Joomla!

Overview
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Joomla
Score 7.4 out of 10
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Joomla! is a free and open source content management system used to publish web content. Included features are page caching, RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news flashes, blogs, polls, a search function, and support for language internationalization.N/A
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Joomla!
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
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I don't believe Joomla compares to any other programs I have used. There are similar products, but none that are quite as easy.
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At the starting of my career, I got Joomla! to work on, SO I learned about Joomla!. Initially, it was tough to learn component development but after [learning] something, I like to do it.
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All the reviews I read are lazy. They all say the same old, WP is easy, Joomla! harder but good and Drupal security. But that's so old, as they were measuring a decade ago. Joomla! has moved ahead. Its got over 70 languages and has been multi-language from the start. [It] was …
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We have used other online website builders as well as CMS systems. In my humble opinion, joomla! is much more versatile and there are so much better extensions available for Jooma! than any of the others.
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Simpler and easy to visually understand elements and tools. We don't need to do any fancy coding or use too many plugins. çompared with WordPress and Webflow, we believe Joomla! has a more accurate and easy interface that allows the user to finish tasks in less time than the …
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We tested other platforms like WordPress, Magento and some local CMS. 
But Joomla offered us better resources for generating content.
Joomla is a CMS suitable for many types of projects, especially if you have several people editing content at the same time. 
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As a user, it is more than OK for those standard daily operations like publishing and editing or comment management. As a developer, I have a very different perspective. Joomla! is not my favorite platform. Only ready-to-use tools like Wix can be less friendly than having to …
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Joomla is more of a developer's CMS. It is much more customizable than WordPress.
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There are many themes and other design assets for Joomla! we can use from paid and free libraries throughout the internet. WordPress on the other hand is also very good and useful, comparatively Joomla! offered more features and at a better price.
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I like Joomla! a lot more than WordPress, as I find this constrictive in the way that they have made it a one size fits all CMS. I also find that their vulnerabilities are far bigger than Joomla's.
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Part of Joomla core, which is what comes with Joomla when you install it, is it's Access Control Lists. It allows you to not only control which users can access what, but allows you to create custom groups and have unique access per group. WordPress can't do that without a …
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WordPress is designed in a way to make it fairly fool-proof for the admin, but in this approach, it handcuffs the user from having control or making it easy to do, in many cases, what are basic things (changing the title, URL segment, etc...). With the exception of the …
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WordPress is probably the most popular CMS, followed by Joomla! For me, I find Joomla! much more intuitive. Both use themes and can provide excellent results, however I prefer Joomla!
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We chose Joomla! over Drupal or WordPress because it's in the middle ground between those two systems. We needed something that can be extended down the road if we need it, but at the same time, it can't be too complex. We felt Drupal is too complex and WordPress seems to be …
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We selected Joomla because of the available extensions met are needs at the time.
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Joomla! is the #2 Open Source CMS behind WordPress, which we also use, and ahead of Drupal, which we have evaluated but decided not to pursue. Joomla! generally performs better than WP for clients that need more complexity to their websites, including flexibility in templating, …
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I think Joomla is on-par with Drupal and Umbraco and similar platforms, but WordPress does seem to be above it. WordPress has become so common that there are more and more features becoming available to it that exceed the Joomla platform and make it hard to compete with. WordPre…
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I have selected Joomla when I needed an easy content management platform for a team of beginners. It's not as easy to customize or optimize like WordPress or Wix sites, but it's a great introduction until you are ready for the more advanced features offered by these alternative …
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Joomla has a more general and wide use, more documentation, forums and community that develops many templates and extensions for almost all purposes. It has a great web-based administration environment and, with the correct permissions setting, it can be prepared for a regular …
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Joomla is one of the least intuitive options and has had some issues with updates in the past, as compared to WordPress. Magento has similar issues, but Joomla doesn't have as much flexibility as Magento (and of course, Joomla does not have e-commerce features built-in). …
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I have used Wordpress before and while WordPress does have some pros over Joomla, overall, I like Joomla because it is more robust. I found I had to install a lot of plugins in Wordpress to get the same basic set-up that came out-of-the-box for Joomla. I also found that some of …
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I have not evaluated any others. I researched Joomla! prior to implementing it. This was the most cost-effective and robust open source software that I found.
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For complex websites, with unique customizations, Joomla is my go to. If my clients want a user-friendly administration and plan on making changes to their website content themselves, I choose WordPress. Joomla's templating system is quicker and simpler to create completely …
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Features
Joomla!
Security
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Joomla!
