Joomla! vs. Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
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
Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
Score 8.8 out of 10
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Liferay Digital Experience Platform is an enterprise-grade platform that enables companies to create and connect personalized digital experiences across web, mobile, social, in store and other touchpoints. It provides the technical foundation (deep integration, security and modularity) for a digital business to orchestrate unique customer experiences, as well as business value features to support a deeper understanding of their customers.N/A
Pricing
Joomla!Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
JoomlaLiferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsEmail sales@liferay.com for pricing information.
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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
Joomla

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Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
Chose Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
Great choice for Java based enterprise organizations. Liferay is on the heavier side of CMS systems, and it excels in larger projects but is a waste of time for smaller projects.
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
Joomla!Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Joomla!
7.1
44 Ratings
12% below category average
Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
-
Ratings
Role-based user permissions7.144 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
Joomla!
6.6
41 Ratings
15% below category average
Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
-
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API7.039 Ratings00 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language6.140 Ratings00 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
Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
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WYSIWYG editor6.046 Ratings00 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness8.044 Ratings00 Ratings
Admin section8.443 Ratings00 Ratings
Page templates7.045 Ratings00 Ratings
Library of website themes8.943 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design7.043 Ratings00 Ratings
Publishing workflow6.143 Ratings00 Ratings
Form generator6.039 Ratings00 Ratings
Web Content Management
Comparison of Web Content Management features of Product A and Product B
Joomla!
6.6
45 Ratings
10% below category average
Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
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Content taxonomy8.044 Ratings00 Ratings
SEO support7.044 Ratings00 Ratings
Bulk management4.142 Ratings00 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions8.045 Ratings00 Ratings
Community / comment management6.143 Ratings00 Ratings
Best Alternatives
Joomla!Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
Small Businesses
Divi
Divi
Score 9.8 out of 10

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Medium-sized Companies
Image Relay
Image Relay
Score 9.5 out of 10
Jahia Digital Experience Platform
Jahia Digital Experience Platform
Score 8.4 out of 10
Enterprises
Tridion
Tridion
Score 9.0 out of 10
Jahia Digital Experience Platform
Jahia Digital Experience Platform
Score 8.4 out of 10
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User Ratings
Joomla!Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
Likelihood to Recommend
6.1
(68 ratings)
7.1
(4 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(28 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
9.9
(7 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Availability
9.9
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
7.8
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
8.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.7
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
9.9
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Joomla!Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
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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Liferay, Inc.
Liferay Portal is a framework which comes with a fine grained security/permission model, (Web) Content Management, Authentication and Authorization, outbox portlets with different features to manage content or users. So if any business application has below questions then I can recommend not to use Liferay as a platform.
  • Application is big but not content or user driven.
  • Application with few static contents.
  • Application with batch transactions(DB) i.e. insert , update db records in batch.
  • Application with ERP capabilities.
  • Application with Big Data support.
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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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Liferay, Inc.
  • Personalization
  • Business to client relationship
  • Customer management is better.
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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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Liferay, Inc.
  • Harder to get started
  • Enterprise level of options can cause confusion
  • Development documentation could be better
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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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Liferay, Inc.
We are currently using Liferay Portal and plan to keep using it.
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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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Liferay, Inc.
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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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Liferay, Inc.
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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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Liferay, Inc.
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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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Liferay, Inc.
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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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Liferay, Inc.
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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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Liferay, Inc.
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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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Liferay, Inc.
  • Create a good environment
  • Resolution is not so much better.
  • Have a long things to do.
  • Content management is better off.
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ScreenShots

Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) Screenshots

Screenshot of Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) forms experience was designed to make generating forms simple and straightforward while offering flexibility and deep integration with back end systems.Screenshot of Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) was designed with usability and beauty in mind.Screenshot of Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) features a unified look and feel that makes site administration a breeze.Screenshot of Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) forms experience was designed to make generating forms simple and straightforward while offering flexibility and deep integration with back end systems.Screenshot of Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) comes with blogs out-of-the-box, designed to give enterprises a slick blogging experience similar to what they're used to with consumer platforms.Screenshot of Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) was designed with usability and beauty in mind.