Drupal vs. Joomla!

Drupal

379 Reviews and Ratings

Joomla!

286 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Drupal	Score6.9 out of 10	N/A	Drupal is a free, open-source content management system written in PHP that competes primarily with Joomla and Plone. The standard release of Drupal, known as Drupal core, contains basic features such as account and menu management, RSS feeds, page layout customization, and system administration.	N/A
Joomla	Score8.3 out of 10	N/A	Joomla! is a free and open source content management system used to publish web content. Included features are page caching, RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news flashes, blogs, polls, a search function, and support for language internationalization.	N/A

Pricing

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Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
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Considered Both Products	Drupal.org Fernanda Ministerio Especialista de Desenvolvimento Industrial in Information Technology at SENAI-DN (Non-profit Organization Management, 10,001+ employees) Chose Drupal We use both, for different projects (Joomla and Drupal). Drupal proved to be more robust, more secure and more integrable with PHP applications. Drupal requires a more senior technical team but allows for more complex activities. It's great if you have a medium to a large … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Drupal Drupal is far more usable and stable than Joomla!, and the developer community support is significantly stronger. While Drupal is often compared to WordPress, they are fundamentally different platforms, and in most projects, it's very clear when the requirements are beyond what … Incentivized Helpful? Fred Bals Senior Content Strategist in Marketing at Black Duck Software (Computer Software, 501-1000 employees) Chose Drupal We were looking for an open source CMS. WordPress wasn't powerful enough for our needs. Joomla was too difficult for our team to use. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Drupal We did a comparison of Drupal against Joomla, WordPress, and Ingeniux. We found that its multiple themes available for web pages, user management, comment management, and form generation stands apart from its competitors. Incentivized Helpful? Nate Dillon Front-End Web Developer, Office of Mediated Education in Information Technology at Kansas State University (Higher Education, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Drupal WordPress would be the best alternative to Drupal that I've seen, but in my experience, Drupal is better at complex websites that need a lot of customization. WordPress would be much better suited for a blog than Drupal. I only briefly looked at Joomla, and I wasn't impressed. Incentivized Helpful? Sean Pomory Digital Media Specialist in Marketing at Chesapeake Regional Healthcare (Hospital & Health Care, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Drupal Joomla is terrible. I would never recommend Joomla over Drupal. Drupal's community is much more active and new product updates come out much more quickly. Incentivized Helpful? Joel Tanzi Freelance Web Application Developer at Freelance Web Application Developer (Computer Software, 1-10 employees) Chose Drupal Drupal is well known for being the most flexible of the "Big 3" players in the CMS space. While WordPress remains the most popular due to ease of setup and use, it lacks the flexibility, depth, and modularity of Drupal, causing it to be less desirable when you want more control … Incentivized Helpful? Shane Sevo Director of Marketing in Marketing at Commercial Progression (Internet, 11-50 employees) Chose Drupal Drupal is the king of enterprise opensource content management systems. It is the most robust and comes from the most forward thinking community. Drupal 8 is designed for the next evolution in web design and development. WordPress and Joomla! are stuck in the web 2.0 revolution … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Drupal WordPress has more plugins and it is easier for editing (as a platform) for developers, but Drupal is built on a modern programming language structure and principles, this it makes it much more efficient as CMS. Joomla is another CMS system but it is not widely popular as WordPr… Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Drupal WordPress, Joomla, Expression Engine, Umbraco, Rails. Incentivized Helpful? Bart Martinez Java Developer at Administrative Office of the United States Courts (Government Administration, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Drupal Drupal has a huge amount of community support and a plethora of modules to choose from that add new site features for both users and admins. Joomla! would be a close second but I lack enough experience with it to say if it provides as much customization options. OpenCMS is open … Incentivized Helpful? Thomas Ongeri Frontend Developer in Engineering at Code and Theory (Design, 201-500 employees) Chose Drupal Drupal is highly customizable unlike WordPress and Joomla. It may take a longer time to set up but it works well for the needs of the organizations it is set up for. Incentivized Helpful? Michael Robbe Drupal Developer in Customer Service at Netflix (Entertainment, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Drupal WordPress is like working with an old brick building, aesthetically it's appealing, but restructuring it is difficult, messy, and often takes a considerable amount more effort. It isn't as feature rich, most of the module add-ons are either not well made, or not open-source, so … Incentivized Helpful? Jennifer de Spain Owner at deSpain deSigns (Internet, 1-10 employees) Chose Drupal Drupal cannot really compare to Joomla. Joomla is also a free CMS, is faster to set up, is faster to load for visitors, is easier to maintain, and the extensions are much more reliable - even the free ones. Drupal and WordPress are very different, as Drupal has the power to be … Helpful? Dustin Day Director of UX development, social media and SEO/SEM in Marketing at DFT (a number of local companies under one umbrella) (Marketing & Advertising, 1-10 employees) Chose Drupal Drupal can be more complex to learn, but it offers a much wider range of applications. Drupal’s front and backend can be customized from design to functionality to allow for a wide range of uses. If someone wants to create something more complex than a simple site or blog, … Incentivized Helpful? Ben McClure Head of Development Technologies in