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    Joomla

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/AJoomla! 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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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
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    Joomla
    Considered Both Products
    The Joomla Project
    Chose Joomla
    Comparing to other Platform handling user management is easy with Joomla.
    various extensions really helpful for core level applicatiion
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    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 …
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    low cost, easily accessible, very economical.
    Incentivized
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    Chose Joomla
    Joomla! provides a good starting point with all templates, both free and paid.
    Incentivized
    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
    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
    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
    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
    Chose Joomla
    Joomla is more of a developer's CMS. It is much more customizable than WordPress.
    Incentivized
    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 …
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    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 …
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    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
    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
    Chose Joomla
    We selected Joomla because of the available extensions met are needs at the time.
    Incentivized
    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
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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…
    Incentivized
    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
    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 …
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    93%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    93%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    87%
    Happy with the feature set
    13 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    10 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    14 Answers
    Features
    Joomla
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Joomla!
    Feature
    Joomla!
    8.3
    51 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Role-based user permissions8.351 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Joomla!
    Feature
    Joomla!
    6.6
    48 Ratings
    17% below category average
    API7.246 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language6.047 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Joomla!
    Feature
    Joomla!
    7.7
    54 Ratings
    2% below category average
    WYSIWYG editor8.353 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness8.551 Ratings
    Admin section8.249 Ratings
    Page templates7.052 Ratings
    Library of website themes6.350 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design7.550 Ratings
    Publishing workflow8.450 Ratings
    Form generator7.446 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of Joomla!
    Feature
    Joomla!
    7.6
    52 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Content taxonomy7.951 Ratings
    SEO support7.650 Ratings
    Bulk management8.049 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions7.052 Ratings
    Community / comment management7.150 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Joomla
    Small Businesses
    Umbraco CMS
    Score7 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Square Online
    Score7.8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    RWS Tridion Sites
    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Joomla
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.2
    (75 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (28 ratings)
    Usability
    7.9
    (14 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
    If your developers want to have some fun, Joomla offers the stability and friendliness to do custom coding. Certain marketing initiatives require us to get "cute" with the interface, and Joomla allows for that a bit easier than WordPress (and definitely easier than sites like Squarespace). The security of Joomla is also always a plus.
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    Pros
    The Joomla Project
    • Security. Its got many new features in the new Joomla! 4 which make the already good security even better. I like the ability to use my Yubi keys to log in with the new webauth standard, I don't think any other CMS has that built in
    • W3C Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 (with AA compliance)
    • Really good SEO that gets our sites to the top of the search engines again without the need for any extra things
    • Speed, it gets a really good score (100%) in the google lighthouse on our server, can't beat that
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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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