ochBlog

Introduction

Authoring & Content, Blog, Content Construction, Blog integration

ochBlog is a Joomla! extension that gives you and your bloggers all the features you need to create a successful blog.

ochBlog - The Easy Way to Convert Your Joomla! Site into a Fully Fledged Blog Platform

Joomla! used to fall short when it came to blogging, but not anymore. Say farewell to complex extensions (Like K2 and EasyBlog) with their compatibility and vendor-lockin issues. We've seamlessly integrated powerful blogging features into Joomla! itself.

We've built upon Joomla's strong CMS foundation, ensuring compatibility with a wide range of extensions, both now and in the future. No more getting locked into third-party solutions!

Benefits of ochBlog:

Seamlessly convert Articles into Blogs: ochBlog allows you to easily convert your existing Joomla! articles into blog posts. This means that you don't have to start from scratch, and you can keep all of your existing content.
Full Front-end Blog Management: ochBlog provides your bloggers with a full-featured front-end interface for managing their blog posts. This means that they can create, edit, and publish posts without having to access the Joomla! backend.
Differentiate between regular bloggers and pro-bloggers: ochBlog allows you to differentiate between regular bloggers and pro-bloggers. Pro-bloggers can have their own author profile pages, which can showcase their expertise and build their personal brand.
Integrated Avatar and About Text support: ochBlog supports avatars and about text from a variety of sources, including ochBlog, Kunena, Community Builder, and Gravatar. This means that your bloggers can use their existing avatars and about text, without having to duplicate their efforts.
Integrated Authorprofile page: ochBlog provides a built-in author profile page for each blogger. This page can be customized to showcase the blogger's biography, social media links, and other relevant information.
Dynamic Article Info: ochBlog allows you to add dynamic information to your blog posts, such as the blogger's avatar, social sharing buttons, article info, and badges. This information can be fully customized to meet your needs.
Dynamic Featured Article view: ochBlog allows you to create dynamic featured article views, which can include the blogger's avatar, social sharing buttons, article info, and badges.
Dynamic Category Blog view: ochBlog allows you to create dynamic category blog views, which can include the blogger's avatar, social sharing buttons, article info, and badges.
Credits Information: ochBlog allows you to give credits to coauthors, photographers, and other contributors. This information can be displayed above or below the article text, and it can be customized using Joomla! Custom Article Fields.
Dynamic Article Author Info: ochBlog allows you to add dynamic author information to your blog posts, such as the blogger's avatar, bio, author badges, and about text.
Dynamic Author Badges: ochBlog allows you to automatically add author badges to your blog posts, based on the number of blogs written or the influence score.
Content Construction: ochBlog allows you to use values from Kunena user profiles, Joomla! user profiles, Easy-Profile, and Joomla! 3.7.x custom user fields to dynamically replace variables with their values.
Built-in Authors Overview Page: ochBlog provides a built-in authors overview page, which gives you an overview of all of your bloggers. This page can be sorted by name, ID, number of blogs, or random.
Built-in Authorprofile Page: ochBlog provides a built-in author profile page for each blogger. This page can be customized to showcase the blogger's biography, social media links, and other relevant information.
RSS Feed on Authorprofile Page: ochBlog allows you to generate an RSS feed of all of a blogger's articles. This feed can be used to integrate the blogger's articles into other platforms or to allow visitors to subscribe to the blogger's content.
Increase Blogger Commitment with Notification System: ochBlog allows you to automatically notify bloggers when their blog posts reach a certain number of hits. This can help to increase blogger engagement and motivation.
Article List Module: ochBlog provides an article list module that adds avatar, author, and author profile page functionality to the Joomla! articles category module.
Canonical URL: ochBlog allows you to set a canonical URL for each blog post using a Joomla! Custom Article (URL) field. This can help to prevent duplicate content penalties from search engines.

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May be the worse extension i have purchased

Murugappan Ramanathan (10).
Posted on 24 September 2024

Functionality

There is no way to test the functionality of the extension as no tutorials exists nor the documentation of any help.

Ease of use

There is no way to test this of the extension as no tutorials exists nor the documentation of any help.

Support

There is no way to test this of the extension as no tutorials exists nor the documentation of any help.

Documentation

Extremely poor. Seems like someone's notes taken in a design meeting.

Value for money

Is not a value for money extension. Very disappointing product and not usable without any form of tutorial.

I used this to: I want to use this for development of blogs in Joomla. I guess this may not materialize.

Owner's reply: Hi Murugappan,

Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback. I'm sorry to hear about your experience with the extension. As we discussed on the forum prior to your review, it seems some of the issues you are facing are related to initial configuration, which can sometimes be a challenge without familiarity with Joomla's core functionality.

I’d like to reassure you that I personally offered direct assistance on the forum to help resolve your concerns and would still be happy to provide one-on-one support to get everything up and running smoothly. Additionally, we do have a 30-days-money-back guarantee in place, so if you're not satisfied with the product, you are fully protected.

Your input is valuable, and I'll take this opportunity to review the documentation and consider adding tutorials to improve the user experience. Please don’t hesitate to reach out if you’d like further assistance. We’re here to help!

Kind regards,
Ruud

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Version:: 3.0.3
Developer:: Ruud van Lent
Last updated:: Apr 29 2024
7 months ago
Date added:: May 18 2017
License:: GPLv2 or later
Type:: Paid download
Includes:: c m p
Compatibility:: J4 J5

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