Joomla vs WordPress comparison

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24. 11. 2009 at 12:09 am

Marcia Cole says:

I don’t think you have seen all the new developments for WordPress and what is going on in the States. It just won CMS of the year here. As for extensions, pages, there is now WordPress Pods and Woothemes, which provide the ability to alter pages, mix and match themes and all in all give you the same thing as Joomla, with an easier user experience. Add the built-in SEO eco-system, there is no wonder that big media companies are turning to WordPress for a one-stop shop. WordPress is moving at a rapid rate and if Joomla does not address these two major factors–the ease of use for rapid update and SEO, it will be left behind.

24. 11. 2009 at 1:45 pm

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24. 11. 2009 at 10:50 pm

Heather Buckley says:

Thanks Marcia,

I agree that WordPress is great for business website integration. I am aware of their recent award (although Drupal and Joomla were not eligible for the overall award since they had won it previous years) and WordPress was an extremely worthy winner. We, in fact, use wordpress within our site, and it is unparalleled in the market for user experience and simplicity.

I have looked into Pods and the ability to use pods to customise databases is really exciting – another post for another day! Not for the faint hearted though, pods are definitely for those with developer experience or lots of time and patience.

As for Woothemes, they are certainly worth a look. Woothemes are like WordPress templates or themes, the beauty of them is that they have been tried and tested, there are plenty to choose from and are a really inexpensive way of getting a well designed off the shelf site that you can customise.

Heather

25. 11. 2009 at 12:50 pm

rawraj says:

WordPress won the award because it is a “public vote” award.
And we all know that not only people who have installed wordpress have voted for it but also everyone on the wordpress site too voted for it.
The main reason being as soon as any wordpress logs into their admin the news feeds ask them to vote for wordpress and they do.
Joomla and drupal dont have such “advertisements” by default in the front page of their backend.
So I would not even consider the award as any kind of benchmark

25. 11. 2009 at 5:14 pm

James Best says:

Thanks Marcia,

I wasn’t aware of the progress of WordPress, though when it came time to choose a CMS, Joomla offered a better presentation. From an art directors perspective Joomla may become the adobe indesign of the web community in few years. WordPress will always have its appeal to bloggers but it will be sometime before its leveled with Joomla.

J Best

26. 11. 2009 at 5:30 pm

Anthony says:

From a development perspective I think Joomla was built for backend peeps, WordPress for front end. I touch upon Joomla vs WordPress also, which you might find interesting.

30. 11. 2009 at 8:41 pm

Flv Player says:

Joomla is a wonderful CMS which is getting famous by every passing day. Building a website through Joomla involves less time. Within the shortest span of time, we can build a wonderful website with excellent content management system.

11. 12. 2009 at 12:13 pm

Robert ballantyne says:

When WordPress (WP) added all the pages and daughter pages you could want, and then no longer required the blog to be the front page, it suddenly became the all the web site that most people need. Also adding, changing, and deleting material is something that anybody can learn to do without the help of a webmaster.

Technically WP is a CMS site, but most people who use WP don’t care about that fact and really don’t need to know more than how to add new stuff and to backup. And WP has frequent upgrades — and now that is easy to do from the user interface. With all of the themes that are available, most people can be satisfied installing WP (which is free) and finding a free or inexpensive theme to have a full website.

The big advantage is this is the easy website for everybody. The price is right, and most people can learn to manage the whole thing themselves.

Google loves WP, so just by using it, and either blogging or updating regularly, plus having a few inbound links, the site will rate well.

Both WP and Joomla! have a huge community of support.

Joomla!, on the other hand really requires someone to learn the program. It is complex, and I find lots of people using it who don’t really understand the philosophy. I’ve seen enough Joomla! sites where the navigation is so inadequate that it is almost impossible to find the content even when I know it is there somewhere. Often the easiest way to find it is to search using Google.

If you have someone who truly knows how to manage a Joomla! site (not just what are the controls in the back end), and can set up logical navigation, the site can allow a huge number of people who don’t have Administrator status to prepare and upload content from the ‘front end.’ This can be wonderful, as long as that content does not become lost.

While Joomla! has a ‘blog’ format, it is not really a blog. Not at all! If you want to use Joomla! and you want a blog, I’d suggest that you have both, and keep them separate. And for the blog, use WordPress.

31. 12. 2009 at 10:25 pm

Brad Schweitzer says:

Like many have already said, Both are great! I had 20+ joomla sites and 2 wordpress sites less than a year ago. Today I have 30 wordpress sites and 1 joomla site. I think every day of migrating the final site, but it is rather large and I just don’t want to tackle that.

Upgrades with Joomla take some steps — especially when you consider the plugin updates.

The simplicity and easy updates brought me over to wordpress. And the power and functionality is growing at an amazing rate.

6. 1. 2010 at 12:41 am

Website Repair Guy says:

I just started using Joomla and am having trouble finding good template galleries. Any suggestions?

22. 3. 2010 at 4:18 pm

Heather Buckley says:

A good gallery component for Joomla is Zoom Media Gallery you can see the examples on that page

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