media Manager with per user Disk Quota (users can upload media in order to post in their blog)
- Email notifications
- RSS feeds and syndication
- Avatars (own uploaded avatar, Gravatar or Community's Builder if available)
- Simple blogs search on listings
- Pingbacks
- Metadata
- Revisions
- Tags

Standards

- Multi-language support, UTF-8 support, comes default with English INI language files
- SEO/SEF friendly
- Default integration with Joomla! user profile, allowing a single login for Joomla! and component
- Easy transition to RTL
- Simple installation, configuration and updating process

User Profile

- Configurable account details (name, URL)
- Enable/disable subscription notification (notifies user when new posts are added on followed blogs)
- Set avatar (own uploaded avatar, Gravatar or Community's Builder if available)

Categories

- Unlimited categories and subcategories levels
- Category tree module

Main Settings

- General settings (enable/disable router plugin, enable/disable categories)
- Posts settings (set up interactions, whitelist tags)
- Set up The Factory integrations (this will allow users to include content from other extensions into their blog posts)
- Comment settings (approvals, guest comments, ratings, Captcha)
- Pagination settings (set number of comments per page and their order)
- Enable/disable pingbacks
- Media manager settings
- Import default settings (can be overwritten for each blog individually)
- Avatars settings
- Add banned words which will be filtered on comments
- Manage permission settings for groups (create blogs, add comments)

Modules & Plugins

- Modules that display latest, random, top active, top followed blogs (multiple instances module)
- Modules that display latest, random, top rated posts (multiple instances module)
- Calendar module (clicking on a day will display all the posts from that respective day)
- Category tree module
- Posts tree module
- Tag cloud module
- Search and System plugins

3rd Party Integrations

- Community Builder
- Gravatar
- Reverse Auction Factory
- Raffle Factory
- Micro Deal Factory
- Ads Factory
- Media Mall Factory
- Jobs Factory
- Social Factory
- Love Factory
- jAnswers Factory
- API available for 3rd party integration of other extensions

Notifications

- 6 types of email notifications for all important events to users and administrators
- Customizable email templates

Backend Management

- Actions: deal with reports, approve/unapprove comments, set up notifications, etc.
- Overview comments
- Blogs and posts management
- User management
- Bookmarks management
- Backup and restore data
- Dashboard containing several statistics and information

Requirements

- Joomla! 4.x, 3.x
- PHP (min. 5.3.0)
- MySQL (min. 5.1 + )
- CRON (a general CRON Tutorial is available in our documentation section)
- cURL, GD2 libraries enabled

FURTHER DETAILED INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE ON THE PRODUCT HOMEPAGE!