Joomla! vs. Umbraco CMS

Joomla!

Umbraco CMS

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Joomla	Score 8.3 out of 10	N/A	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
Umbraco CMS	Score 8.1 out of 10	N/A	Umbraco is an open-source .NET Core CMS with over 700,000 active installs worldwide and with more than 200,000 active community members. It was first released on February 16th, 2005, and is still to this day an open-source project backed by a commercial company. To ensure Umbraco is always running the latest technology, the company has aligned with Microsoft's .NET release schedule to always have the Umbraco CMS…	$0

Pricing

Joomla!

Umbraco CMS

Editions & Modules

No answers on this topic

Umbraco Free: $0
Umbraco Starter: $53
per month
Umbraco Standard: $320
per month
Umbraco Professional: $860
per month
Umbraco Cloud Enterprise: Custom Pricing
per month

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Joomla	Umbraco CMS
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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The Umbraco CMS and all of its core features are the same across all plans.

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Community Pulse
	Joomla!	Umbraco CMS
Considered Both Products	Joomla Dustin Day Director of UX development, social media and SEO/SEM Chose Joomla WordPress, Drupal and Concrete CMS Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Joomla Comparing to other Platform handling user management is easy with Joomla. various extensions really helpful for core level applicatiion Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Joomla Joomla! fits me better because it is flexible and simple enough to understand. WordPress is straightforward, but it can't handle bigger websites as efficiently. Drupal is powerful, but it can be more challenging to learn. Joomla! Offers a suitable mix of options that meet my … Incentivized Helpful? AR Abdul Rahuman Cloud engineer Chose Joomla low cost, easily accessible, very economical. Incentivized Helpful? JM Jeff Montgomery CTO Chose Joomla Joomla is a very stable and secure CMS platform that ranks about in the middle of the pack with the other 'modern day' CMS systems out there. It's not as complex and frustrating as Magento, but it's also not as easy or robust to work on as Wordpress. Thankfully when we do … Incentivized Helpful? Richard Gosler Managing Director Chose Joomla Wordpress has to be preloaded with a stack of plugins and a cache just to match 'out of the box' Joomla! That's why we switched. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Joomla I don't believe Joomla compares to any other programs I have used. There are similar products, but none that are quite as easy. Incentivized Helpful? Sanjeev Raghuwanshi Joomla Developer Chose Joomla 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. Incentivized Helpful? PW Philip Walton Owner Chose Joomla 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 … Incentivized Helpful? AR Adrian Romero Brand designer Chose Joomla 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Sergey Gvozdetskiy Sales Manager Chose Joomla Joomla! provides a good starting point with all templates, both free and paid. Incentivized Helpful? Fernanda Ministerio Especialista de Desenvolvimento Industrial Chose Joomla 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. Incentivized Helpful? Nuno Reis CIO (Chief Information Officer) Chose Joomla 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Lonela Marinela Senior Product UX/UI Designer-Developer Chose Joomla 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. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Joomla 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. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Joomla Joomla is more of a developer's CMS. It is much more customizable than WordPress. Incentivized Helpful? Vinny Hebert Owner Chose Joomla 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Jason Montoya Virtual Chief Growth Officer (CGO) Chose Joomla 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Joomla 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! Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Joomla 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Josh Randall Co-Owner, Operations & Marketing Manager Chose Joomla We selected Joomla because of the available extensions met are needs at the time. Incentivized Helpful? Lisa Keyser Owner \| Principal Chose Joomla 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, … Incentivized Helpful? Miles Szkoda Web Content Manager Chose Joomla 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. … Incentivized Helpful? Brittney Collier Marketing Assistant Chose Joomla 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Ricardo Melo Network Analyst 1 Chose Joomla 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 … Incentivized Helpful?	Umbraco CMS Verified User Anonymous Chose Umbraco CMS We preferred Umbraco because it is built with .NET, and most of our team members have proficiency in .NET. Umbraco is open-source so it was free, we could deploy it anywhere - on-premise or cloud. Umbraco had all features which we needed - SEO support, multi-lingual support, … Incentivized Helpful? Lori Jerome Digital Content Manager Chose Umbraco CMS Someone else selected before I came on board but I was open-minded and willing to give it a try. Incentivized Helpful? Janus Kamp Hansen Developer Chose Umbraco CMS Episerver CMS and Sitecore Web Content Management Incentivized Helpful? JE Jerker Edenborg System Developer Chose Umbraco CMS The performance of Umbraco is as good as Episerver. The back office in Umbraco is cleaner and more intuitive than Episerver. Sitecore is a good CMS for large projects, but the learning curve for developers and editors is steep. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Umbraco CMS Umbraco's templating is far superior than WordPress, Drupal and Joomla, but it's update process is WAY behind those platforms. The release schedule of Umbraco is way to often and most releases are to fix something missed in the previous release and not an improvement or new … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Umbraco CMS The learning curve to develop a web application is very short. The time to market is then insignificant. Umbraco is free and open source. Incentivized Helpful? Jakub Wilk President & Co-Founder Chose Umbraco CMS We chose Umbraco because of their technology, and it was better than our previous CMS, Orchard, which was too complicated even for programmers. Orchard was very good but to develop something it required a really strong knowledge of this framework. In Umbraco it seems to be … Incentivized Helpful? Debbie Marshall Operations Manager Chose Umbraco CMS We previously used Wordpress, however this was not easy to use, it was a complicated system and was limited in what we could achieve, there was a big outlay in buying bolts on and ensuring the system was safe. We found we where spammed loads, we tried to make it work however … Incentivized Helpful? Jason Kelly Data Manager Chose Umbraco CMS Both are comparable. We selected Umbraco CMS because it used .NET instead of PHP. I would recommend choosing the CMS that your staff and technical people will be the most comfortable with. Incentivized Helpful? Alex Lada Tech Director Chose Umbraco CMS Umbraco provides the best bang-for-the-buck CMS option on a .NET platform for those that cannot afford Sitecore. It is much friendlier to use than Ektron, is free to use, has commercial grade plugins that are not overly expensive, and provides the functionality that most … Incentivized Helpful? Matthew Hardesty Founder Chose Umbraco CMS Umbraco vs WordPress Umbraco has more flexibility and customization options, but less features, reliability/stability, and community support. WordPress offers less customization for data and content, but it is immensely more stable, has better features /plugins, and includes an … Incentivized Helpful? Filip Witkowski Web Developer Chose Umbraco CMS There is not really an alternative when it comes to CMS based on ASP.Net (MVC4 with Razor). There are a few frameworks, like Booststrap; however framework is not content management system. I will compare it to Drupal, because the second one is well known. Against Drupal, … Helpful?

