WordPress vs Joomla
Well, I once again clean up my hosting space and switch back to WordPress after I have Joomla 1.5Beta2 installed for a month. As being a long time Joomla fan, I made my decision based on purely the purpose of this site, a search engine friendly blog about things I do. Like programming, building websites and stuff.
Back to the topic, there are many good articles about this topics, and here’s my 2 cents:
Joomla is good for full featured websites like corporate sites, product sites and etc. It’s extensive and complicated and yet powerful enough to handle all features a CMS system needs.
pros:
- Powerful, extensive
- Nice looking free template comes with it
- Best php web framwork I’ve worked on
cons:
- Not easy to crack it
- Lack of SEO from the core, SEFU (however you do have some choices over either free or commercial SEO components to use)
- Most recently, the GPL news, yes, it suppose to make things better, OSM, Yeah!, however it may cause negative effects.
I am not sure if the last one should be listed as one of the cons. Well, at least for now, some extension developers have stopped working on those wonderful components because of this. Actual users may only benefit from this after a while when many good GPL compatible extensions come and replace those are not.
WordPress, current stable version is 2.21
Pros:
- Smaller file size
- Easier to setup
- SEO SEFU is built into the core
cons:
Conclusion:
bhupen said,
August 4, 2007 at 6:39 pm
having worked with mambo then to joomla, now going for wordpress since a lot of the extensions do not work in the previons cms. If you have small or big site, you are wasting time with other cms. Stick 2 wordpress!
Nelson said,
August 15, 2007 at 12:57 pm
Thanks for the comment. I won’t give up on Joomla completely yet. I certainly hope Joomla 1.5 and by giving some time, it will be different.
Dustin said,
August 21, 2007 at 12:38 am
I am thinking about making the jump from Joomla! to WordPress to build a blogging site.
After building about a dozen sites with Mambo/Joomla!, I am, of course, hesitant.
I have not had a good look at the WP core code yet, but I have read plenty that it is not all that great. Any truth to that?
On the other hand, the development of Joomla!, without such built-in features as many-to-many categorization and horrible SEF URLs (major disappointment with 1.5 RC1) , has led me to consider greener pastures.
It seems like their focus was mostly on internationalization, which is completely useless for almost everyone.
A Pro to Joomla! is that he community is a bit more organized. It is easy to surf the extensions and find stuff in the forum (of course that is just an integrated project).
I currently have WordPress installed on the site, but will probably keep my finger near the delete button if I find it slow to manipulate and customize.
Thanks for the post.
Timothy said,
November 6, 2008 at 12:46 am
Actually, quite frankly, the commentary is more interesting messages themselves. (Not to insult the author, of course:))