Joomla is a great CMS which can be used for free or a very low ongoing cost.
October 18, 2019

Joomla is a great CMS which can be used for free or a very low ongoing cost.

Josh Randall | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Joomla!

We use Joomla to run and manage our website as well as send email blasts and provide banner ads to sponsors. It works very well and we plan to continue to use it for the foreseeable future. It's pretty easy to use overall and there are tons of features and extensions that allow you to do almost anything from running a store, photo gallery, classified ads, etc.
  • Joomla is great for managing various website pages and updating content regularly.
  • We've also used it to sell items in our store. We installed a shopping cart and integrated it with PayPal.
  • We have users register to be able to get access to all features of our website, such as posting on the forums. Works great for that.
  • Updating Joomla and some extensions can be a little clucky at times.
  • Joomla has had a great impact and a high ROI. A lot of extensions are free and well supported as well as Joomla itself being free and extremely well supported. It's hard to beat that.
We selected Joomla because of the available extensions met are needs at the time.
I think it's well suited for running all kinds of websites, especially ones that require more advanced features like having forums, classified ads, shopping carts, etc. I've found Joomla's blog capabilities to not be as good as WordPress though. I think it takes a little more technical ability to work with Joomla than some other content management systems.

Joomla Feature Ratings

WYSIWYG editor
7
Code quality / cleanliness
8
Admin section
8
Page templates
8
Library of website themes
9
Mobile optimization / responsive design
9
Publishing workflow
9
Form generator
9
Content taxonomy
10
SEO support
8
Bulk management
7
Availability / breadth of extensions
9
Community / comment management
8
API
9
Internationalization / multi-language
Not Rated
Role-based user permissions
9