Features

Joomla!

Umbraco CMS

Security

Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
	Joomla! 8.3 Ratings 1% above category average	Umbraco CMS 9.0 Ratings 9% above category average
Role-based user permissions	8.30 Ratings	9.00 Ratings

Platform & Infrastructure

Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
	Joomla! 6.7 Ratings 15% below category average	Umbraco CMS 8.5 Ratings 9% above category average
API	7.20 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language	6.10 Ratings	9.00 Ratings

Web Content Creation

Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
	Joomla! 7.7 Ratings 1% below category average	Umbraco CMS 8.0 Ratings 2% above category average
WYSIWYG editor	8.30 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness	8.50 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Admin section	8.30 Ratings	7.00 Ratings
Page templates	7.00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Library of website themes	6.40 Ratings	6.00 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design	7.60 Ratings	6.00 Ratings
Publishing workflow	8.40 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Form generator	7.50 Ratings	7.00 Ratings

Web Content Management

Comparison of Web Content Management features of Product A and Product B
	Joomla! 7.6 Ratings 1% above category average	Umbraco CMS 7.2 Ratings 4% below category average
Content taxonomy	7.90 Ratings	6.00 Ratings
SEO support	7.60 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Bulk management	8.00 Ratings	7.00 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions	7.00 Ratings	7.00 Ratings
Community / comment management	7.20 Ratings	6.00 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Joomla!	Umbraco CMS
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Medium-sized Companies	RWS Tridion Sites Score 9.0 out of 10	RWS Tridion Sites Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprises	RWS Tridion Sites Score 9.0 out of 10	RWS Tridion Sites Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Joomla!	Umbraco CMS
Likelihood to Recommend	8.2 (0 ratings)	6.0 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	8.0 (0 ratings)	8.0 (0 ratings)
Availability	9.9 (0 ratings)	7.0 (0 ratings)
Performance	7.8 (0 ratings)	3.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	10.0 (0 ratings)	2.0 (0 ratings)
Online Training	8.0 (0 ratings)	3.0 (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	8.7 (0 ratings)	7.0 (0 ratings)
Product Scalability	9.9 (0 ratings)	4.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Joomla!	Umbraco CMS
Likelihood to Recommend	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. PW Philip Walton Owner Read full review	Umbraco is well suited for websites that are looking to do a wide range of activities that require complex technoligies. An example of this is a company with several different products or services. Umbraco would be overkill for simple sites that are mostly static. It is also difficult to find developers who have Umbraco experience, as it's market share is not all that high Incentivized Jason Kelly Data Manager Read full review
Pros	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. Incentivized Sergey Gvozdetskiy Sales Manager Read full review	Quick to learn. For most if cases, developer needs to know Razor coding. Doesn't require back-end programming. Has build in users management (developers, content managers) and members management consoles (users of the site). Clear admin tool (especially in version 7) Fast. Creating code from scratch, so it is easier to create clean code. Filip Witkowski Web Developer Read full review
Cons	Updating was never as seamless/easy as it seems to be with Wordpress. Obviously we accounted for this with our own workflow/methods, but I remember whenever we did WordPress updates it always seemed a breeze compared to the time/energy involved with a Joomla update/upgrade. For a while (I think this has changed some) Joomla left itself open to attacks when administrators were not as well versed as they should be. There were developer additions that did security checks/audits for you, but the CMS was the subject of a lot of attacks when left in the hands of our clients for a long time (who had changed permissions to make editing easier/convenient). Ideally the CMS would have been more restrictive on some of these things to prevent easy abuse. Obviously this is more the fault of the misinformed/human then the CMS, but it could have been more dummy-proof. No native versioning. There are some community extensions that add this functionality, but they pale in comparison to the versioning plugins of other CMS's (WordPress specifically). Again this was some time ago and in our experience, it could have changed by now. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Migration of data between servers. There are tools that you can pay for that help facilitate this, but like any CMS system, there are still some tricks to getting it to work correctly. Running as a Web Project instead of a Web Site. Umbraco does not run compiled code, but instead compiles it on the fly. I find this to cause some performance issues that would otherwise be resolved with a compiled code base. Incentivized Alex Lada Tech Director Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	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. Incentivized Leontine Vandermeer Owner Read full review	No answers on this topic
