When I write reviews for components, it's either because I've had a terrible experience, or a fantastic one.... In this case it was the latter.

Wordpress / Wordpress MU is probably the most complicated bridge ever created for joomla - i've used quite a few myself, and nothing matches the scale of this - the developer must be an inspired coder to have made this work.

This component let's you actually use wordpress or wordpress MU inside joomla - the full wordpress.... the worlds best blogging platfrom pretty much with all the features intact.

I do have to say that if I my knowledge were as it was 2/3 years ago, I would have fallen flat on my face and would probably be writing a complaining review instead.

I've got lots of experience with joomla and I've got basic css/html/wordpress - and to get the most out of this component - you need it.

The basic themes that work out of the box are very basic - there is a video showing you the methods involved in modifying a template, but again you need quite a lot of knowledge of php/html to translate what they're telling you for the template you've chosen.

I've spent probably 8 hours getting the wordpress template to match the joomla template, and it was a tough job - but it does look fantastic now.

The reasons for it being tough are as follows;

Wordpress templates are made by lots of different people - each template can include javascripts, use ccs selectors that are already in use in your template, contain backlinks and just contain bad code that might not look right in your browser.

There's no way the developers can possibly help people modify templates for free, it's far too complicated, they probably can't even modify them and re-release them due to the 'permissions from the creators' issue.

I've got a joomla site with 3 wordpress blogs working and looking perfect - It's taken quite a lot of work getting it to look spot on (I am a bit of a perfectionist though) and I'm very happy with the result - I can't thank the developers enough - my favourite joomla component by a huge margin!

Tony Brown.

It's a very well written component - the latest version doens't include the extra modules that the previous version did ie latest KB articles that you can publish to module posistions.

I would say one thing - because it's written in xajax, I had to drop it from my site.

There is no demo available for download - and there are no refunds for 'incompatibility' reasons.

If you're using a new yootheme, rocketheme or template plazza site - or any other site that has 3rd party extensions, BE VERY CAREFUL.

Statement from the website....

'Joomla Knowlegebase is written and tested in Joomla, and with many other components installed - however it is impossible to be certain that the PHP code you had a *insert 3rd world country* programmer write you for $10 will be compatible

Incompatibility with other 3rd Party Components is NOT a reason to grant a refund! Its impossible for us to be miracle workers! - please refer to the official Refund Policy for further details on getting help.'

I'm using a yootheme template and when the JoomlaKB component was selected - it totally messed up the nice mootools/javascript effects on my site.

There really should be a demo available for download as no refunds and the compatibility is really quite poor.

I bought this component a month and a half ago - and got it up and running in it's basic form.

Trouble is, some of the modules don't work correctly (the latest articles in the knowledgebase for instanse - very important to us).

I submitted a support call and set the priority to urgent (10 days - very slow).

After 2 weeks I hadn't had a response, so I added to the ticket asking for an update.

It's now 5 weeks later, and I've got no response.

This is one of the more expensive components (my version cost me £120) so the lack of support is not just completely unacceptable but also makes this component unusable in a corporate environment.