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Introduction

News Channels, Social Profiles, Blog, Microblogging, Social Presence

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! 4.x, 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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Ne fonctionne pas avec les dernières version de Joomla 4



Posted on 01 January 2023
Functionality
Ne fonctionne pas avec les dernières version de Joomla 4. Une erreur est survenue
500 behavior::tooltip not found.
Ease of use
Ne fonctionne pas avec les dernières version de Joomla 4. Une erreur est survenue
500 behavior::tooltip not found.
Support
I used this to: Ne fonctionne pas avec les dernières version de Joomla 4. Une erreur est survenue
500 behavior::tooltip not found.

Super für einen einfachen Blog



Posted on 25 May 2020
Functionality
Installieren, User für den Blog einrichten (soll ja nicht unbedingt der Admin sein), Kathegorien erstellen, und los geht's ...
Ease of use
OK, man muss sich kruz die Einstellungen ansehen, aber läuft es einfach und gut.
Support
Bei einem Problem (eine Funktion fehlte) wurde mir im Forum von thePHP-Factory einfach und schnell geholfen.
Documentation
Dokumentation brauchte ich nicht. Es funktionierte einfach und gut.
I used this to: Einen kleinen privaten Blog, auf welchem ich von meinen persönlichen Erfahrungen rund um Linux, Technik, usw berichte

Great Extension and Great Support



Posted on 11 October 2019
Functionality
This is a full fledged blog component with all necessary functions.
Ease of use
It is user friendly and easily guides the user on what to do. It is very great and does what it says.
Support
Despite being a free extension, support is prompt. The support teal also does not give up till there is a solution for their problem.
Documentation
I used this to: Creating a blog for my website to inform my users of how the website works and new features.

Great Product, great support



Posted on 18 February 2019
Functionality
This is a great blog, it has enough functions to create blog.
It has the additional bonus of being able to export to Joomla
Ease of use
This is not a blog that does 1000 things, most of which very few people would need/require.
Support
I had the need for a change it the raw code, help was available via the support forum.I received a quick, solution that worked.
Documentation
There is online basic documentation.
I used this to: I'm a website developer and have been looking for a useful free blog. This one tick's all the boxes without being overly complex.

Great blog component!



Posted on 10 February 2019
Functionality
Has many functionalities to setup a blog site. Great thanks to the developer.
Ease of use
Very easy to use with a lot of features.
Support
Is so easy to use so far I didn't need any support.
Documentation
Not very extensive but there is no need to be. Easy to setup and run.
I used this to: Setting up a blog site. I really appreciate the time and effort the developer spent to create this excellent component for free.

Good support



Posted on 19 December 2017
Functionality
good plugin for the people who do not want to use joomla's core content functions. Good support!
Ease of use
overall good and easy to use even for noobies
Support
very good and responsive!
Documentation

Unable to contact



Posted on 29 August 2017
Functionality
Its a free install but once I installed I had all the functionality except the ability to add an image to a blog post. This is important.
Ease of use
Easy enough to use but I couldn't add a photo to blog posts.
Support
Unable to make contact with support from their site to find why image files can't be added to posts. I'm uninstalling from my site.
Documentation
I used this to: Blog
Owner's reply: Unfortunately, this review is a complete BOGUS and is misleading other Joomla users, as even the reviewer himself admits on our forum (under the name John Wilson) that he did not contacted us before placing the review, just placed the BAD REVENGE review for the simple reason that we do not provide him an email address on our pages for the support of this free product and he has to use our forum to obtain support.

http://thephpfactory.com/forum/blog-factory/19395-beginner-questions

We think that given the fact that we maintain and developed this products for the last 8 years, constantly offered fast product support for all users always for free, proves that our support is one of the best out there. We offer the support for free products only in our forum, so that other users might benefit also from it, having so an important knowledge-base, beside the product documentation which is available on our pages.

BlogFactory, an excellent free product



Posted on 25 September 2016
Functionality
blog extension solution good engineered and technically atop
Ease of use
very intuitive
Support
the support team delivers a great work, even if sometimes with delay in reacting
Documentation
for a free product, satisfactory, even though per sé incomplete
I used this to: evaluation of a new site by the internauts

Great piece of software



Posted on 01 June 2016
Functionality
For my purposes it does everything that I need. I just wanted a simple blog to integrate with my Joomla site to avoid external blogs.
Ease of use
Very simple to set up and us.
Support
For a free piece of software the support is excellent. I have only had one question so far and it was dealt with within 24 hours.
Documentation
Not bad. As good as or better tha most.
I used this to: Personal blog on my websites to avoid using an external Wordpress site.

Pretty Good Blog Extensions



Posted on 15 February 2016
Functionality
Good. Does what it says.
Ease of use
Overall good. The feature to add blog and categories can be confusing. Doesn't work well in some browsers when adding articles, editing.
Documentation
It is okay. Some common, simple questions not answered.
I used this to: Guest blogs, site announcements
Owner's reply: Hi Theresa!

Thank you for all the appreciation! We would be grateful though if you revise the rating for the extension support. I think it was a mistake to give 0 points, on the grounds that: "Haven't needed it." If you did not needed any support, that means that all previous signaled issues were fixed by us, and we do provide a professional support to our extensions.

Thank you again!
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Blog Factory

Version:
4.4.6
Developer:
thePHPfactory
Last updated:
Sep 14 2020
2 years ago
Date added:
Nov 19 2014
License:
GPLv2 or later
Type:
Free download
Registration:
Yes
Includes:
c m
Compatibility:
J3 J4
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