VB Blogging system

[pokerie]

Hi there,
Were looking to offer our users the chance to create have their own blog with their VB login. We're currently using VB 3.5.4 and our forum can be seen here: http://www.poker.ie/community/

We'd like all the features of our current forum (card and suit icons, a you tube button) and all other regular VB features.

We'd like a custom blog url, for example, www.poker.ie/blogs/cormie or http://cormie.poker.ie rather than something like: http://www.poker.ie/community/forums...howjournal&j=2

We'd like users to be able to link to other users and or sites, have archive and post history, an about me snippet of text etc with a side menu like there is here: http://99grandtogo.blogspot.com/

This is all I can think of at the moment. There may be a few more bits and bobs we'd like too.

I've had a search on the site and have seen a few different journal mods, which would be the right one for me and which could do what I need, if any?

Also, just using this VB blog as an example: http://www.gamerseuphoria.com/forums...howjournal&j=2 I can not seem to read the user comments on the bloggers entries. How can this be done?

I'd like the blogs to be as customisable as possible by the user themselves too


I'd appreciate any feedback on this.

Kind regards,
Cormac O'Sheehan,
www.poker.ie

EDIT: I just saw something about a wordpress blogging system mod. Our web designer highly recommends wordpress. Is there any update on this?