Make sure it's the right fit for your team - for many, it's not
February 11, 2019
Make sure it's the right fit for your team - for many, it's not
Score 3 out of 10
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Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Joomla!
We work with the Joomla CMS when helping customers with website updates, maintenance, and new functionality. Joomla is a Content Management System - so it provides an interface for customers to make updates to their website on their own. It also provides a framework for custom functionality and a library of extensions written by the community to extend its core functionality.
- The menu/category/article structure provides a decent organization.
- The check-in/check-out system can work well to prevent overwrites with large numbers of editors.
- Creating a community-driven site - with large numbers of contributors.
- The Process is smoother with the latest versions.
- There is a bit of a learning curve in order to make edits as compared to other CMSs.
- Upgrading from older versions is very difficult.
- The framework is decent, but it's not the most flexible, nor the most intuitive.
- It allows the management of website content by a wider range of clients and team members.
- Its framework makes certain types of features easier to develop (rather than building from scratch).
Joomla is one of the least intuitive options and has had some issues with updates in the past, as compared to WordPress. Magento has similar issues, but Joomla doesn't have as much flexibility as Magento (and of course, Joomla does not have e-commerce features built-in). Unfortunately, it's in the mushy middle as I see it.