Joomla Still Gets It Done For Developers
May 19, 2025

Joomla Still Gets It Done For Developers

Jeff Montgomery | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Joomla!

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).
  • Joomla helps us "get cute" coding-wise and allows our developers to work in a space where they aren't worried about core updates overriding code.
  • Joomla doesn't allow us to easily add various add-ons (such as plugins) that other platforms have, thus slowing down efforts in those scenarios.
  • The Joomla community (mainly for developers) is still active, but it's just not as robust as other platforms.
  • The security of the code does give us a 'sigh of relief' - which can be huge in some cases where we're doing more complex integrations
Joomla is still a decent CMS, but it's more targeted for developers rather than your front-end coders looking to be 'in-and-out' quickly with a good looking functional website that has quick bells and whistles. So, because of this, Joomla lacks the ability to offer us what we need in more than 85% of our marketing scenarios and projects.
Joomla is a very stable and secure CMS platform that ranks about in the middle of the pack with the other 'modern day' CMS systems out there. It's not as complex and frustrating as Magento, but it's also not as easy or robust to work on as WordPress. Thankfully when we do utilize it, there's still an online community our we can bounce issues and ideas off of.

Do you think Joomla! delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Joomla!'s feature set?

No

Did Joomla! live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Joomla! go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Joomla! again?

Yes

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.

Joomla Feature Ratings

6.8
WYSIWYG editor
6
Code quality / cleanliness
9
Admin section
7
Page templates
6
Library of website themes
4
Mobile optimization / responsive design
7
Publishing workflow
7
Form generator
8
4.8
Content taxonomy
6
SEO support
6
Bulk management
5
Availability / breadth of extensions
2
Community / comment management
5
5.5
API
5
Internationalization / multi-language
6
9.0
Role-based user permissions
9
CMS programming language or framework ()
Not Rated

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