Research & Development at Top Floor Technologies (Internet, 11-50 employees) Chose Drupal In my mind, Drupal and WordPress are the top open source CMSes, and I rarely recommend not going with an open source CMS. WordPress can be great, especially for single developers, but I find that the code structure and extensibility of Drupal makes it superior for many use … Incentivized Helpful? Nicholas De Salvo Founder, Creative Director in Marketing at Edge One Media (Design, 1-10 employees) Chose Drupal Drupal has strong role-based permissions for users, powerful content blocks for editing, and granular customizing options in their views. For a company or organization requiring a lot of customization, Drupal can be a really powerful tool. However, Drupal does require … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Drupal We went with Drupal due to prior experience with Drupal as a CMS, however, the previous site was not as complex. Incentivized Helpful? Matt Lundstrom CEO - GlowHost Web Hosting in Corporate at GlowHost.com, LLC (Internet, 11-50 employees) Chose Drupal Drupal like any other software has its own unique strengths and weaknesses. We didn't select to use it for any particular project of our own, we chose to offer Drupal to our end users so that they can make a decision on their own of what the product excels at. Incentivized Helpful? Surinder Sachdeva Senior Web Developer in Information Technology at Palladian Partners, Inc. (Public Relations and Communications, 11-50 employees) Chose Drupal I have used Joomla (a long time ago), and Wordpress. Joomla seemed like a beginner's tool for someone looking for a lightweight CMS. Wordpress is slowly getting there where Drupal is now, but still far behind. Though Wordpress' admin section is beautifully designed and very … Incentivized Helpful? Andres Gonzalez Senior Software Developer in Engineering at swapps.co (Telecommunications, 1-10 employees) Chose Drupal I normally prefer to use WordPress if I need CMS capabilities. If I need more than that, I go with framework. Drupal could be an option when you have to develop something more complex than a blog, or pure content pages. Incentivized Helpful? Jonah McLachlan Web Analyst in Information Technology at Edinburgh Napier University (Higher Education, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Drupal Drupal is a powerful choice for a CMS. Although having complex admin menu and setup process, it has quality security, SEO and speed built in as default. Drupal has caching built into the system, making it double the speed of other compared CMS’s like WordPress. Drupal is … Incentivized Helpful? Guillermo Ramos Head of Platform Engineering in Engineering at Greatist (Internet, 11-50 employees) Chose Drupal Drupal is better than all of these other products 10 times over simply because you can do anything that those other products can do and so much more. You'd need a combination of those products to do what Drupal can do all on its own. Each of those products have inherent … Incentivized Helpful? Josh Lind Drupal web developer in Marketing at Tableau Software (Computer Software, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Drupal Personal experience with WordPress has been that it offers a small fraction of the tools found with Drupal. Experience with Joomla was that add-ons were too far-reaching; they did not allow combining a few smaller tools to craft your final goals. Personal experience with Django … Helpful? Verified User Chose Drupal We opted against Wordpress and Joomla simply because of scalability issues. Each of those platforms are great for performing specific tasks, like creating basic pages, blogs, etc. However, when it comes to building an infrastructure that is going to support 50,000+ users with … Helpful?	The Joomla Project Philip Walton Owner in Information Technology at SoftForge (Internet, 1-10 employees) Chose Joomla 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Jason Montoya Virtual Chief Growth Officer (CGO) in Marketing at JasonScottMontoya.com (Marketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees) Chose Joomla WordPress is designed in a way to make it fairly fool-proof for the admin, but in this approach, it handcuffs the user from having control or making it easy to do, in many cases, what are basic things (changing the title, URL segment, etc...). With the exception of the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Joomla We chose Joomla! over Drupal or WordPress because it's in the middle ground between those two systems. We needed something that can be extended down the road if we need it, but at the same time, it can't be too complex. We felt Drupal is too complex and WordPress seems to be … Incentivized Helpful? Lisa Keyser Owner \| Principal at LMK Web Design & Consulting (Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees) Chose Joomla Joomla! is the #2 Open Source CMS behind WordPress, which we also use, and ahead of Drupal, which we have evaluated but decided not to pursue. Joomla! generally performs better than WP for clients that need more complexity to their websites, including flexibility in templating, … Incentivized Helpful? Miles Szkoda Web Content Manager in Marketing at VertMarkets, Inc. (Publishing, 51-200 employees) Chose Joomla I think Joomla is on-par with Drupal and Umbraco and similar platforms, but WordPress does seem to be above it. WordPress has become so common that there are more and more features becoming available to it that exceed the Joomla platform and make it hard to compete with. WordPre… Incentivized Helpful? Sean Pomory Digital Media Specialist in Marketing at Chesapeake Regional Healthcare (Hospital & Health Care, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Joomla Joomla and Concrete5 have about the same capability and similar issues. Purchasing a SAAS like Squarespace, Weebly or Wix would be worth the price to remove the hassle of Joomla. A more robust free CMS like WordPress or Drupal would be a better solution if you wanted to remain … Incentivized Helpful? Eli Aschkenasy Lead Developer in Information Technology at TheModularWay (Design, 1-10 employees) Chose Joomla Number one difference is the community. I can't stress it more. The joomla! community (both online, and offline) is extraordinarily friendly and accommodating. I have never heard of anyone who felt looked down upon or ridiculed for any type of question, request, or need. If … Incentivized Helpful? Mike Demopoulos Lead Web Developer in Marketing at SPC (Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Joomla