Joomla vs. WordPress

Greetings!

I am new to the forum and have long been developing sites in WordPress. I am considering creating my next site in Joomla as I am told by various sources that Joomla provides a more robust platform for development.

In truth, on the surface they seem similar. Can someone share the key differentiators to me? Starting work in Joomla will require ramp up time for my team and I need to justify the investment of what would otherwise be productive WordPress development time.

Thanks in advance for sharing your insights.

Hi Dlynn,

Good Day..

It all depends on your needs. They're both good choices. Wordpress is more of a blogging platform, while Joomla is a full fledged CMS. They can both be customized and be SEO friendly.

If you require CMS features, I'd go with Joomla. It has a longer learning curve than Wordpress, but once you figure it out you can do anything with it...

You can do a lot more with Joomla than wordpress, even though you may not need to now, my advice is future proof yourself - you may need to do more later....

Regards,
Web Design

I use both Joomla and Wordpress for different purposes.

Wordpress for blogs and Joomla for content, shopping and what else you are building websites for.

There are more you can do with Joomla, but it takes more time to get up and running, but when done you have a website for life, so to speak.

Another important aspect is that I find the SEO part in Joomla a little bit more komplex than in Wordpress.

But there are some very cool joomla templates out there.

They're equal, the plugins and how you set up it matters.

The Joomla has built in Membership function, and Wordpress dont. But you can install plugin to make a wordpress site a Membership site. Same in Wordpress that is designed for blogging, but you can also make a Joomla site a blogging site via plugin.

Joomla is more robust CMS, seems harder to learn, though.

I noted a comment above where someone said they use WP for blogs, but Joomla for content. This distinction has fascinated me and I wonder if it is something to do with the architecture of WP, which seems rigid and doesn't facilitate a more intuitive use of internal linking between relevant content.

WP along with most blog structures seem to work on a chronology basis, that is, posts are related in their date order, and not with reference to pages higher up in the site "hierarchy", that is homepage, then second tier, and so on.

It would be great to hear from a techie (which I am not)about how to overcome this problem.

anglesey

I also use Joomla and Wordpress, but I think it is unfair to compare both of them 1:1.
While I use Wordpress primarily to update my Blog with new (but similar) content and pictures,
I take advantage of Joomlas extensive modular design and add new core features to the website.

Wordpress is a specialist in terms of Blogging, Joomla a specialist in terms of (modular) CMS,
even though I think Drupal even exceeds Joomla in terms of modular based design.

I like the fact the Joomla has more advanced features and modules than WordPress. But, the learning curve is a lot steeper for Joomla (at least for me). I still struggle with it. Which is why most of the time I use WordPress. It's faster and I'm an impatient person 🙂 I can usually make WordPress do what I want before I'm able to figure out the same thing in Joomla.

I agree with many of the other posters. Joomla takes a while to figure out, but has many advantageous features. Wordpress is pretty easy to get around in right out of the box. With Joomla, you'll find yourself looking up "how do I....in Joomla" a lot! But once you get it figured out, it's a great CMS. Good Luck!

QUOTES -

"I like the fact the Joomla has more advanced features and modules than WordPress."
"If you require CMS features, I'd go with Joomla. It has a longer learning curve than Wordpress, but once you figure it out you can do anything with it..."

Just wondering what specifically Joomla can add to Wordpress?

Is it changing the layout?
Making pages look different?

There is a way to add html pages into wordpress using the template function.

Anyone having experience using SEO with Joomla? Which one more SEO friendly? Joomla or Wordpress?

I started with Drupal. Joomla & Wordpress would both be much easier to learn on. I use Wordpress now because it's quicker to set up & I can anything I need with it. SEO differences...the plugins can slow things down in both J & W. There are different plugins to choose from and some may be better than others. It's not about the core Joomla & Wordpress systems.

I've heard there are just as many plugins for joomla as there are for wordpress, but you just need to know where to look (they aren't as obvious). Would you agree? Are there some recommended plugin sites for Joomla, and are there any that are somewhat compatable in each platform? i.e. if you learn an ecommerce or newsletter plugin for wordpress, you could use the same thing in joomla?

Here in Marbella, Spain a lot of the top website not blogs are using Wordpress as a CMS and in real estate for example each property is entered as a wordpress post which has great advantages for traffic, so would you say Joomla is easier to use as a cms platform?