Usability	The user experience and interface are good, but sometimes it is down. Delayed in the loading speed. Workflows can be simplified, and understanding templates needs much time. It is user-friendly and with multi-language support. Users can be added to the groups, which is easier. User controls can also be created based on role-based permission. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Umbraco CMS effectively addresses enterprise content management needs. It's quite mature .NET based CMS, standing out as a leader among its competitors. Websites built with Umbraco are blazing fast. Extensive customization capabilities, and user-friendly content publishing interface makes it an ideal choice for businesses looking for a mature CMS solution. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Reliability and Availability	No answers on this topic	Occasionally, errors will appear in the admin that make it impossible to work without developer support. Incentivized Matthew Hardesty Founder Read full review
Performance	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. Incentivized James Fauria Webmaster \ Web Developer for the City of Pomona Read full review	Working in the admin panel (adding / reviewing / editing content) is very slow. The public facing site speed is dependent on what the pages are doing and how well the code was written (whether it is optimized for speed). Incentivized Matthew Hardesty Founder Read full review
Support Rating	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. Incentivized Jen Garfinkel-Canseco Owner - Web Designer/Developer/Marketer Read full review	Support for Umbraco-owned paid plugins is nonexistent. Incentivized Matthew Hardesty Founder Read full review
Online Training	It is good if you know Joomla! if not it can get a bit confusing Johann Joubert Owner Read full review	Online training is often based on older versions of the platform. So, you'll have to fill in the gaps on your own. Incentivized Matthew Hardesty Founder Read full review
Implementation Rating	Make sure that PHP.ini is set to at least 60 ms for computer priority, 60MB for maximum downloads and 128MB for uploads. This is the minimum. It is best to run Joomla on a business host if you are using a shared hosting environment so that there are fewer accounts on the server. Make sure you have access to the root on CPanel. Be sure to point the DNS to the host and set up all zones prior to implementation and run your new version in a sub-domain hidden from the live version until you are ready to cut over. Rita Lewis Freelance Web Designer and Content Strategist Read full review	Spend the time to wireframe the content structure prior to diving in. This helps speed the process of implementation and it serves as documentation for end users. Incentivized Matthew Hardesty Founder Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Joomla is a very stable and secure CMS platform that ranks about in the middle of the pack with the other 'modern day' CMS systems out there. It's not as complex and frustrating as Magento, but it's also not as easy or robust to work on as WordPress. Thankfully when we do utilize it, there's still an online community our we can bounce issues and ideas off of. Incentivized JM Jeff Montgomery CTO Read full review	We previously used WordPress, however this was not easy to use, it was a complicated system and was limited in what we could achieve, there was a big outlay in buying bolts on and ensuring the system was safe. We found we where spammed loads, we tried to make it work however after a year we decided to leave WordPress behind. The company did evaluated Adobe but the dev team decided that Umbraco was the best tool to meet our own needs. Incentivized Debbie Marshall Operations Manager Read full review
Scalability	No answers on this topic	Without significant development, the product does not scale well. Incentivized Matthew Hardesty Founder Read full review
Return on Investment	Deploying Joomla! for clients has helped them discover the benefits of using Open Source software while helping them appreciate our expertise. Because the Joomla! community is smaller than the WP community, we are able to reach a wide range of clients looking for experts in the software, boosting our bottom line. Occasionally a client will find Joomla! too complicated and wish to move to a proprietary DIY CMS, which we do not support, so we have lost clients looking for that level of flexibility. Incentivized Lisa Keyser Owner \| Principal Read full review	CMS is free Support form Umbraco HQ is not expensive, can include Courier or other functionality For most cases does not need back end developer For trained Umbraco developers (Razor coding, using admin tool), developing medium site, takes a few weeks max Filip Witkowski Web Developer Read full review
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