INTEGRATING JOOMLA WITH WORDPRESS

Welcome to the first of many tutorials in templating Joomla & WordPress. It was our intention to start offering tutorials on how to build custom templates in Joomla and WordPress for a while now and we will be adding more and more tutorials over time. In this first tutorial we will be covering a common question, which is, how do you seamlessly integrate the navigation from Joomla in to WordPress? There are many different methods to do this and one great solution is CorePHPs Joomla extension to fully integrate WordPress in to your website. If you have $69.99 to spare, this is probably the best option to use as there are no other extensions that come close to this integration.

Our method is free and just takes little time and patience. In this tutorial, our setup is as follows:

• Joomla is installed in the root of our website /public_html/ ( Joomla 1.5.25 )
• WordPress is installed in a folder /blog/ ( WordPress 3.3.1 )
• Each use their own database independent of the other ( You can install them on the same database with different prefixes )

The menu component we’re using is swMenuFree for Joomla 1.5 which will be used to build and style the navigation for the main website. Once you have downloaded the component, proceed to your admin area on your Joomla website and install it. After you have successfully installed swMenuFree, you will now have to configure and style your menu.

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January 21, 2012 at 4:55 pm | Tutorials | No comment

THE IMPORTANCE OF SOCIAL MEDIA

Just about everyone you speak to uses some form of social media, whether it be Facebook, Twitter, Linked In or one of many others. If you’re running a business, it’s important to engage with your customers and one easy way of doing that is by having a presence on leading social media sites.

We’re going to use Facebook for our example and explain to you the benefits of having a fan page. Fan pages work by users “liking” your page which then shows in their friends newsfeeds and in turn, maximises the potential for generating more “likes” from users curious about their friends endorsement of your page. Another interesting fact is that people are more inclined to buy a product or use a service that has been endorsed by one of their friends or someone they know as they trust them.

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January 14, 2012 at 7:20 pm | Social Media | No comment

RWD REBRAND: HAPPY NEW YEAR

First of all, we’d like to wish a very happy new year to all of our clients and thank you all for your custom, past and present. Over the festive holiday we’ve been very busy rebranding Recoil Web Design. We’ve redesigned our logo, the website and rebuilt it from the ground up. We wanted to showcase what we’re about as a company and the quality of our work to come in 2012. We’ve utilised Joomla for the main site and WordPress for this blog and created a bridge between them to show off the capabilities of content management at the core of a website. We specialise in content managed sites and it’s what we will provide to all of our customers.

 

Let us know what you think of the new site, good or bad, we’d love to hear from you!

January 5, 2012 at 2:02 pm | News | No comment