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Just to save you time and efforts, get this extension. Don't look at the others, don't try to save pennies.

The component is very easy to install, although I had to do it manually because Joomla FTP Layer + Shared hosting didn't work very well together. Once FTP Layer was turned off, it is a great extension, user-friendly and powerful enough to meet enyone's needs.

Support was nice and helpful. Very good value for your money!

I have installed number of free extensions on my website but this was my first paid product. At first, I didnt want to spend the money, but after reading all the reviews I decided to bite the bullet. And now I am glad to say, it is money well spent. It is a great product with excellent customer service. Installation was somewhat trivial, experienced time out issue which was resolved by not uploading and installing at the sametime. Rather, I uploaded manually and then installed it from there. There are other ways like changing php configuration file but that didn't work for me. documentation is really good. for the most part, integration with social media such as twitter, sharethis, is pretty trivial. However, facebook integration requires some work. But, their tech support goes above and beyond to fix things for you. I have also added Simple Image Gallery which is a must have if you are planning to include images in your blog. Perhaps, they can improve on that in their next version.

One look at the Blog category in the Joomla Extensions directory shows that there are many different blog solutions available to fulfill this need. However (currently) at the top of this list is EasyBlog, and with very good reason. It's the only one that provides a community blog component that can be easily used by all registered members of a community. And it does this extremely well.

We're deploying this extension on a community geared towards photographers. Installation was as easy as it gets, and administration is simple and straightforward. With very little effort, our members are now contributing to our site's content while building their own audience (which in turn becomes our audience).

The main component is flexible and includes many features that are usually only seen on full-fledged blog applications like WordPress. It's easy for all your site's members to associate their blog with their Twitter/Facebook/Feedburner/etc accounts so all updates get broadcast automatically. The available modules are convenient for featuring your members' blog posts throughout your site. And integration with popular community extensions like Community Builder, JomSocial and AlphaUserPoints is a welcome addition.

There are still some minor issues that need to be improved. A more seamless integration with a Joomla site's appearance would be welcome, for one. But these minor issues are all being worked on by the developers, and progress with each release looks fantastic.

One point that might discourage some potential customers is the price. This extension isn't free. However the support we've gotten for that price has been outstanding. Every time we come across a problem, there's someone there to help us. Whether on the forum, via email, or through their support ticket system, customer support is top notch and worth every penny. In light of this, I consider the price a bargain.

StackIdeas recently introduced a lower-priced "Community" edition of this extension. While I applaud the concept, I think the price being asked is a bit much. It's almost the same price as the regular version. The word "Community" itself kinda implies "free", so maybe that wasn't the best thing to call it. I think they'd attract a lot more potential customers if they offered this edition at half the price of the regular version, and called it something that doesn't imply "free".

In the end, we're very happy with the choice we've made for our community, and we look forward to seeing what StackIdeas has in mind in the future for this extension.

I have EasyBlog installed and it is by far the best blogging software for joomla. The software is top notch. The support forum unlike a lot of sites is actually useful. And the support given by the guys at stackideas is top notch.

I would recommend this software to anyone. And would gladly by it again!!!

EasyBlog is easy to set up. The use of this program is almost self explained.(I have no experience in Internet at all!) It has quite complete features as a blogging tool. Best of all, the tech support is of quality, accurate and timely; it is so much better than crawling in forum and wait for your luck. Hope other programs also provide the same thing. A little charge, but it goes a long way, more than worth it.

We're a professional design firm that has used many different extensions, but nothing compares to the quality of EasyBlog's support system. We bought this extension about 6 months ago and have not regretted it since. There were many bugs in this extension that were found by us and our clients that we have posted in the support forums. EasyBlog's support was courteous, prompt, and has even released new versions as a result from the found bugs!

I highly recommend this extension because of the great support, ever evolving quality in their software, and our client's satisfaction!!

I have used EasyBlog for a while, but recently i needed support on a couple of issues. The support was great, they recommended an upgrade to the latest version which was very straight forward to do and they applied a patch to fix the other problem

great work

Overall, this extension is very promising and by far one of the best blogging components the Joomla! community has.

Installation was straight forward and the amount of customization to the template was limitless. I was able to easily integrate this blogging tool into the overall look and feel of a client's website .

