Joomla is a Robust Open-Source CMS
December 22, 2018
Joomla is a Robust Open-Source CMS
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Joomla!
Joomla is the content management system used for my companies main site and training site. It will also be the CMS for an online summit that is in the process of being built. All departments use it and it addresses the need for a CMS that is effective, useful and overall easy to use.
- Joomla has great core functionalities and is free to use.
- Joomla has a built-in user management system which allows you to control who accesses certain aspects of your site.
- Joomla is search engine optimized out of the box.
- Joomla is continuously updating itself and I am amazed at what has been accomplished for the better since I started using it.
- Joomla allows me as a simple website designer and developer to build complex sites without much of a need to hire developers.
- The out of the box blogging situation with Joomla definitely needs improving. It is pretty basic, however, there are extensions both free and paid that handle this gap. Joomla 4 is fast on the horizon so I hope this feature is addressed there.
- Joomla's media management system has improved, however, it could use more updating. It would be nice to be able to make simple edits for images.
- Joomla needs more modules to choose from for certain things users may be trying to create.
- Using Joomla has increased my traffic flow over 300% from using another paid website company.
- Using Joomla has immensely improved my SEO for my site. There are tools on Joomla for this and it has helped a lot.
- Using Joomla has allowed me to create a community-based website without the need of a developer.
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 the Wordpress plugins seemed to break the site quite readily. Wordpress does have a better media manager, however, Joomla is vastly improving the CMS with every new update.