Has anyone done this..

Joomla and WordPress are two different systems.

I know that.

There are many people who use wordpress with lots of other different systems.
rapidweaver/joomla, etc.

Can you give us an example of a site integrating WordPress with Joomla?

There are many. Go to do a google search for open word press, there are several plug ins that allow it to work, the only thing is you wouldn’t be able to tell.

For instance my site is wordpress – but it looks just like rapid weaver..

Do you have a preference of wordpress vs. rapidweaver

I’ve yet to see one and searching for “open wordpress” gives me no results about plugins enabling WordPress and Joomla to work together.

I’ve been developing for WordPress for years now and will “be able to tell.”

Just provide us with a link to a single site.

I’m also not sure how something could look like RapidWeaver. RapidWeaver has several different styles and templates. If you want something to look like something you’ve seen somewhere else, then all you need to do is use CSS.

https://www.joomlify.com/

I don’t feel like joomla is really a good choice for the normal, personal user.

Let me ask you a question though – if a person is using rapid weaver for his main site, what would be the reason to use wordpress for the blogging side? Does rapid weaver not do a good job of blogging?

Rapid Weaver does a fine job at blogging, it is not quite as advance as wordpress, but it is completely different, rapid weaver is based on flat php/html/css files, while wordpress uses a database to store all the information.

If you’re looking for something like joomlify, why are you not using their system instead?

I don’t see any reason to use RapidWeaver for a main site and WordPress just for the blogging part. Actually, I see no reason to use anything other than WordPress. Maybe Expression Engine.

Have you used rapidweaver before? You can change so many things, very easily, then you can with wordpress. I have yet found a nice to way to recreate my main site using wordpress – including all of the pages that include photos, videos, etc.

Do you know of a good way to do so?

Learn CSS.

Joomla and WordPress get along fine thank you. Both have strong points so saying “use one or the other” is not ones best option.

For “site design” and flexibility Joomla is leaps and bounds ahead of WordPress. At the sametime what Joomla blogware exists is no comparison to WordPress.

The simplest thing to do is use a Joomla Wrapper for the WordPress install. Works just peachy.

The only area of concern of course are “logins” as if a user logs into Joomla they are not logged into WordPress and visa versa.

I am considering building a bridge between the two.

At the moment, Mojoblog (joomlify) is the best option for Joomla + WP. Many people like it. The hard part comes for those of us who want to offer multi-user blogging (a blog for every registered user). Mojoblog doesn’t feature this. Something that ties Joomla logins into a WPMU setup and allows a component to feed blog entries back into Joomla would be a sweet solution for many. But no one’s done it yet. My hacking skills aren’t quite up to that level. ??

Can you give us an example of a site integrating WordPress with Joomla?

My site is using the MojoBlog component for Joomla. https://www.jessekanclerz.com

For “site design” and flexibility Joomla is leaps and bounds ahead of WordPress. At the sametime what Joomla blogware exists is no comparison to WordPress.

You’re joking, right? I hate Joomla because you can’t create a tableless design, especially if you use modules. Or if it can be done, it ain’t easy. So that statement is disingenuous from a design standpoint. Anything that relies on tables for its layout or design cannot possibly be flexible.