Support was prompt and able to quickly fix one minor issue I had (which was that the default Joomla! search component was pulling blog items that were non published).

Great job!

LyftenBlog was updated recently and had bugs. After searching, Easy Blog was the choice. Its worth the small amount of money, for a quality product. Dont know about support, have not needed it yet.

Easy Blog installed and worked right out of "the box". No issues, tons of features and integrations (twitter, facebook, addthis, buzz). Not hard to set up and there are several themes to choose from.

I did Not need my programmer to edit, tweak or fix anything. But its always good to have one, just in case.

Thanks.

I just bought this excellent extension few days ago.
Easy to install and settup. I wanted to customize the blog with the look of my web site so I submitted a ticket to the support to know in which directories/files I have to make the changes.
Within a few hours I got all my questions answered.
The support team is fast, efficient and very proffessional.
5 thumbs up !

two major and one minnor problems.

does not full support utf (greek)characters especailly with joomsef - not working well(plug in).

does not support gzip compress compoment!! it is very important for me!!

the minor problem is the css themes is need more working and 2 or 3 of this is repeat.... change only the colors!!

This is my first purchased extension because I really wanted a blog on my site and set up was easy. Searching the publishers website for information to resolve one issue was found with in minutes. Just a really great experience with a paid extension. I can not give more praise than 5 thumbs up

Easyblog is, without a doubt, the best extension I've ever paid for. I'm fairly new to joomla, but was able to get this up and running and customized to my liking within a few hours. I integrated it with my rockettheme theme and with jomsocial and everything worked great with very little pain in getting it all set up.

One of my favorite things about the extension is how smoothly it integrates with other things. It seems there is already a plugin to integrate it with most things that are related to it (different comment systems, jomsocial, etc).

However, the absolute best thing about this extension is the support. If you're anything like me you know how frustrating it can be to have a question about an extension that you just can't get figured out, and watch your question sit idle on the barren support forums for weeks. I have submitted quite a few questions about easyblog using both their support forum and email ticketing system, and everything has been responded to and resolved ridiculously quickly. I mean, one time, it took overnight to get a response and they actually apologized to me for the wait. That was still a faster response than any other support request I've submitted for an extension.

The best part is that none of these support requests were about a problem with the software itself. Rather, they had to do with customization (which they say they don't technically support, but they're still willing to go the extra mile to help you with it even offering to log in to your admin site and make the change for you at times) or settings that I somehow missed.

If you need a blog component for your site, I can't imagine you'll find anything better.

I do not normally post reviews but felt that it was important to share my experience. What a great product (and with the perfect name) EasyBlog is in fact VERY easy to set up and customize. There is so much attention to detail and so many features. You simply can't go wrong. After spending alot of money on wordpress integrations and other blog software, then spending hours and hours trying to get these components to work we reluctantly spent more money on yet another 'blog' component.

This was the best $59 I ever spent. The software simply worked perfectly.

Their website does not do this product justice. You will get so much more than you realize.

I bought this Blog component last week and it works flawlessly... It looks terrific as well! If you are looking for a professional Blog that blows all the "other" Blog components away then this is the choice for you. I have tried them all, nothing compares.

Support: You dont need support in such an easy understanding and terrific product! That's what it should be about.

I used MyBlog since 2 years - now I changed to Easyblog and I would like to say it's worth the money. Great component including all features you need to have at this time. Also integration with Jomsocial and JComments works perfect.

I tried many different Blog extensions before ending up with Easy Blog. I had a few minor installation issues, but their customer support is excellent and timely. Our bloggers are fairly inexperienced and they too find it easy.

I've been using EasyBlog on a few sites for a few months now. It works great, and updates come out on a regular basis.

But the greatest part is, that when an issue comes up, the support team is super quick to help out!

I certainly recommend EasyBlog.

I use EasyBlog for a couple of days now. It's easy to install, easy to use and it works really great! A lot of options to customize the blog. The responding and support is perfect!!
Great job!

This exstension work great... it's easy install ,very flexible, lots of options.
Is easy to customize in cases of personal blog or too fora a community of bloggers, but especially Sam replied to every problem I had very quickly and very professionally.
Perhaps the only drawback is that some styles of ccs are embedded in the code and not in an external style sheet but this is a problem that occurs only in the case of the blog 's extremely personalized . Recommended