Do you use Wordpress or Joomla for your website?

Joomla or Wordpress??

  • Joomla

    Votes: 11 15.5%

  • Wordpress

    Votes: 41 57.7%

  • other

    Votes: 19 26.8%
  • Total voters
    71
Trev Rich

Trev Rich

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Yes
As it says on the tin really.
I've just really discovered Wordpress, yes I've always known about it, just never taken enough time to look at it properly.
I had always used Joomla because it's what I knew.
Technically Joomla has much more to offer, whereas Wordpress has the ease of use.
But which do you use? And what gallery plugin have you found the best?
Feel free to post links to your site :)
 
I'm just re-working mine at the moment..so it's a bit of a mess.

I was initially using Wordpress with Gallery2 + WPG2 plugin which worked quite nicely, albeit took a fair bit of template fiddling to get integrated nicely.

Then I decided I wanted more of a photoblog site so I bought ProPhoto a couple months ago which I am only just now getting round to sorting all out properly. It's a lovely piece of software though, definitely worth coughing up for if you want a nice blog imo :)
 
Tried Joomla and was a bit overwhelmed...

Wordpress i found easier because it starts with nothing and you just add what you want.

That said i may have just go Joomla wrong from the start..!
 
All word press here and the NEXTGEN plug in for my galleries

I have photocart installed as well for client images as a sale solution
 
mid_gen said:
I'm just re-working mine at the moment..so it's a bit of a mess.

I was initially using Wordpress with Gallery2 + WPG2 plugin which worked quite nicely, albeit took a fair bit of template fiddling to get integrated nicely.

Then I decided I wanted more of a photoblog site so I bought ProPhoto a couple months ago which I am only just now getting round to sorting all out properly. It's a lovely piece of software though, definitely worth coughing up for if you want a nice blog imo :)
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Yeah I really can't be bothered with integrating Gallery2 with either platform.
It seems to be a massive gap in the industry. So many photographers are looking for an open source way to sell images, and no one seems to be making one?
I looked at prophoto but wahey!!! pricey!
 
crashtestmac said:
Tried Joomla and was a bit overwhelmed...

Wordpress i found easier because it starts with nothing and you just add what you want.

That said i may have just go Joomla wrong from the start..!
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With Joomla you need to strip out the articles, extra menus, categories / sections and start with a clean looking site.
 
Trev Rich said:
I looked at prophoto but wahey!!! pricey!
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pricey but does everything I want and is far better then most of the solutions out there - and although its is expensive its a one off hit as opposed to many of them which charge a monthly fee and commission on sales. When I choose it was actually cheaper then 6 months on one of the popular online solutions

Hugh
 
boyfalldown said:
pricey but does everything I want and is far better then most of the solutions out there - and although its is expensive its a one off hit as opposed to many of them which charge a monthly fee and commission on sales. When I choose it was actually cheaper then 6 months on one of the popular online solutions

Hugh
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Does it give you the option to bulk upload images and apply a price to them all?
 
MattyH sent me a link to wordpress but I was unsure what to do with it.
 
boyfalldown said:
pricey but does everything I want and is far better then most of the solutions out there - and although its is expensive its a one off hit as opposed to many of them which charge a monthly fee and commission on sales. When I choose it was actually cheaper then 6 months on one of the popular online solutions

Hugh
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Looking through their site.. there doesn't seem to be an option to sell images??
 
Trev Rich said:
Does it give you the option to bulk upload images and apply a price to them all?
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yes via FTP to specified server directories. It'll the process them into the system for you and you can create price lists and apply them on a per gallery or sub gallery basis.

You can also (if you wish) add early bird or bulk discounts
 
Trev Rich said:
Do you already have webspace Wheels?
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No not yet, the wonderful MattyH is giving me a website, and sorry Matty I thought I had to do something with it but it was way over my head. I did read it how ever :bonk:
 
I use Pixelpost for my photoblog but thinking of moving to Wordpress when I have chance. I've used Joomla for another website I made and it was way too complicated for its own good ;-)
 
Puz said:
I use Pixelpost for my photoblog but thinking of moving to Wordpress when I have chance. I've used Joomla for another website I made and it was way too complicated for its own good ;-)
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Some websites require the features and complexity for it to work. But for photographers it seems Wordpress is the way to go. Much easier to install stuff on the fly too.

Now all we need is a good "Jalbum" type gallery featuring paypal selling.

Btw... is there a way to "wrap" a site inside wordpress like you can in joomla?
 
I had a small go with Wordpress and was impressed as you say on being able to install stuff on the fly! None of this download, ftp, untar etc etc. Not that I mind as its part of my job but 'simples' is nice sometimes..
 
Trev Rich said:
Now all we need is a good "Jalbum" type gallery featuring paypal selling.
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Turtle skin for Jalbum has a paypal system on it.

I tried it and it looks great but i have not had the time to investigate further.
 
Puz said:
I had a small go with Wordpress and was impressed as you say on being able to install stuff on the fly! None of this download, ftp, untar etc etc. Not that I mind as its part of my job but 'simples' is nice sometimes..
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Joomla really should change to that format, you are basically doing the same but far simpler!
 
I have a stand alone website and two different pages on Wordpress and have links to the others on each. I am also on Myspace etc..

I put small pics onto Photobucket and link to them for wordpress etc using HTML.
 
I have a techie friend..say it would be easy to design a component for Wordpress or Joomla, will have to push him, he would only have to charge a tiny amount to make a small fortune.
 
another one for wordpress + NEXTGen gallery :thumbs:
 
I use pixelpost for my blog and joomla for my site. The main thing I love about Joomla is the 'wrapper' feature, where I can just have my blog appear as a page of my site with a few clicks of the mouse....also useful for galleries, as I just export them from Lightroom and add them to a menu in joomla and job done they appear as a new page.
 
Jimmy_Lemon said:
I use pixelpost for my blog and joomla for my site. The main thing I love about Joomla is the 'wrapper' feature, where I can just have my blog appear as a page of my site with a few clicks of the mouse....also useful for galleries, as I just export them from Lightroom and add them to a menu in joomla and job done they appear as a new page.
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This is whats bugging me about Wordpress, no "wrapper" :(
If there are no decent gallery plugins then a wrapper is a must.
 
Trev Rich said:
Can you sell photos with pixelpost?
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Yeah, should be able to. I personally don't but after a quick search on their forums there appears to be a couple of addons (one for paypal etc - http://www.pixelpost.org/extend/addons/buy-with-paypal/). Some templates might have that feature built in, not sure.

The particular template im using (Darkmatter - free version) is not allowed for use on commercial sites though. They do a Pro version which you have to pay for, which can be used for commercial sites.
 
CraigyBoy86 said:
Yeah, should be able to. I personally don't but after a quick search on their forums there appears to be a couple of addons (one for paypal etc - http://www.pixelpost.org/extend/addons/buy-with-paypal/). Some templates might have that feature built in, not sure.

The particular template im using (Darkmatter - free version) is not allowed for use on commercial sites though. They do a Pro version which you have to pay for, which can be used for commercial sites.
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:thumbs: looks a bloody mare to do though :(
 
ive used joomla a lot, its a bit complex but works when you get into it, has its own gallery etc, ive also got a couple of wordpress sites im doing.

if you like joomla, look at exlis, its pretty similar, but doesnt have the front end edit option..
 
matty said:
ive used joomla a lot, its a bit complex but works when you get into it, has its own gallery etc, ive also got a couple of wordpress sites im doing.

if you like joomla, look at exlis, its pretty similar, but doesnt have the front end edit option..
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sounds interesting :lol:
 
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