Joomla Basics for newbie poker affiliates

[Gaben86]

Just to let you know you can do all of them in wordpress (not sure about the tracking system). And if you can think of something that isn't available you will definitely be able to find someone who can make a plugin for it.

About 2 months ago I tried to find these plugins but I had no results. Can you link it? But only the serious ones.

(Of course you can hire someone to make a brand new cms for you...)

[sipka]

I was playing around with Joomla some time ago, and I stopped using it as a possible cms when I found out that you can assign only one category to an article. I am not sure it has changed or not since then.
If Joomla could use more than one categories then I would seriously consider using it.

[Gaben86]

I was playing around with Joomla some time ago, and I stopped using it as a possible cms when I found out that you can assign only one category to an article. I am not sure it has changed or not since then.
If Joomla could use more than one categories then I would seriously consider using it.

EDIT: Missread it

[TheShortStack]

Thanks for the intro - great post, and really useful!

I was another one who started learning Joomla a couple of years ago and ended up switching to WP. One of the reasons for it was because I wasn't totally convinced about the SEO.

I love the way that WP automatically re-writes your .htaccess so that you can get search friendly URL's like:

yourdomain.com/pokerstars-bonus

I could never achieve that in Joomla. I always ended up having to have something like:

yourdomain.com/index.php/pokerstars-bonus

Was I just being a muppet??

Suddenly having had a look through the RocketThemes available, I'm tempted to give it another shot.

[Gaben86]

I could never achieve that in Joomla. I always ended up having to have something like:

yourdomain.com/index.php/pokerstars-bonus

An example whit a site what I started to make recently: Freeroll Tournaments

With Joomla 1.5 you can do almost everything. Unfortunately my biggest site in Joomla 1.0 and I have the same problem like you had - I cannot fix the url...

[Viriatu]

I could never achieve that in Joomla. I always ended up having to have something like:

yourdomain.com/index.php/pokerstars-bonus

Was I just being a muppet??

Yes you were just being a muppet .
Far as wp goes its a limited ONE PoINT site and this is the issue i see here people using WP dont understand the concept of joomla, it is not a one point site its a CMS allowing you to master and link your navigation in a total different form. Plus the community makes some scripts functions that really worth your time in mastering it.

Fixing the URL, well that is a pain because you would have to work on your ht file and use the component to write new meta and URL leaving the index thing behind.... i made it once and its boring but once done i have to say my serps got much better...

Regarding the categories yes its true, one article inside one categorie and section, this was the reason i insisted in the site structure, section /categories to be important because they cant later on define how you display certain articles\categories on some menu or module position.

Some more reasons i think joomla is better than WP?

Well wordpress is a blog and thats about it.
If you want to put a forum in your wordpress i dont think you can or have, although i use forum in my sites with joomla but not the community builder i use SMF in a subdomain, joomla can do this for you.
If you want to change your joomla site to a blog layout its easy, turning you WP site to a content management system is impossible.
Joomla looks and feels more professional, and motivates you to make better sites i think.

[sipka]

Regarding the categories yes its true, one article inside one categorie and section, this was the reason i insisted in the site structure, section /categories to be important because they cant later on define how you display certain articles\categories on some menu or module position.

Yes, I remember the same, I tried to achieve some grouping for one casino like it is a US casino, RTG casino, Credit Card accepting casino, but I couldn't figure out how to make these kind of groupings, so I can list my articles using these "filters". I am not a php guru, so I guess someone with a better programming knowledge can find out the way to overcome this, so I left Joomla hanging though I really liked the admin interface.

I use Textpattern and for some newest sites WP, that don't require a lot of fancy unique things just displaying simple articles and pages.

[gamingedge]

My current site uses joomla 1.5. I did find it really easy to learn and pickup and got the whole extension module thing down pretty fast. My only problem was SEO which has caused my site to go to shits lol. Now im debating wither or not if its worth a fix (paying a professional for help) or starting over.

My reccomendation, if you know how to get the seo part done joomla is well worth it.

[leporello]

Joomla is a far superior tool to Wordpress. It's not even close. It's problems with SEO have been well documented in the past. Now there are 0 issues. Use sef friendly urls and mod_access rewrite in global configuration.

Use simple meta management suite for controlling title tags and other meta if you need to (this also allows for simple insertion of GA and Webmaster Tools codes). Xmap can be used for sitemap generation.

Really wordpress is like an old dinosaur compared to joomla.

So is there any negatives? Of course. Joomlas major downfall is in its reliance on templates. Editing the css or modules is a difficult task and it is a steep learning curve. If you find a good template then great, but for me every Joomla site I've built Ive had to have a custom template built (this is fine because i have a fantastic coder).

[gamingedge]

Joomla is a far superior tool to Wordpress. It's not even close. It's problems with SEO have been well documented in the past. Now there are 0 issues. Use sef friendly urls and mod_access rewrite in global configuration.

Use simple meta management suite for controlling title tags and other meta if you need to (this also allows for simple insertion of GA and Webmaster Tools codes). Xmap can be used for sitemap generation.

Really wordpress is like an old dinosaur compared to joomla.

So is there any negatives? Of course. Joomlas major downfall is in its reliance on templates. Editing the css or modules is a difficult task and it is a steep learning curve. If you find a good template then great, but for me every Joomla site I've built Ive had to have a custom template built (this is fine because i have a fantastic coder).

I wouldn't say the SEO is 100% fixed. There are many probelems with SEO rewriters and modules. Some modules aren't compatible with certain SEO rewriters. However if you do know a coder or can hire one, it is possible to get around the problem but with hours of work.