New Joomla! 4 jumps ahead of the others
September 06, 2021
New Joomla! 4 jumps ahead of the others
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Joomla!
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.
- 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
- 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
- Massive. It's a free system that does most of what you need out of the box and is really easy to use.
- We got involved in a local user group (JUG) and their monthly meetings allow us to get expert advice for free!
- It's one of those unicorns you come across and think, where's the catch? But the reality is [there's] just a passionate community behind it.
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 the first to go MVC, was the first with so many things that others are catching up, and its not had a zero day exploit for years and years, that is not true for the others.
The only difference is it has a community and not an owner who is behind it promoting it, so it doesn't spend the money on advertising and they don't make money but do it as a passion.
It's one of those gems that the review sites cannot make affiliate money from as there are no affiliate market returns with Joomla! core so it's not pushed, but that's not a true reflection of how good it is, just how the review sites often want an affiliate link to make money.
The only difference is it has a community and not an owner who is behind it promoting it, so it doesn't spend the money on advertising and they don't make money but do it as a passion.
It's one of those gems that the review sites cannot make affiliate money from as there are no affiliate market returns with Joomla! core so it's not pushed, but that's not a true reflection of how good it is, just how the review sites often want an affiliate link to make money.
Do you think Joomla! delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Joomla!'s feature set?
Yes
Did Joomla! live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Joomla! go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Joomla! again?
Yes