Blog
K2 (FREE)
K2 is a great replacement for Joomla's standard content system. It gives users an out-the-box improved content management, allowing you to easily transform any Joomla site into a news/magazine style layout.
Features at a glance:
- Nested level categories
- Tags
- Easily add images, galleries, videos and attachments to your content items
- Integration with 3rd party commenting systems
- Author profiles
- Sub-templates
- Frontend editing
- Powerful plugin API
- The ability to add additional fields to a content item
FlexiContent (FREE)
FlexiContent is a Content Construction Kit, which is laymans terms means its a tool that allows you to create your own custom content types. Instead of being limited to Joomla's standard content management, you are now able to build everything from simple to complex content layouts, which helps you maintain consistency throughout your sites content and substantially quicker turn around time in data entry.
Features at a glance:
- Unlimited nested categories (with multi-map support)
- Tags
- Versioning
- Content workflow
- Advanced theming engine
- Fulltext and boolean search
- Frontend content filters
- Advanced Joomfish support
Wordpress for Joomla ($79)
This extension gives you the best of both worlds, by integrating Wordpress into your Joomla and Morph powered site. It installs like any other Joomla extension and maintains the native Wordpress admin interface, by opening the admin in a new window, so if you have ever used Wordpress before, you will be right at home!
Features at a glance:
- Blog content is loaded inside Joomla's component output, so all the theming is handled by Joomla
- Automatic syncing of users (ie, registered Joomla users can comment without registering again)
- Link to any category, tag, page or user from Joomla's Menu Manager
- Cross polinate your modules and widgets
- Native comments without needing any 3rd party extensions
- Publish posts using a bookmarklet
- Supports the official Wordpress iPhone app
- XML-RPC Interface for remote publishing (like from a destop application)
MyBlog (Starting at $35)
MyBlog is a feature-filled, simple to use, user friendly and powerful blog component for the Joomla! CMS. MyBlog features front-end blog editing with Dashboard, RSS feeds, Technorati pings, Trackbacks, support for multiple blog users, avatar support for Gravatar and Community Builder and much more.
- Integrates with JomSocial and JomComment
- Built-in image browser, where you can insert new image with 1 single click
- Assign categories and multiple tags to any entry
- Easily embed video from various sources
- Filter blog posts by user, tags, or keywords
- Simple and intuitive Dashboard for users to manage their blog posts, write or edit a new entry.
- Fast templating system, similar to JomComment's
- Avatar support (SMF, gravatar, Community Builder)
- Simple & intuitive dashboard for users to manage their blog posts, write or edit a new entry.
- Supports multiple authors
- Filter blog posts by user, tags, or keywords
Commenting
JomComment (Starting at $20)
A must for every website, JomComment is the highly praised and popular component for Joomla!. SPAM is history with JomComment's comprehensive SPAM protection. JomComment features track-back support and is extendable with other components too. Customize JomComment's template to fit in with the rest of your website.
- Ajax based
- Built in spam protection
- Integrates with other extensions
- Gravatrar support
- Multilingual
- Automatic word-censor
- Easy comment moderation
- Lets you import from other comment systems
- Templating system
JComment (FREE)
JComment is a simple, easy to use comment system that integrates with a number of extensions and also sports a nice a zippy ajax interface. Definitely the simpler of the two, it still comes packed with some great features that make it a viable option for those looking to avoid the price tag.
- Toggle display on specific categorie or content items
- Optionally set comments from existing user groups to automatically publish
- Built in spambot and flood protection
- Support for BBCODE
- Optional comments pagination
- Importing from 16 other commenting extensions
- Automatic notification of new comments and replies
- Frontend editing of comments
- Templating system
- Multilingual support
Discussion Forum
Kunena (FREE)
Kunena, translated from Swahili meaning "to speak", arose out of a fork of the former Fireboard forum with a new team and some of the previous developers, including several Joomla core developers. Kunena is an easy to use discussion forum that integrates perfectly with your Morph powered site.
- Discussion and category views
- Templating system
- Native SEF support
- Multiple attatchments in posts
- Joomfish support
Ninjaboard (FREE)
Ninjaboard is a revolutionary, native forum component for Joomla 1.5, and has been built to take advantage of the new MVC framework in Joomla 1.5. This gives it a much stronger and more easily expandable base of code than most other forum components. It is also able to make use of the extensive joomla 1.5 API.
- Awesome Chameleon "auto" templating system
- Manage multiple configuration sets
- Advanced profile management
- Custom fields in forums
- Interchangeable CSS, image, style and emoticon sets/li>
- Moderation of forums, topics and posts
- Access control over different forums
- Cutting edge security and performance enhancements
- Advanced user group management
Social Engine
JomSocial ($149)
JomSocial is a native social publishing platform for Joomla!, that allows you to build your own community with ease. Create custom profile, maintain groups, social networking tools, 3rd party apps support, user points, private messaging and much more!
- Amazon S3 storage support
- Enhanced privacy support
- Interactive photo & video galleries
- Integration with Facebook Connect
- MyBlog integration
- Customizable user profiles
- Private messaging system
- Friend-buddy system
- Enhanced activity stream
- Groups
- 3rd party apps & plugins
Anahita (FREE for the base social engine)
Anahita is a light and scalable open source solution for building all kinds of custom social networks!
- Rich & elegant user profiles
- Flexible social graphing
- Intelligent activity updates
- Organic privacy manager
- Translatable interfaces & messages
- Public messaging
- Notifications & requests
- Fully customizable look & feel
- Follows Open Social Standards
- Works with Amazon Cloud Storage
- OpenID SignIn (Facebook Connect in the works)
- Plugable apps for social galleries, discussions & more
eCommerce
Tienda (FREE for the Community Edition)
Tienda is a complete ecommerce extension for Joomla. Tienda is not a fork or bridge; it is a brand new extension designed and written from scratch on Joomla's MVC framework and can therefore be easily modified or themed using Joomla's templates. Modelling their features after the popular eCommerce platform Magento, Tienda fills a long standing void in the Joomla-verse.
- Sell physical & digital products
- Unlimited, nested categories
- Product reviews, tags, associations & galleries (w/ftp upload option)
- Volume based pricing
- Multiple currencies
- Multiple payment & shipping options
- Publication dates for products
- Stock levels according to attributes
- Frontend layouts for order history, address book, stored payment methods & viewed products.
- Easy to user admin interface with lots of productivity tools
- Coupons **
- Gift certificates **
- Wishlists **
- Product attribute templates **
- Product bundles **
- Featured products **
- Product comparisons **
- Multiple vendors **
- Stored carts for reordering **
- User profiling (for product recommendations) **
- Automated user management emails **
- Product availability notifications **
- Integration with 3rd party applications **
** indicates features that will be included in the Enterprise Edition