Tamka - Joomla!Days NL 2009 #jd09nl

What is Tamka?

• Collection of Extensions that turn Joomla! into a powerful personal or group blogging platform.

• Licensed using the GPL • Available free of charge

Tamka Blog Architecture

• Based on three new, integrated features:– Blog Layout for com_content– Pretty Permanent URLs, like WordPress– Modules that use Menu Item Parameters

New Blog Layout for com_contentMuch more flexibilityto select the posts you want to display.

Pretty Permanent URLs

• One article – One URL – no matter where used.• Tamka URLs are patterned after WordPress – you

select the option desired:– category-alias/article-alias– section-alias/category-alias/article-alias– ccyy/mm/dd/article-alias– Custom combination of any option above

• Tamka uses new Canonical Link Element

Blog Modules

Blog moduleslike the Calendar, Tag Cloud, Latest Comments, etc., use the sameMenu Item Parameter values.

Flexible Commenting• Comments closed after specified # of days• Set min and max comment length• Can close commenting to non-members• Set flood control constraints• Allow All HTML, only specific tags, no HTML,

or Markdown• Convert URLs and email addresses to links• Alternate comment colors and use special

color for author• Follow or No Follow for visitor links• Display Gravatars• Oldest to Newest? Or Newest to Oldest?• Ping? Tweet? And/or Email Comments? • Spam (Recaptcha, Aksimet, Mollom)• Bad word Filters• Ban by IP, email address, name

Comment Moderation

SEO improvements• Site Name appended to the Page Title. • Removal of ‘Generated by Joomla! Meta.’ • Automatic Article Meta Description (if Article Meta is not provided.)• H1 for Article Title. • Follow or Nofollow on Internal Pages, Web links, and Article links. • Accessible Template Overrides. • Google Analytics Tracking Code Plugin• Component/Plugin for defining 301 Redirects for changed URLs• 301 redirect for No WWW. • 301 redirect for variations of home• Minification of CSS and JS

Post and/or Comment Broadcasting

• Ping – 8 Services• Twitter Posting• Email Notification for

Members and Guests who sign up

• URL Shortening – Internal URL 301 Redirects – Bitly– TinyURL– is.gd– tr.im

Blog Bling• Beautiful Template• Social Bookmarks, Blog

Calendar, Tag Cloud, Post Tags, and Smileys

• Automatic Thumbnails and resizing of Images

• Video, Audio, Galleries• Syntax Highlighter• Author Profile and CC Licensing• Gravatars and Post Icons• Tweets from you and/or your

followers

User – Easy to add custom fields

AutomaticallyDisplays inFrontend andAdministrator

AutomaticallyDisplays inFrontend andAdministrator

Personal or Group Blog Platform

• Tamka User Plugin– Create User Blog Option

Parameter

• Works with Joomla! Global Configuration User Settings

• Category automatically created for each Blogger

• Bloggers can only add and update posts in their Category

Tamka Manager

If there are newer packages, click the link to Update your Web site.

If there are newer packages, click the link to Update your Web site.

Learn more about Tamka

• Visit http://tamka.org• Contact us– Twitter @tamkaorg– http://tamka.org/contact

• Use it:– http://tamka.org/learn– http://tamka.org/download

• Report Bugs!– http://tamka.org/bugs– http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/tamka