Joomla vs. WordPress: field overview
This page lines up which Newsroom field ends up where for a Joomla and a WordPress connection. This is deliberately a short overview, not a replacement for the full explanation — each row links through to the page where that topic is covered in detail.
Overview table
| Newsroom field | Joomla | WordPress |
|---|---|---|
| Title | Article title | Post title |
| Content before “Read more” | Intro text | First part of the content, before the “Read more” point |
| Content after “Read more” | Full text (separate field) | Second part of the content, after the “Read more” point |
| No “Read more” point placed | Everything goes in the intro text | Whole content unsplit — see Content and the “Read more” split |
| SEO description | Meta description field | Manually entered SEO description; if left empty, Newsroom falls back to the intro text, truncated to 155 characters — see Publishing to your channels |
| Keywords | Meta keywords field | Added separately as WordPress tags (each keyword becomes its own tag) — see Tags and categories |
| Category | Linked category — Joomla has one category per article, the first one picked counts — see Category mapping | Linked category/categories; without a mapping, the post is published without a category — see Tags and categories |
| Regions | Not used | Optional as an extra category or tag, configurable per connection — see Tags and categories |
| Photo — description field | Alt text of the article image | Title, description, and alt text in the media library — see Media: photo |
| Photographer/copyright text | Burned into the photo itself, if filled in | Burned into the photo itself, if filled in — see Media: photo |
| Author/source credit | Author override via a source author/user alias — see Joomla | Linked WordPress user via user mapping — see User mapping |
| Audio | Not used on this connection — only via the separate FTP Audio connection | Automatically placed at the bottom of the post text as a playable audio player, regardless of settings — see Media: audio |
| Video | Not used on this connection — standalone video files only go out via the separate FTP Video connection | Same here — standalone video files also only go out via FTP Video, not via the WordPress connection itself |
| YouTube video | Own embed position setting, see Routing: Joomla | Own embed position setting, see Routing: WordPress |
This table only covers which field ends up where. Under what conditions a post actually publishes to Joomla or WordPress (and your other channels) at all is described in Publishing to your channels.