Free Extensions That can easily transform Joomla into a Blog
June 20, 2015
Blogging now has become an important part of website. It has now become a good medium to stay in touch with people. Even today, we can see websites without blogs but are we aware how much they loss are they facing?
No, without blog it is almost impossible to properly communicate with people. Yes, Social media and other marketing ways are available but what a blog can do can’t be done by any other medium. It is a straight way where users directly visit your website either to get knowledge or to know about your product or services.
Some people have website, they also maintain blog but actually they are unaware as to how blogs can be enhanced to draw the attention of people. This is must to know because this will only increase your website traffic.
So, if you have a Joomla website and if you wish to convert it in a blog then here are some extensions for the same:
Joomla extensions to transform it in a blog:
We can see WordPress has good features that can easily help you to create a blog whereas Joomla lacks such features and hence certain extensions are useful to transform your website into a blog. These are as follows:
- Easy Blog: It is one of the powerful Joomla extensions that is used by 50,000 + Joomla sites. This extension can be used to manage personal blogs, company blogs as well as other blogs like as Category and team blog.
Further, this extension comes with various social integrations like as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and more which makes it easier to share your posts on various social networks. It can be considered as the perfect blogging solution for Joomla websites.
- Easy Discuss: It is one of the important Joomla discussion and forum extension that is used to create forums as well as question and answers community on the website easily in an effective manner.
So, from now on if you have any online discussion about any particular topic or if you wish to manage your customers in an effective manner, answer their queries quickly, engage with them in conversions then this extension is perfect for you.
- Section Ex: It is one of the useful Joomla extensions. It displays all articles in particular categories and is used to extend Joomla’s built in Category List Layout. The latest version of this extension includes all security fixes.
This extension is considered to be best to create Frequently Asked Question Pages as well as other such simple directories for your Joomla website.
- Komento: It is an advanced comment extension that allows the visitors to comment on articles, blog posts and product pages.
This extension was developed by Mark Lee and was last updated on June 12, 2015. Due to its powerful features, this Joomla extension was declared winner of Community Choice Extensions.
As compared to other extensions of Joomla, this is one of the safest, secure, lightweight and compatible with all Joomla versions and is available for free. With this extension, one can transfer the comments from Easy Blog and get that display in Komento.
Wind Up
So, with these Joomla blog extensions; one can very easily create blogs in Joomla website and also carry on discussion on the same. Hope, these extensions will help you to make most use of the most useful thing called Blog.
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