Comments on: A Worthy CMS Battle: Joomla vs. WordPress

By: Why can't I get a job

Why can't I get a job — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 06:31:12 +0000

I’ve only ever used WordPress to work with my blogs. I’ve tried using Joomla (once), but the instruction manual was too complicated.

By: Noida authority

Noida authority — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 17:53:52 +0000

Great article really loved it. i had used just wordpress and was very feared to use joomla as i font know anything about it but now i will surely use joomla for my new web http://www.noidaxtension.in

By: Karyah (Liberia)

Karyah (Liberia) — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:58:32 +0000

I work for a newspaper whose site was recently hacked. Called to rebuild from scratch, I had the option to choose WP or J!. After two days of research and experimentation I personally concluded the WP was easy but lacks the functionality to handle complex nature of our newspaper site.
Frankly I’m new to both CMS systems but not to web site development in general.

Joomla is extremely flexible and expandable regardless the size of your site.
I’m currently working on my personal site using WordPress while managing the newspaper’s site using Joomla.

By: Joomister

Joomister — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:12:12 +0000

I’ve used both. It amazes me when the WordPress folks come out with comments like WP matches the CMS capabilities of Joomla. Are you kidding me? Sounds like someone started out blogging, learned WP(which is easy, I will give you that), tried Joomla, figured out it’s not as elementary, and now are harping the virtues of WP. Learn Joomla and you will change your mind. I promise you.

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:40:48 +0000

WordPress is now just as much of a CMS as anything Joomla can be. WordPress has tons of plugins, especially for handling those page managements you complained about above. I’d say WordPress hands down, Joomla is too bulky.

By: Kcmartz

Kcmartz — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:12:57 +0000

I don’t know what to pick. I have a small website aimed for hanging out at. It is mostly a forum with some pages. I think WordPress would do the trick…

By: Flv Player

Flv Player — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:00:37 +0000

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.

By: Andrei

Andrei — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 06:18:06 +0000

hmmmm. i would really would like to hear about what things you can do in wordpress that you can’t in Joomla.

I’ve used both in the past and I find that wordpress is good for smaller sites (i’m talking about more of a homepages/small blogs.). However – imho Joomla gives you more granular control over site.

I find Joomla template structure is more convinient – you can put”positions” anywhere in your code and your module will load just there. Very convenient. wordpess doesn’t even have a menu concept. I don’t consider “page loop” a menu. In most cases you have to hardcode your menu for nice appearance anyway. One more thing that blows in wordpress: that you have to split your code into different files like footer.php, sidebar.php, header.php, page.php, single.php, index.php – workable but annoying.

IMHO: go for WordPress if you are new to web development.
go for Joomla if you want more features/better control and if there will be more than 30 pages on the site.

By: DCKAP

DCKAP — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:14:38 +0000

Good and useful information for visitors

By: Bruce

Bruce — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 02:16:16 +0000

what are you after, a blogger or a cms?? Some previous posts don’t seem to understand the difference.

If you are the sole user, basically adding new stuff sequentially (which is the basic blogging pattern) use WordPress, Joomla is an overkill

If you are running a mulit-level authority organizational site (and therefore need to reuse and reorganize quite often, Joomla with its section/category structure is your sensible choice.

Horses for courses.