What is Deluxe Blog Factory?

Deluxe Blog Factory is an user friendly, webmaster friendly blogging extension for Joomla 1.5, with a native and fresh MVC codebase. Full of features, it is a well thought alternative to Wordpress blogging, allowing you to use Joomla versatility and well known blogging conventions - like RSS Syndication, Bookmarking Sites (like Digg, Twitter, Facebook, etc). Featuring a Web 2.0 Dashboard with draggable panes and all-in-reach controls, your blogging experience is truly comfortable and in a luxuriant environment.

With its integrated commenting and following system, Deluxe Blog Factory does not need additional extensions in order to function at full potential. No need to get support from 2 different extension providers that keep pointing fingers at each others program.

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User Avatars, Pingbacks, TinyMCE extensions, Youtube and per user settable Media Upload capacities add to the Extension an amazing set of features and possibilities.

What do you get with Deluxe Blog Factory?

  • A well designed and user friendly Dashboard where you can see the most important information and have access to the most important functions.
  • SEF URLs - native Joomla 1.5 router. Well formed URLs that help your website to gain more relevance.
  • Per user Media Management; users can upload Media files up to a certain Quota (admin settable). Your website users will have the possibility to upload images and media from the frontend without overcrowding your hosting.
  • Multi-Blogger: You can allow all users to create blogs, or just specific user groups.
  • Import Blog Posts into Joomla content. Now the gap between the blogs you host and the content of your site will be bridged.
  • Avatars: users can upload their own avatar or use their community builder avatar.
  • Fully customizable template based on smarty tags; there is NO php knowledge needed at all.
  • Backend Blog administration: you can edit or unpublish any blog entry or any comment from the administrative backend.
  • Follow and be followed by other users.
  • customizable eMail notifications for the significant events in your site (new post, new comment, reported post, etc).
  • Customizable bookmark sites (digg, facebook, twitter, etc).
  • CAPTCHA for comments.
  • Tag Clouds. Tag filtering, tagging search.
  • a lot of free modules to get on your site.
  • Integrated Search Plugin.
  • Deluxe Blog Factory comes also toghether with seven modules: Random Blogs mod, Tag Cloud mod, Latest posts mod, Top Active blogs mod, Top Rated blogs mod, Top Rated posts mod, Search mod.

Check NOW, what bloggers need and Deluxe Blog provides:

  • Frontpage with all posts listed, paged and sorted.
  • Individual per blog listings - every user gets his own blog front page.
  • Possibility to import Blog posts into regular joomla content sections and categories.
  • A lot of Bookmarking sites to choose from and an easy way to add new ones.
  • RSS feeds and syndication.
  • Pings and Tags, pingback and bookmarking.
  • SEF urls.
  • Avatars with Community Builder integration.
  • Templating System / Easy to change templates.
  • Built in Commenting system.
  • Built in Media uploader with per user Disk Quota.

How to use the DEMO site of Deluxe Blog Factory?

You can use the login buttons on the left in order to login into the site as different users and test the features of this extension. You can approve comments, leave comments, add posts, and even login into the administrative backend to see all the management features.