WordPress and Drupal are all backed by corporate groups that don't foster the open source community which I want to support. Joomla! is non-profit and 100% volunteer based and the time I put into Joomla! outputs a better product for my clients and everyone else. Incentivized Helpful? Chris Putnam Senior Web Developer in Research & Development at WebpageFX (Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Joomla Joomla is one of the least intuitive options and has had some issues with updates in the past, as compared to WordPress. Magento has similar issues, but Joomla doesn't have as much flexibility as Magento (and of course, Joomla does not have e-commerce features built-in). … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Joomla Overall, I think Joomla! stacks up low compared to the above platforms, particularly through a lens of SEO and mobile responsiveness. Incentivized Helpful? Ilham AB Senior Solution Architect in Information Technology at Three. (Telecommunications, 501-1000 employees) Chose Joomla Joomla! is much easier than those products and with the strong support from Joomla! community and the availability of Joomla! plugins and extensions, then in my point of view, Joomla! is better. Also, Joomla! is very suitable for Portal and e-Commerce creation. Many features … Incentivized Helpful? Mark Goldsmith Owner, Developer, Designer in Professional Services at RegionalLink (Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees) Chose Joomla WordPress is the next competitor, a more complete and robust CMS, with extension solutions to add increased functionality. Well supported by the Joomla community, and strong contractor support for building site projects. It's not as programming friendly as Drupal, but a good … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Joomla After trying WordPress and Drupal, I've realized Joomla is the best middle ground CMS to use. It seems to solve every problem I've had for all sorts of websites. It has great e-commerce solutions, custom app solutions, social web platform solutions, etc. And the list goes on. … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Joomla Again, this was largely our clients decision, and a majority of the time based on our specific target audiences needs, Joomla was the best choice. If you were building a web solution that was primarily a blog, I'd likely recommend WordPress. If you were working with a very … Incentivized Helpful? James Fauria Webmaster \ Web Developer for the City of Pomona in Information Technology at Jaymersun Website Services (Information Technology and Services, 201-500 employees) Chose Joomla Before I settled in on using Joomla for the City of Pomona, I experimented with WordPress and Drupal, as being the right fit for the new website. Each time I went through the analysis, research and development, both WordPress and Drupal, came up short for quickly delivering a … Incentivized Helpful? Robert Jacobi President in Corporate at Arc Technology Group (Computer Software, 1-10 employees) Chose Joomla We utilize Joomla! because it is open source, has one of the largest open source communities, and is flexible across all types and sizes of business environments. Joomla! also provides steady security updates which are installable from within the CMS (WordPress has been failing … Incentivized Helpful? Waseel Akbari Senior SharePoint Administrator/ Web Administrator in Information Technology at NGenious Solutions, Inc (Hospital & Health Care, 501-1000 employees) Chose Joomla Joomla! is widely open and customizable whereas WordPress and Drupal have limits. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Joomla Joomla! can seem a little more complex to use than WordPress right out of the gate. However, that additional complexity brings with it immense power to add and customize the site to perform anything you want it to do. While WordPress is working to add more CMS capabilities with … Incentivized Helpful? Todd Bellamy ERP Specialist in Information Technology at MATECH Solutions (Machining Technologies, Inc.) (Defense & Space, 51-200 employees) Chose Joomla Joomla! is great for large data applications such as sites that hold a large number of products. WordPress and Drupal have very clean and fluid front ends; however that lack the data driven power needed for online retailers. Joomla! sites can be made with responsive layouts and … Helpful? Sarah Banas Software Engineer in Engineering at Linked N Chicago (LiNC) - The Chicago Project LLC (Computer Software, 1-10 employees) Chose Joomla Client needed to upgrade their system from Joomla 1.x to the latest 3.X, only reason why I selected Joomla!. Made no sense in migrating to different CMS if the core was already done. Incentivized Helpful? Alex Jewell Web Developer in Information Technology at DESIGNATION Labs (Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees) Chose Joomla Drupal, compared to Joomla!, is even more customizable and flexible, and is even more modular. Joomla! reels the developer in a bit more and offers a less complicated way to get from start to finish. The outcome, of course, is that Drupal has a steeper learning curve and can … Incentivized Helpful? Jerry Janes Director Digital Marketing Strategy in Marketing at Sting Alarm, Inc. (Internet, 1-10 employees) Chose Joomla Joomla offers more but is harder to learn. Helpful? Jennifer de Spain Owner at deSpain deSigns (Internet, 1-10 employees) Chose Joomla Joomla is much more organized, as far as content, than WordPress and the template customization is much more customizable with Joomla. With WordPress, you have to copy the theme, label it as a child, and configure sometimes over 10 files that make up the theme, plus, you can … Helpful? Andrey Dik Interactive Project Manager / Joomla Developer in Marketing at WinMagic (Computer Software, 51-200 employees) Chose Joomla Joomla is universal solution, meaning it can suit any business with minimal customization. Wordpress was initially developed as blogging platform and it requires a lot more customization in order to fit other business models. Magento is an e-commerce platform. Only Drupal may … Helpful? Cristian Grañó Freelance at percha.com (Program Development, 1-10 employees) Chose Joomla WordPress is the best selection for a simple website; it's clean and easy to use. There is no learning curve for users, but I think the program structure is not the best. It's not a MVC structure, which easier the developement of work. Helpful?
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Features

