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Written by Wilco Jansen Friday, 21 November 2008 18:53

Amy Stephen started the JPress project. JPress is a suite of blogging extensions for Joomla! 1.5 that can be installed at one time. JPress is currently in pre-alpa stage and offers a lot of features already. JPress can be configured to re-size images to ensure a maximum size. Images can be automatically added to image-less posts. It is easy to insert Video and Audio, withxHTML compliant results and still use Joomla!'s text filtering security. There are smiley's of course, and Slimbox and Phatfusion Gallery, amongst other tools. Of course, JPress works with other extensions, as well. Posts can be handled in a number of ways. JPress provides automated pings, email subscriptions, and also will tweet your post title and a TinyURL to Twitter.

Engaging site visitors and encouraging repeat visits is essential to a successful blog. JPress offers many features that you can use to help build contributors out of visitor using comments, Social Bookmarking, Ratings, Gravatar support for both post authors and commenter's is built in. A Post Date Icon can be added to your posts...the list is endless. A full overview of planned features can be found at the end of this blog (take some time to read, it's very long).

The features are really impressive, and it will be the first fully featured blogging extension with almost all candy you as a blogger want to have. There are more reasons why I am very excited about this initiative, let me try to summarize:

This is a true example of a project driven by members of the Joomla! community. Joining "all together" (Joomla!) makes an open source effort like this a true example on how open source could work. Personally I would really like to see more of these initiatives starting up (mail me when you need inspiration for ideas and suggestions).
The project is using the full power of the Joomla! application and content management framework, combined with the first bullet this is an example how you build real amazing application extensions for Joomla! 1.5.

Amy told me she was considering to present this initiative at the Drupalcon in Washington DC. Sharing the way you can build application with Joomla! 1.5 with a fellow open source content management system, and my excitement suddenly peaked. Amy agreed that it was a good idea for me to join in during the presentation, and so we came up with the idea to do a duo presentation. Drupalcon sessions are voted in by the community members. If you like our idea, and preferable plan to visit the Drupalcon we would like you to vote for this sessions. It will be pretty challenging to do a Joomla! 1.5 presentation at a Drupalcon. The details of our proposed talk (and the location to vote) is : http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/session/joomla-development-and-jpress-blogging-package.

We will probably implement JPress on JFoobar, probably not the full features (because we don't need all) but within Joomla! it's darn easy to decide what to u want to use or not. As JPress progresses we'll most likely will blog on the progression of JPress, next blog about JPress will be done in a couple of days and will cover an overview of the features JPress will offer.

About the author Wilco Jansen

Wilco was born in 1967 in the Netherlands where he still lives. After years of being a programmer Wilco has worked as project manager and IT manager. Discovered Joomla! when he was creating his own content management system, and never lost focus after then. Joined core team as development coordinator in May 2006 just helping to make Joomla! even better then it is already. Wilco has been deeply involved in the Joomla project as Google summer of code program manager 2006, 2007 and 2008 editions, co-organizer of the Google Highly Participation contest in 2008, first ever development coordinator, creator of the Joomla bug squad, member of the board of Open source matters, regular speaker on world wide conference advocating Joomla and much, much more. Wilco has a bachelor degree in business and information engineering and studied Master of Science knowledge and information engineering at the Middlesex University in London.

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There are 5 comments posted.

# 1 - Posted by: David on 2008-11-21 19:47:09

Wow, JPress really sounds great already.

Using Joomla! defalt com_content and enhancing that to be more "blogger" friendly really is preferable over a seperate blogging compnent in my opinion.

I'll definitely vote, and maybe see you guys in March.

Re: Very interesting

# 2 - Posted by: Ivo Apostolov on 2008-11-22 23:08:21

I wish you luck, it is interesting to see the reaction of another community on your job ;)

Re: Hehe, and where is the full list of features?

# 3 - Posted by: Ivo Apostolov on 2008-11-22 23:12:48

Do I miss something or you missed the full list of features? :)

Re: Let's do a Drupalcon

# 4 - Posted by: Arno Zijlstra on 2008-11-22 23:47:47

Stay tuned Ivo, there is more to come :-)

# 5 - Posted by: Wilco Jansen on 2008-11-22 23:54:43

@Ivo: the list is impressive (small understatement). Next week I'll put out a blog with an overview on what JPress currently offers, leaving out the wish-list need at least another blog to cover that one ;-)

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