7.0
44 Ratings
14% below category average
Role-based user permissions7.044 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
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Joomla!
6.5
41 Ratings
17% below category average
API7.039 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language6.140 Ratings
Web Content Creation
Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
Joomla!
7.2
47 Ratings
5% below category average
WYSIWYG editor6.046 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness8.044 Ratings
Admin section8.443 Ratings
Page templates7.045 Ratings
Library of website themes9.043 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design7.043 Ratings
Publishing workflow6.143 Ratings
Form generator6.039 Ratings
Web Content Management
Comparison of Web Content Management features of Product A and Product B
Joomla!
6.6
45 Ratings
11% below category average
Content taxonomy8.044 Ratings
SEO support7.044 Ratings
Bulk management4.142 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions8.045 Ratings
Community / comment management6.143 Ratings
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User Ratings
Joomla!
Likelihood to Recommend
6.1
(68 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(28 ratings)
Usability
9.9
(7 ratings)
Availability
9.9
(2 ratings)
Performance
7.8
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(4 ratings)
Online Training
8.0
(2 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.7
(3 ratings)
Product Scalability
9.9
(3 ratings)
User Testimonials
Joomla!
Likelihood to Recommend
The Joomla Project
It seems with the release of Joomla! 4 that the weak areas have all been covered. Its always been good for the mid-level small to large business, the blogging was WP, and the large-scale enterprise was probably bespoke. But the new interface is so simple it seems pointless using WP when Joomla! is as easy and can then grow as big as you like. The Workflows feature which allows you to set up work pipelines easily is going to be a boom to any larger enterprise sites. Couples with the new API which I got to see at one of their user groups, is amazing. They were creating articles on one site then another site was taking the feed directly for just certain categories. Really blows your mind what you could do with that and the new workflows.
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Pros
The Joomla Project
  • We use Joomla to build our websites and web applications because of its incredible intuitiveness and tools to make everything more manageable.
  • Its working environment is quite comfortable for my development team, and its web design resources significantly speed up our work when carrying out web development projects.
  • It allows you to use blocks to create and visually manage websites and divide them into different categories without programming knowledge.
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Cons
The Joomla Project
  • Because Joomla's user community is smaller than WP, it lacks as many choices from 3rd party developers, meaning it can be a little more difficult to find the right extension for what you need to accomplish
  • Along the same vein, most of the best 3rd-party software for Joomla! is paid
  • Simple features such as Add to Menu and Cache cleaners should be adopted as part of the Joomla! core, though they are available as extensions
  • Joomla! could use a simpler and easier URL rewriting process
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Likelihood to Renew
The Joomla Project
I gave it a rating of 10 because I just love how Joomla! works, how it is set up and how it handles many users. Also it is very fast, and there is no overload on the MySQL database or servers ever.
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Usability
The Joomla Project
Joomla! 3.x is easily installed either manually or via a script provided by your host. It contains most of the tools needed to begin creating websites right from the start. Those features that it doesn't have are easily installed via links and buttons from the thousands of extensions available in the community
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Performance
The Joomla Project
Today's Modern Joomla performs very well and is robust and durable. The pages load faster than they ever did in the past and Modern Joomla's integration into other software or systems has become seamless. Modern Joomla sites will last long and will stay running forever.
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Support Rating
The Joomla Project
Between the core Joomla developers who are excellent at answering questions and providing support, you have a whole community of developers who work with Joomla and are happy to help fellow developers out answering questions and supporting the Joomla project. Out of the many communities I am involved in for open-source software, Joomla's community is by far the best.
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Online Training
The Joomla Project
It is good if you know Joomla! if not it can get a bit confusing
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Implementation Rating
The Joomla Project
Joomla has gone through tremendous growing pains. It is now better than ever. But before, when it was going from 1.5-2.5, the templates and plugins would break over and over again. If you don't understand what Joomla was trying to do back then, you might have a bad attitude toward it. Today, those pains are over and things don't break like they used to during that time period.
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Alternatives Considered
The Joomla Project
We tested other platforms like WordPress, Magento and some local CMS. 
But Joomla offered us better resources for generating content.
Joomla is a CMS suitable for many types of projects, especially if you have several people editing content at the same time.
It allows you to maintain visual standardization and offers many options for working with images.
With its ability to control access to different articles, categories or even different components, it is a great tool, even if they are managed by different people.
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Return on Investment
The Joomla Project
  • Joomla has reduced our costs of rolling out a new website because it uses less developer time and can be rolled out by individual users as needed.
  • Joomla has a lot of extensions and add-ons that make it easy to create and implement advanced solutions quickly.
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