TrustRadius Insights for Joomla! are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.
Pros
Versatility and Customizability: Users have found Joomla to be highly versatile and customizable, allowing them to create websites that meet their specific needs. Several reviewers have mentioned how they were able to tailor the CMS to their unique requirements, making it a popular choice for businesses and organizations.
User-Friendly Interface: Many users appreciate the user-friendly interface of Joomla. They find it easy to navigate and perform various tasks without much hassle. The logical and intuitive admin interface has been praised by several reviewers, highlighting its contribution to a smooth user experience.
Availability of Third-Party Components and Extensions: Reviewers have expressed their satisfaction with the availability of third-party components and extensions in Joomla's marketplace. This wide range of options allows users to enhance the functionality of their websites by adding features like e-commerce capabilities, social media integration, and more. Some users have even mentioned specific third-party components that have greatly benefited their website development process.
Joomla! is a great CMS, we use it if we need a site builder that is more complicated than what a Wordpress site will be used for but not quite as complicated as a Drupal site. Joomla! is easily updated, but can be a more complex build than Wordpress or some other cookie cutter page builders.
Pros
Content management system
Website development
Custom site development
Cons
Being more intuitive
Having a more robust community
Design updates could be easier
Likelihood to Recommend
If I thought it was a right fit for a colleague I would highly recommend Joomla!. Sadly Wordpress or Drupal can usually fill the bill and Joomla! is a bit more complicated for casual use. However, if a client wanted a non-Wordpress website and completely custom, I would push Joomla! as the ideal CMS
We use Joomla! as a user management and API plugin for our Virtual classroom. It is also used as the administrator login and integrates well with third-party tools, making them easy to integrate. The implementation process is simple and easy. It supports users all over the world. Easy to check our client details and share the emails in bulk. Admin can create separate groups and manage them.
Pros
It supports third party tools
User Management that allows the admin to create and manage users
It is easy to set up groups and manage the users
Emails can be share in bulk and private message to the users
Cons
It can offer native integration
Improvements on the updates
Drag and drop is missing
Likelihood to Recommend
Membership-based, which helps to set the access level. Multi-factor authentication is protective for onboard users. It has API integration and provides role-based permissions for the users. An extension that made it easier for us. It supports marketing and customer management that helps to share emails in bulk and share private messages to particular users or those who are in groups.
Using Joomla! as CMS website toolI have been using Joomla for the User management and providing role based access for users.Running live classes with API plugins.
Pros
Can use as CMS website
Install plugins and extensions easily
Build varous application with Joomla
Cons
Need to improve stability
Website creation is not simple as wordpress
hard tp troubleshoot the compatabilities
Likelihood to Recommend
User Management Access Management Installing Extensions is easy
We utilize Joomla! for ease of creating and managing our website internally. We appreciated that Joomla! enabled us to keep our content current and be able to publish what we needed without requiring technical skills. The main issues that Joomla! Helped minimize were the simplicity of updates on the website, the time spent on updates, and the need for technical support. Our use case of Joomla! consists of posting our news, managing our events, and sharing information with our audience. Joomla! covers much of our website management needs and helps us keep organized and connected to our users.
Pros
Helping us easily update website content.
Build forms, and manage user access.
Adding extra features with extensions.
Cons
Difficult for beginners to learn.
Complex to use some features.
Limited options for easy design customization.
Likelihood to Recommend
In my experience, it works well for large websites with numerous pages, such as community sites or online directories. It’s less suitable for small websites or simple pages that don’t need many features. It’s also not ideal for rapid, lightweight sites.
Joomla! is the best content management system (CMS), which helps to manage all our platforms' backends in one place. We also have a virtual classroom API key, where we can schedule a class in Joomla! using plugins
Pros
best administration software that handles everything
helps to sell our API products as they can use it in Joomla!
manage all our progress, easy to setup and use
Cons
Joomla! is quite down in their UI/UX, however we can modify by our own style
they can improve and implement more features
can be improve the security side
Likelihood to Recommend
As Joomla! is an open-source platform, in our organization, we handle all our backends in Joomla!, including API handling. It serves as a hub where we can connect all our systems in one place.