Even though Joomla has a membership based plugin you can also easily get third party membership plugins for wordpress.

Can you give me your thoughts in which order you would rank wordpress, joomla, drupal and ning?

Samie

I use Joomla and have not played with Wordpress much but am curious about it. I find Joomla to be extremely SEO friendly. Does the SEO plugin for Wordpress give it the same functionality as Joomla... creating SEF URLs for example? Or is that done manually in Wordpress?

If Wp allows you to do anything, why would I want to use a more complicated software? Why do some of you sy Joomla creates a site for life? Sorry, I still don't see the difference...

I have familiar with wordpress but now a day i was learn about joomla also, I think joomla also good as SEO point of view

Hi there,
I have tried both wordpress 3.0 and joomla for different website but because of the nature of its contents on the both website it does make it hard to tell which platform works the best but one thing for sure i find wordpress more user friendly and easier to adapt to.😀

Hi,

I have created my website with Rapidweaver, which is very easy to use. Now I need to make my site bilingual, which is not possible with Rapidweaver. Would Wordpress or Joomla be better for creating a simple structured, bilingual site?

WordPress seems to be the most popular platform. I find it quite easy to learn, and there are tons of plugins for it. No complaints.

This will be my first time to use Joomla -- I am looking forward to it.
Also, thanks for all the helpful information here.

I noted a comment above where someone said they use WP for blogs, but Joomla for content. This distinction has fascinated me and I wonder if it is something to do with the architecture of WP, which seems rigid and doesn't facilitate a more intuitive use of internal linking between relevant content.

WP along with most blog structures seem to work on a chronology basis, that is, posts are related in their date order, and not with reference to pages higher up in the site "hierarchy", that is homepage, then second tier, and so on.

It would be great to hear from a techie (which I am not)about how to overcome this problem.

anglesey

This is the reason why i'm trying to learn Joomla at the moment. Whenever I update a post in WP, it stays way down in the homepage. The only way it can appear as the 1st post is to delete the post and post another updated updated version of it. But I lose the original permalink in the process and all the SEO work i've done on it.

This is the reason why i'm trying to learn Joomla at the moment. Whenever I update a post in WP, it stays way down in the homepage. The only way it can appear as the 1st post is to delete the post and post another updated updated version of it. But I lose the original permalink in the process and all the SEO work i've done on it.

That should be easy enough. You could updated the date of your post from your WP Admin panel to just be latest date. Many themes have a feature where a "featured" post gets top billing, in the sidebar, in slidebar at top, or elsewhere. Lastly, you could your wp admin panel could allow you to make a post "sticky", so it's always on top. That should also help out with the SEO of your home page.

Having said that, I'm also on this thread to find out about "content" vs blogging. So, I get it that Joomla is better for content, but what exactly does that mean? Is that like wordpress pages but more powerful? Also I think somebody said it's more friendly for setting up commerce web sites?

I use both. I haven't tried Druple yet but i heard that is good too but more complicated. Wordpress is great for a blog site and has heaps of widgets and plugins and is SEO friendly. Joomla is probably less SEO friendly although you can get plugins such as sh404sef to fix most of it. What makes joomla great is the modules and the number of positioning options most templates come with. It means a custom design and layout is more achievable especially for complicated sites. For a blog tho, wordpress is great and beats the options out there in the joomla blog space.

I myself am using wordpress, and can tell, that the easiness is quite attractive. Joomla takes much more time to learn and use. The only bad thing is that wp is designed more for blogs. Here Joomla wins.

I am starting to set up a website and I am informed that Wordpress in more user friendly that Joomla. Is this true?

both are powerful stuff in terms of online application the only diff is joomla is for webcontent while wordpress is for blog publishing.

I have done four websites in WP, conforming my content's organization to the "blog" format.
In Joomia, how could I have done it differently?

They can both be SEO friendly. Difference is mostly in what do you need site for. Most of my friends use Joomla for content and shoppning websites. Wordpress mostly for blogs.

Is Joomla Ok for the mobile users?

There are some mobile templates out there for Joomla! 1.5., but I do not know if they're OK

For me WordPress is much easier to use though I am encountering problems with the application sometimes. There are instances where after posting comment I am lead to a blank page.

I've been using Joomla for a long time now. I like its features, designs and a user-friendly. Though I haven't tried Wordpress, I am contented with what I am using.

I personally suggest Joomla, but wordpress also very nice. Its depends.