Deluxe Blog Factory is an user friendly, webmaster friendly blogging extension for Joomla 1.5, with a native and fresh MVC codebase. Full of features, it is a well thought alternative to Wordpress blogging, allowing you to use Joomla versatility and well known blogging conventions - like RSS Syndication, Bookmarking Sites (like Digg, Twitter, Facebook, etc). Featuring a Web 2.0 Dashboard with draggable panes and all-in-reach controls, your blogging experience is truly comfortable and in a luxuriant environment.

Deluxe Blog Factory 1.2.0 released on September 7, 2010.   

• New feature: added Gravatar support.
• New feature: added System plugin for SEF for urls like: www.xx.com/userblog or www.xx.com/userpost 
• Attention! For the plugin to work correctly, other SEF components/plugins must be disabled!
  
• Warning! With the new system plugin, the URLs of posts and blogs have changed, so the old ones are not compatible anymore!

Deluxe Blog Factory 1.1.3 released on June 19, 2010.  

• New feature: enable/disable (from backend) dashboard panels.
• Optimisation: own jQuery library for no interference with other components.
• Fixed issue regarding multiple files uploads, media management (explore folder), unpublished blogs/posts showing on frontend, restoring backup from older version 1.1.1 (php5 to php4).