Hello Digitalpoint, I have been blogging from circa ~A Year. Since then, I have learned a great deal about WordPress, but about a week ago have started investigation Joomla. For a while now, i have been a little tired with WP lack of customization options for the site design itself, with the requirement of learning WP script/options in order to fully customize a site. Since my year of blogging, i have learned PHP, and Javascript; and have found a Joomla theme that is really to my liking. I have for a long time wanted to incorporate a Forum on my blog, where users can share and interact, (It's the Video Game Niche), but also be able to run their own little "blogs", or maybe a submit form/contest type-thing where users submit content and an article is chosen to be posted on the main site, and giving the author credit. (can be a forum function i guess??) How hard would it be to implement something like this in Joomla? (I have heard Joomla is more community-based, so i guessed that implementing it would be easier than implementing it in WP) I just wanted advice; Would it be worth it to switch to Joomla? How would any writers react, how hard is it to learn how to update posts for a freelance writer? How is it with SEO in Joomla, i have heard talk that SEO in Joomla is not as "advantageous" as WP SEO.....is there any truth in this? (Personally i think with the right Joomla extensions it doesn't matter, but I want to make sure thanks --Nubix
White WordPress is targeted to posting blog content, Joomla is more member oriented and you can find multiple components for member features. http://extensions.joomla.org/ If you still want to use WordPress you can take a look at BuddyPress plugin for frontend member functionality and also check related forum/group discussion plugins. http://wordpress.org/plugins/ Browsing available listings and finding the right extensions for your project is up to you.
It boils down to the tool you are more familiar with. Don't expect to be a jack of all trade, if there is anything you can do, outsource.
Hello nubix223, If you need to build more complex website I would recommend you switching to Joomla. It's a powerful CMS with tons of built-in features and extensions. The SEO tools are highly adjustable and you can fine tune them to work the best for your niche. Personally I use AceSEF, which is paid component, but worth each $ spent. It is upgrading the built-in Joomla SEO engine giving you ability to control the metadata, sitemap, tags, create internal links and use social bookmarks. Joomla supports few forum engines you can check here: http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/communication/forum You can also use a bridge to phpBB. For converting your blog to Joomla you could review and try the extensions such as JConverter - WordPress to Joomla Conveter (http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/migration-a-conversion/data-import-a-export/10237).
If you need forum for joomla, i suggest you kunena forum extension... I used it on my gaming website, and it was awesome... and about SEO, it's not that hard... i was big noob when I started with it, and it was pretty simple...
Wow!, thanks for all the imput, I think i will be switching to joomla very soon. Working with Sub-domains right at this moment to get the hang of it a bit before I start anything with my whole blog, although so far i am loving it,
I think you won't regret switching to Joomla, if you know also php you'll find that customizing the code it's much easier than in Wordpress.