WP does indeed create the menu items automatically when you create a new article. However, that can sometimes be a disadvantage as well. For instance, you want to create a sales page which you only want to show to subscribers of your newsletter. Then you will have to digg into the WP-code to exclude that particular page.
In Joomla, this is easier, but the drawback is indeed that you have to create a menu item for every article.
That said, there are workarounds for Joomla to get automated menu linking, especially when you use the blog layout option.

My idea is that, although I love to work with Wordpress, Joomla is definitely better equipped to create a portal with, because of the sections. You can assign a person to deal with section A, another with section B, etc … These sections can all show up on the home page at the same time. WP doesn’t have that functionality. And yes, you can create complicated workarounds to achieve the same goal in WP, but at the end of the day, you will find that Joomla is in that sense easier to work with, because it is really made for this sort of thing.

I hope this helps?

I think this guy used wordpress, it must be a plugin of sorts that is producing the search, this has confused me because this does not look like WP at all and want I want, I use joomla but annoys me sometimes as it does not create a menulink automatically unless you use link to menu item in the article but does not use sub menu items,at this stage, what is the difference between a portal and cms, cms is joomla or wp but portal is not wp.. but there seem to be a lot of plugins for wp , which kind makes it a portal? thanks . I thought wp added menulinks as you made the article, someone in the post seems to think it does not

Thanks
john

Wordpress is a wonderful blog if that’s all that you are doing and all you ever want to do. But if you want flexibility…go with Joomla!…

Unfortunately, when people get the warning that a new version of wordpress is available…they tend to freak and want to get the upgraded version immediately, thinking that their site is going to break if they don’t upgrade. It reminds me of the little girl who was building a tower of legos; every time she found a new piece in the box she would scream “It’s gonna fall! Hurry!” and I would have to rush and put the lego on top before “it fell”.

The only thing is that once you have things exactly as you want. you should not upgrade your WordPress cos then as you said things will just break.

I also very recently rebuilt my entire website in Joomla!, though before it was built in Wordpress. I did this because I was becoming annoyed at the fact that it would take me several hours to add new pages that would look and do what I wanted. Rather than having to create new page templates and css stylesheets, I chose to go with Joomla!

I also found a great article written on the Joomla! site (though it is not biased at all) that points out how Joomla!, Wordpress and Drupal are the top three CMS / Blogging systems out there. Choose any of them and you’re a winner…well, depending on what you want your website to do.

Joomla! is a Content Management system (not a portal, though it could be used as one…) This means that it is used to aggregate a lot of content and put it into a nice form on your website. This includes blogs, magazines, newsletters, articles, knowledge bases, tutorials, forums, and much more.

Wordpress is a blog. That’s it. That’s all that it ever will be succesfully. The code is written sloppily and with every upgrade the system breaks a plugin that has been installed, or a theme that has been custom designed. It’s also extremely dificult to make it do what you want, as I’ve spent many hours trying to do just that. Even something as simple as adding a gallery on a page that links to specific URL’s that you tell it to, and is displayed in a way that is not in the core code can be dificult and tedious to accomplish.

Granted, it’s a wonderful blog if that’s all that you are doing and all you ever want to do. But if you want flexibility…go with Joomla! or even Drupal.