Joomla and Blogging

Even if I have decided to go for WordPress on this blog I have not completely given up on the idea on using Joomla for blogging.  

To get working comments with Joomla one can use JComments from JoomlaTune. JComments is released under the GNU GPL license and is distributed for free. JComments seems to have all required features that I would expect from good comments components. 

One of the other complaints I have with Joomla and blogging is the ability to use remote blogging tools like Live Writer on Windows or MarsEdit and Blogo on Mac. Some might not consider this as a problem as one can always use the online web editor to write and post.  There is a description on the MarsEdit support forum on how to setup MarsEdit with Joomla.  See the link for more details.

One other problem with Joomla and blog posts is that a post in WordPress can belong to multiple categories whereas in Joomla an article is what a blog post is mapped to can only belong to one category.  Remote blogging tools allow one to set multiple categories but then the question is what category will it end up in. So the rule is to only set single category on blog posts.

The metaWeblog API plug-in used in the description seems also to have its bugs when it comes to categories. In the setup for the plug-in one can specify the default category to be used for posts. Initially I assumed that one only could post to a single category from a remote blogging tool but it should rather be that this is the category used when the blog post does not have a category set or if the category specified cannot be found.

At least testing with posting from Live Writer did not work and the blog post will always end up in the default category.

I have decided not to give up but to try to fix the bug. How hard could it be?
I have found following links and the next step is to setup a Joomla development environment. 
Setting up your workstation for Joomla! development – Part 1
Setting up your workstation for Joomla! development – Part 2

 Stay tuned. I will let you all know when I have fixed the bug.