Joomla or Wordpress, Which is Better? 20 items Compared
Every day more people find out how to easily manage their websites using Content Management Systems. Two well known CMS’s are Joomla and Wordpress. Today, let’s compare them side by side and see who is truly “the best”
Comparing Joomla and Wordpress
- End user experience – Tie
- Ease of upgrades – Wordpress
- Editing content by end users – Wordpress
- Design flexibility – Tie
- Pull in content from other sites – Joomla
- Version control, roll back – Wordpress
- Backend navigation – Wordpress
- Ease of installation – Joomla
- Size of community – Wordpress
- Popularity – Wordpress
- Active development – Wordpress
- Schedule content to appear – Joomla
- Rotating content – Joomla
- Menus – Joomla
- Modules, Plugins, Extensions, Components – Joomla
- Multiple Authors – Wordpress
- Search functions – Wordpress
- Administration – Wordpress
- Scalability – Draw
- SEO – Wordpress
- Just Added! Community Energy – Wordpress
- Just Added! Security – Joomla
- Just Added! Themes – Wordpress
- Just Added! Documentation – Wordpress
Winner aka For The Win (FTW)
- Wordpress – 16
- Joomla – 9
From the Chat and Video
Giannii-8385 : To make either better you should insert Disqus. What about Tumblr?
ustreamer-60485 : leolaporte uses stickam. http://www.stickam.com/leolaporte
ohdoctah-264 : WP is the Google of Blogs so I can get extra traffic.
ohdoctah-264 : people search word press for random things and I can also get nice mobile plug ins with WP
ustreamer-96511 : moving my Wordpress site to Joomla but it is easier to update, modify and expand
ustreamer-96511 : yes Wordpress is easier to administer I have to agree
Adria: Wordpress is a very approachable Content Managment System
Nbaisley: “Wordpress is like the girl next door”
ohdoctah-7277 : i need the community lol i think thats the only reason im on joomla
ohdoctah-7277 : tumblr is coming.. its something to get into they are modeled after WP
Common functionality requests
Stop trying to do everything inside Joomla and Wordpress. There are many ways to embed scripts and sites that already do these things very well right into your Joomla or Wordpress install.
- quiz or survey
- calendars
- forms
The Numbers
Although this is in no way scientific, condting a search for these 3 Content Managment Systems reveals the overwhemling popularlity of Wordpress:
Google Results 1 – 10 of about 285,000,000 for wordpress
Google Results 1 – 10 of about 117,000,000 for joomla
Google Results 1 – 10 of about 30,800,000 for drupal
What I like about Wordpress vs Joomla
I think that the underlying message of the developers of Wordpress, including Matt Mullenweg and Alex King, is that Wordpress is for everyone. Everyone is welome. There are many passionate people out there working with Wordpress and they continue the tradition of storytelling so it’s making Wordpress a viral phenomenon.
Resources
Book – Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
Joomla Developer’s Toolbox
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/01/05/joomla-developers-toolbox/
WordPress Developer’s Toolbox
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/09/15/wordpress-developers-toolbox/
Brian Gardner’s Revolution / Studiopress makes use of Wordpress MU http://test.studiopress.com/
Joomla Extensions http://extensions.joomla.org/
Wordpress Plugins http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/
Official Wordpress Showcase http://wordpress.org/showcase/
Official Joomla Showcase http://forum.joomla.org/viewforum.php?f=514
Unofficial Joomla Showcase http://www.bestofjoomla.com/component/option,com_bestofsites/Itemid,78/
Unoffical Wordpress Showcase http://welovewp.com/
My $10 question on Mahalo Answers for help with my video streaming/editing workflow
http://www.mahalo.com/answers/technology-and-internet/what-is-the-best-way-to-stream-live-and-record-the-video-for-later-editing-ustreamtv-justintv
How I came up with the list
I took the following viewpoints into consideration; things important to me as a consultant to setup and maintain websites, things that are important to my clients who are business owners and don’t have a lot of time and things important to the internet community as a whole who are adopting new technologies.
Monday Contest Prize, Question and Winner
Prize: 1 hour of website development
Question: What does the config.php file in Joomla or Wordpress contain?
Winner: nbaisley
Every day more people find out how to easily manage their websites using Content Management Systems. Two well known CMS's are Joomla and Wordpress. Today, let's compare them side by side and see who is truly "the best"



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