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Which WordPress plugins work with mojoBlog

Written by Kevin Monday, 24 March 2008

It might be easier to explain which Word Press plugins will not function correctly with mojoBlog.

no wp_users table

ANY wordpress plugin, toolbar extension, desktop app (remote blogging tool) that looks for user/admin info WILL FAIL. No exceptions.
Here's the reason: Wordpress uses a special database table called wp_users. Inside is all the good bits on users, users permissions, passwords, etc.
Joomla uses a similar table, jos_users.
In order to retain full parent(joomla) trasparency and integration mojo uses and shares the table jos_users and DOES NOT use wp_users at all (currently).
Again, this is a beta. There's lot's of logic and functions betwixt joomla and wordpress that still needs to be ironed out.

no Widget support

Prior to Wordpress 2.1 to utilize the newer "wordpress widgets" one needed to download and install Matt's widget plugin. The widget plugin offered function extension classes that allowed developers to write plugins that used these new functions to display plugin data within special template "includes". MojoBlog currently doesn't support widgets but, will in the near future as we release the initial versions of our "themelettes".

no WordPress 2.3+

Word Press plugins developed specifically for the latest iterations of Wordpress that depend on the newer tag structure -vs- the older category structure -may- not work with the current version of mojoBlog. MojoBlog is currently more compatible with wordpress 2.0.1 through 2.2.1 versions.

Get-Post form support

Joomla uses a rather proprietary series of functions to clean, validate and submit form requests often found in contact forms and search bars/modules. Word Press uses similar but disparate functions that return the same results but, using different techniques. As mojoBlog is being developed as an integrated component that functions -inside- the joomla architecture until I can finish converting mojos' libraries to function using joomla I/O routines there'll be scant support for wordpress plugins needing to send/receive user submitted data.

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