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Joomla vs WordPress: A Critical Analysis of the CMS War

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A critical analysis of WordPress and Joomla – the two most popular and powerful content management system (CMS) available has revealed some very interesting facts including their strengths and weaknesses. Here we discuss a few of the thoughts concluded during the process of analysis of the CMS war.

One of the most preliminary analyses going by current statistics has revealed that of both the CMS, WordPress is the most popular, while Joomla being a few years younger is slowly catching up. While WordPress has evolved to be the best choice for starting a blog/content-driven site, Joomla may be better for static or corporate sites and things like intranets. Moreover, WordPress is considered to be comparatively more user-friendly for a web newbie.

Templates and Themes

Detailed analysis of both the WordPress and Joomla system has shown that there is no actual difference in difficulty level when it comes to creating custom templates or themes or either CMS. It is also seen that while WordPress themes are generally designed with a definite purpose like content curation/blogging; Joomla templates are designed to be a lot more ingenious.

Coming to the design aspect, Joomla offers a lot of creative freedom while design in WordPress is more minimalistic. So, basically where is no clear winner in this segment as design being subjective – people tend to use template/theme that suits their style and business.

Plugins, Extensions and Customization

Considering the different extension structure for each, you will find Joomla’s structure to be more intuitive than WordPress. However, it again depends on the purpose of the website i.e. while it is seen that most WordPress plugins are developed precisely for blog-type websites; Joomla extensions have a much wider variety.  So, here also we stay short of a clear winner since it is mostly seen that people choose the CMS which develops the perfect extension to reinforce the core functionality of your website.

Search Engine Optimization

Comparing WordPress and Joomla on the basis of SEO competence gives us a clear winner – WordPress, which is found to be considerably better for SEO than Joomla. While a detailed analysis has shown that the real power of SEO in WordPress comes from the comprehensive array of plugins made available to make your life simpler. But, Joomla cannot be discarded just on the basis of its poor SEO performance.

Support and Community

Coming to Support and community, Joomla is found here to take a lead against WordPress when it comes to community building initiative. It is found to be really working hard to nurture its community, by creating a fairly attractive and intuitive website; moreover, it also has a phenomenal support forum.

And the Winner is……

This part is definitely the most awaited, cherished, and also the most controversial for many choose to differ in favor of their own sides. It is true that both the CMS have their own share of advantages and limitations, which make it all the more difficult to make a conclusive decision for a comprehensive winner.

In fact, it has been time and again reiterated by most users when designing a website that WordPress and Joomla are both excellent for certain purposes – a client decision to develop website in WordPress or Joomla is based extensively after considering the different aspects and co-relate the purpose of the website.

Just as going by the thumb rule, if you are developing an out and out content-based site (blog, news website, etc.) then it is wise to choose WordPress, which is unarguably the best platform for easy publishing and distribution of content. But if you are considering building any other (complex sites), choose Joomla; although Joomla is less intuitive than WordPress; however, it is the ‘complexity’ of Joomla that allows it to be a much more versatile system.

Hope this article has succeeded in its endeavor to offer a clear insight into the competences, benefits and drawbacks of each CMS that will help you take a truly informed decision on choosing the best CMS for your website – WordPress or Joomla!

Jackson is a Digital Marketing Manager at VITEB assisting Joomla Designers India for developing and maintaining innovative websites. His zeal to share his knowledge makes him research on various topics relevant to his field. He writes about his research on various guest blogging platforms. You can read more of his write-ups on some of the most popular guest blogs.


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