Wordpress and Easyblog
By Damian Henry on Friday, 28 March 2014
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I have been using WordPress and Joomla together as a dual CMS system. It works great but it just seems that easyblog could be a great alternative for my clients. I am not trying to get into the typcial CMS Blog Debate but I would like to know if there are any major draw backs to using EasyBlog over WordPress.

One draw back I could see is the amount of plugins for Wordpress. But what about indexing -SEO and a lack of features that are found in wordpress but are not in easyblog.

I have just started to play around with easyblog and thus far I am very impressed. Again just trying to get a heads up before I start rolling easyblog into clients sites.
Hi Damian,

I think that it is the other way around - WordPress lacks the features that Joomla+EasyBlog can offer.

Probably the only drawback is that EasyBlog + Joomla will require higher system requirements.

In terms of SEO, things are rock solid.

Main benefit of EasyBlog over WordPress is related to security and SPAM. WordPress leave tons of footprints that are well known by spammers, as well are these footprints are well integrated into spamming/black hat applications.

Hope this will help! These are just my experience running EasyBlog for more than 3 years.

Cheers
Kal
Kaloyan Banev
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Friday, 28 March 2014 12:34
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Hello Damian,

To be honest with you, there are mixed feedbacks on the SEO where some says Wordpress is better and some says Joomla is better but in my experience, it doesn't matter what CMS you choose. What matters most is your content. I have seen companies doing almost close to no SEO optimization and they are always at the top of SERP's simply because of the content that they generate.
Mark
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Friday, 28 March 2014 12:35
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I agree with content when it comes to SEO. I have been using Joomla since 1. 5 and I wouldn't even think of running Wordpress with my clients sites. The main thing for me is I have many clients on Wordpress (blogging) and if I roll them out to Easyblog and it doesn't perform on the SEO level I could be in a world of hell. I have been following easyblog for awhile now and have decided to take the plunge. I am just trying to get the Gotchas out of the way before I am need deep in phone calls

Are you guys using Atrio SEF or any other SEF component with easyblog ? I am currently running 3.0 . What do you guys use for pinging search engines and sitemaps ?
Damian Henry
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Friday, 28 March 2014 13:35
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Hello Damian,

We are running on pure Joomla SEF urls on our site without relying on any 3rd party SEF extensions. Yes, we do use xml-sitemap to generate sitemaps but apart from that, judging from our results, it does seem pretty organic and these sitemaps isn't really that helpful at all.
Mark
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Saturday, 29 March 2014 00:46
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Frankly (I use both) all the bells and whistles aside, EasyBlog is just way more fun to write with than Wordpress. I found this post because I was hoping someone had created a way I could use Easyblog inside of WordPress. Much like the Wordpress for Joomla plug in, but in the reverse.
Jason D McClain
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Wednesday, 04 November 2015 00:27
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Hi Jason,

Thanks for the heads up on this. Currently we do not have any plan to build an easyblog extension for wordpress since it will be quite a headache for us to maintain it in the future.
Ezrul Fazwan
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Wednesday, 04 November 2015 15:45
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