Comments on: Joomla or Wordpress, Which is Better? 20 items Compared

By: adriarichards

adriarichards — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 01:29:23 +0000

Thank you for your feedback there. You sound sort of upset. Will you be
attending The CMSExpo in Chicago for 2010 or would your head just explode?

*smile*

There are over 160 recognized dog breeds in the AKC registry. These dogs
have been bred for specific purposes or in some cases, no purpose other than
to be a great lapdog (See http://bit.ly/blueythedog)

Same goes for CMS solutions like Joomla, Wordpress and Drupal.

Everyone has to start somewhere learning about their next dog and this show
gives folks a starting point for content management systems.

Hope you feel a little less feisty now!

By: thelawprofessor

thelawprofessor — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 01:21:31 +0000

Drupal should not even be mentioned in the same breath as Wordpress and Joomla and credibility is gone once you say it is an easier install than both. Drupal is a development framework that is only useful if you have real money to invest in PHP developers. Without them, everything looks like it's in Drupal and that is not a compliment.

Joomla is nice looking and has a great deal of flexibility. But it also has a ton of mediocre modules and a very poor method of SEO. It finally is improved but it still spits out some very ugly looking URLs. It is much more difficult to manage content and has a higher learning curve but is also far more powerful when it comes to control over how to place and use content. Some things are lame brained (like requiring a bot to be written to enable authors to have links to their profile/articles.) Wordpress seems to be, by far, the most search engine optimized, much easier to use although it does lack in ease of extensibility in several ways. The inability to remove the "category" slug for 2 level categories is absurd (and don't point me to any articles how to do it because NONE of them work.)

I look at them as follows. For industrial sites with money that require a lot of custom work, I might consider Drupal. Joomla is good for quick and dirty sites for businesses that don't require SEO but need content flexibility and layout. Wordpresss is for the rest and easiest to get started too.

By: reikoarashi

reikoarashi — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 07:59:56 +0000

I agree with everyone saying they're different but my issue is that i'm a former wordpress user dealing with the fact my wordpress install had gotten hacked into – eaten to bits and securley malware infected… Why? Probably cause i was target to being on a godaddy host? 8D. I may try this “DISQUS” thing on my new joomla install but joomla can get rendered useless if all you have is no cash and all freebie plugins.. what happened to OPEN SOURCE?

By: reikoarashi

reikoarashi — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 01:59:56 +0000

By: itjobs1

itjobs1 — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:32:26 +0000

Hello,
Very Interesting post! Thank you for such interesting resource!
www.Staffingpower.com

By: adriarichards

adriarichards — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:57:44 +0000

Stephen,

Thank you for your comment. I've been using Joomla since 2005 and used
Mambo before that (foundation CMS of Joomla) so that means I've been using,
installing, configuring and supporting Joomla for 5 years.

It's complex and bulky compared to Wordpress. It's less secure as well.
Millions more people are loving the easy and beauty of Wordpress.

Wordpress is a better website platform.

Maybe I'll do another review on the two in January.

Thanks for your warning on being "more objective", lol. I define the
requirements of a project based on the needs of my clients vs what I am
comfortable with.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:51:45 +0000

I developed a very extensive site in iWeb but have outgrown that platform, although it is an amazing tool for beginners. Now looking for the right CMS for me. In my investigations, I ran into your site and listened to the whole video carefully. I do appreciate the information, but in my opinion you are bias toward WP as can be seen by your facial expressions and tone of voice. My investigations lead me to see WP as a younger, still immature sibling of Joomla. Google likes it because it is simplistic, and that makes it easier and faster to evaluate. At this point, I am moving toward integrating both, i.e. Joomla for website and WP for its blog. I would just caution you to be more objective and more aware of your bias. Thanks.

By: 5starshop

5starshop — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:45:00 +0000

wow what a great discussion here. I was thinking of using wordpress now I am having a second thought. Thanks.

By: Demaster

Demaster — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:39:52 +0000

First of all…I wish to thank Adria for taking the time to put this subject out because I think it is very important. I’m pretty new to web development, but I have a programmer history and work as a network engineer. That makes me a pretty techie oriented guy. I have to agree with Adria…because I’m techie oriented…I think I prefer to use Joomla. I’ve been using Wordpress for a while now too, and I must say that the backend that you use has to be based on the client and the job outcome. The two don’t truly compare. They each have attributes that are amazing, and I’ll use either one depending on the client and the site that I’m building. I’ve tried to use Drupal many times, and there is one site that I must use Drupal for on a regular basis. Drupal just doesn’t work for me and my style at all. Once again…thanks Adria

Demaster

By: hanum

hanum — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 06:20:54 +0000

each of that CMS has benefit and weakness. But I prefer joomla to build web to wordpress. Good comparison review. Nice posting. Thank’s