WordPress Wrapped In Joomla Only $80

[Jeffro]

I don't know what to make of this story only that it seems like April fools but it's not. WordPress wrapped in Joomla to provide Joomla with a powerful blogging engine that seemingly can not be taken care of by Joomla.

http://www.cmswire.com/cms/events/cm...mla-004524.php

This has to beg the question, why not just use WordPress over Joomla in the first place? What do you guys and gals think?

[Ryan]

WordPress still doesn't have some of the advanced functionality of Joomla (and it may never do), for instance WordPress is not particularly good at dealing with multiple contributors to a site and requires integration of other software to achieve some of the same effects that Joomla can do out of the box (ie: forums etc.).

[Remkus]

@Ryan It may be true that WordPress could use a more solid and flexible handling of different sort of users like Joomla! does, but WordPress makes up for that in 9 of the other areas.

Having worked a lot of with Joomla! (and even Mambo) in the past, I now never used it anymore for WordPress can handle pretty much any type of website I would like to create. So yes, Jeff, I agree with you. Why bother setting up Joomla up with bridge to encorporate WordPress when WordPress can do it on it's own..

[Ryan]

@Remkus - If WordPress is not capable of creating the type of site that you want then there isn't much point in using it.

I know someone who was talking about integrating WordPress into SilverStripe. I'm not sure how far they've gotten with that project. SilverStripe is a far more worthy competitor to WordPress than Joomla, so is probably a better comparison.

[andrea_r]

Pure overkill.

they've even made a Joomla wrapper for WPMU. I can't imagine how it performs.

[bradgillap]

I wouldn't expect support for something like this to last over the ages or it to be widely accepted into popularity.

[andrea_r]

You know what it reminds me of? The overdone meme/macro with Ice-T from pimp my Ride and the "yo dawg we heard you like..."

As in "Yo Dawg! We heard you like CMS so we put a CMS in yer CMS!"

[DannyGSmith]

Joomla has never had a good component for comments, and even the add ons leave a lot to be desired. I just think for the casual end-user, joomla is too confusing, so that would just make it worse, much less having to keep two sets of passwords, unless the tie the two togehter with a bridge.