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June 8, 2012 at 10:10 am #104098
chrisjg
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@JoshWhite

OK, here goes…

Joomla has these things out of box that wordpress doesn’t

  • URL rewriting

  • URL redirect management

  • Search engine friendly URL’s

  • bulk emailing

  • ACL (customise groups for users, writers, readers, etc)

  • Banner management

  • Contact manager

  • inter-user private messaging

  • web-link management

  • breadcrumbs

  • Article settings (for each article, as well as globally)

    • Customise the ‘Read more…’ text

    • Featured article (gives prominance to article)

    • Configure the front-end edit screen view

    • Specify in-article intro text (not an extra blurb) as well as page-breaks

    • Meta data – description and tags

    • Robots instruction

    • Content rights

    • Who can view it (ACL)

    • Turn on/off

      • Titles

      • Linked Titles

      • Show Intro Text

      • Show Category

      • Link Category

      • Show Parent

      • Link Parent

      • Show Author

      • Link Author

      • Show Create Date

      • Show Modify Date

      • Show Publish Date

      • Show Navigation

      • Show Icons

      • Show Print Icon

      • Show Email Icon

      • Show Voting

      • Show Hits

      • Show Unauthorised Links

      • Positioning of the Links

Menu items can link to any of the following (* items are also available in wordpress menus, some functions are performed by default widgets)

  • Contacts

    • List All Contact Categories

    • List Contacts in a Category

    • Single Contact

    • Featured Contacts

  • Articles

    • Archived Articles (a widget for WP does this)

    • * Single Article *

    • List All Categories (a widget for WP does this)

    • * Category Blog *

    • Category List (a widget for WP does this)

    • Featured Articles

    • Create Article

    • Smart Search

    • * Search *

  • Newsfeeds

    • List All News Feed Categories

    • List News Feeds in a Category

    • Single News Feed

    • Search

  • * Search Form or Search Results *

  • Users Manager

    • Login Form (a widget for WP does this)

    • User Profile

    • Edit User

    • Profile Registration Form (a widget for WP does this)

    • Username Reminder

    • Request Password Reset

  • Weblinks

    • List All Web Link Categories

    • List Web Links in a Category

    • Submit a Web Link

  • Wrapper

  • Iframe Wrapper

  • System Links

  • * External URL *

  • Menu Item Alias

  • Text Separator

If I have made any mistakes, please don’t flame me, it is not intentional. Corrections are welcome,

This is a quick list of all the things I can think of that are not done by a default WordPress install that a default Joomla install does. I was going to do a default install of each one, but have not got the time, energy or inclination.

Chris.