My experience with Joomla! is amazing, I love this tool
We create various offshoot initiatives from time to time, including satellite websites with specific targeting purposes like landing pages, quick e-com one-pagers, blogs for organic SEO, and more. We're always open to using various CMS systems to help us achieve these goals, and we used Joomla in the past. We worked on Joomla's platform for a few initiatives regarding our targeted ad marketing efforts, which needed a home for click-throughs.
Pros
The system is very stable and secure to work on, and its upgrades are decently developer-friendly (when applied).
The coding framework allows our core developers to quickly build custom items.
It's user management and user area features work quite well.
It's already integrated SEO capabilities are decently easy to work with.
Cons
We quickly found that Joomla is more oriented toward working with custom development rather than "quick-and-easy" websites for marketing initiatives.
There are other user interfaces (such as Wordpress) that are more user friendly overall.
Its plugin feature isn't as robust as other platforms, especially regarding e-commerce.
We by far prefer working with Yoast (Wordpress friendly) than PWT SEO).
Likelihood to Recommend
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.
I run a digital agency and the majority of our web builds are with Joomla! CMS. Since changing from Wordpress we can deliver completed sites more quickly, with more features and greater security than anything else on the market. Our clients appreciate the fact that their sites are better optimised without recourse to third party plugins and that they running faster.
Pros
More core features than wordpress
Greater security than competitors
Blazing speed without using cache plugins.
Cleaner interface for admin users.
Cons
There are numerous ecommerce components but it would be good to see one with the ubiquity of woocommerce.
Likelihood to Recommend
Thanks to its sophisticated user management it works really well for ecommerce, subscription and multiuser sites. We've built sites for sole traders up to multinationals with it and both are equally happy with the outcome so couldn't think of a scenario where I would not recommend it.
We used Joomla to edit our content and maintain our website. All of our page edits were done via Joomla, as well as building new pages. This solved the problem of bulky editors plus allowed us to edit on the fly or remotely off site, which was a huge plus.
Pros
Simple editing
Easy page setup
Great templates
Cons
Has a steep learning curve
Must have a basic understand of website development
Must understand the language
Likelihood to Recommend
It is more suited in an environment where there are several team members who work from different locations. It was easier for us to use Joomla if we were working off-site or we were working remotely.
I am a Joomla! Developer having around 8 years of experience. I have started working [with] Joomla [since the] 1.5 version. I really like the Joomla! structure. While I am also working on WordPress, I love Joomla! because of its strong backend and MVC structure.
I have worked for many clients in Joomla!. It is more secure and well managed than WordPress but it has fewer templates or themes available for everything compared to WordPress. The same thing for SEO purposes, WordPress has lots of plugins available to boost website blogs. So nowadays Joomla! [is] going down in comparison to WordPress. Every Blogger recommends WordPress.
Pros
Joomla! [has the] best component for eCommerce website that is Virtuemart and Hikashop.
Joomla! [has the] best component for membership like RS Membership. It manages memberships in [a] very well manner.
Joomla! [has a] Drag and Drop template like Helix Ultimate framework - JoomShaper.
[It] is [a] very good theme provider.
Cons
First of all, I suggest to Joomla! Support Team, it should be more flexible to reply. There are no live chat options available. It should be developed.
Joomla! templates need to develop more functionalities like WordPress where templates [are] available for most of [the] functionalities.
Joomla! SEO options [are] not enough.
Likelihood to Recommend
Joomla! is well suited for membership, eCommerce website, quizzes, and portfolio website, while you can create your blog's website.
We used Joomla! to make our website. It was so easy to set up with just a few clicks of the mouse and the database details added. Odd as its the same process as wordpress yet a lot of blogs say its harder, I think they are just comparing with older versions. There are a lot of new features in the new Joomla! 4 that we needed, workflows, and the very high accessibility standards so that our site can be viewed by all. There [are] a lot of helpful videos and documentation out there which really helped get us up and running. It's also a free product with 16 years of development behind it so the community who are making this know what they are doing. The media manager has come on leaps and bounds.
Pros
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
Cons
There is not much. I think perhaps a built in cookie system but thats planned for 4.1
Always welcome more tutorials but they seem to have a fair few
Not all extensions have been converted to [Joomla!] 4 but the important ones are there
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.
