Comments on: Wordpress Vs Joomla as a CMS

By: Chet

Chet — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 04:47:21 +0000

@Russell “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”

Looks like he isn’t going to make any money though. The site is so slow as to be unusable. Oh, look his adsense manager is sucking up all the load time. Nice!

By: Love2Shop

Love2Shop — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:56:37 +0000

Thanks for such a great review, it really help in deciding which platform to choose.

By: Gerry

Gerry — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:12:24 +0000

I have tried joomla for sometime, i think wp is light and easy to use and it is more personal.

By: John Rothko

John Rothko — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 10:42:05 +0000

… for clients to install upgrades because they cannot be done with hte push of a button as with WP. BUT again, I love to work with both systems.

By: John Rothko

John Rothko — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 10:36:02 +0000

@Anubhav: I actually do not think Joomla is better as such. It just depends what kind of site you have. You have to watch it not to fall in the trap of Mercedes vs BMW argumentation because that is an emotional discussion, not a rational one. Joomla is certainly not the easiest cms to work with and if things go wrong, it can turn into a real nightmare. I often have to jump in

By: Riju

Riju — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:42:59 +0000

Joomla has the most and the highest level of flexibility ..s far as my experience goes.. I have been using it for 5 months now..at a stretch..without any glitch. There are tonnes of addons, Plugins and modules.The CSS and the templates are very flexible. The SeF module is a rock star. The joomla has just started to grow…

By: Anubhav

Anubhav — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 06:19:00 +0000

Well ! The two have their pros and cons but I personally feel joomla to be much better. Although most of the things can be achieved in both of them, sometimes at hand but sometimes rarely. Well ! Joomla is really powerfull in the sense that it have superb integration and compatibity with other softwares. The components like rtbridge, jfusion and mehdiplugins etc can easily take you embed phpbb on your site. Thats just an example but there’s much more in that.

By: John Rothko

John Rothko — Tue, 26 May 2009 16:22:36 +0000

Hi Russell,

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?

By: Russell

Russell — Mon, 25 May 2009 22:06:40 +0000

http://www.yourgolfreview.com

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

By: John Rothko

John Rothko — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:05:01 +0000

Interesting viewpoints here. I agree with AnotherGuy on the update warning of WP, althuogh I do love to work with both systems. I actually wrote a Joomla vs Wordpress review myself which is not so much a pro-contra but rather a comparison of features.
Perhaps you are interested in the article?
Here it is: http://www.miracletutorials.com/wordpress-vs-joomla-review/ If you have any comments or suggestions, they are most welcome.

Thanks
john