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! 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!
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