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Joomla

Comparison of Security features of Drupal and Joomla!
Feature	Drupal 2.0 66 Ratings	Joomla! 9.6 45 Ratings
Role-based user permissions	2.066 Ratings	9.645 Ratings

Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Drupal and Joomla!
Feature	Drupal 7.7 63 Ratings	Joomla! 7.8 42 Ratings
API	9.358 Ratings	6.140 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language	6.054 Ratings	9.541 Ratings

Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Drupal and Joomla!
Feature	Drupal 5.3 69 Ratings	Joomla! 9.0 48 Ratings
WYSIWYG editor	1.062 Ratings	9.547 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness	9.366 Ratings	9.745 Ratings
Admin section	3.069 Ratings	10.044 Ratings
Page templates	4.068 Ratings	6.146 Ratings
Library of website themes	3.059 Ratings	8.144 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design	10.063 Ratings	9.644 Ratings
Publishing workflow	9.367 Ratings	9.544 Ratings
Form generator	3.064 Ratings	9.540 Ratings

Comparison of Web Content Management features of Drupal and Joomla!
Feature	Drupal 5.0 68 Ratings	Joomla! 8.7 46 Ratings
Content taxonomy	10.063 Ratings	8.045 Ratings
SEO support	1.063 Ratings	9.645 Ratings
Bulk management	10.059 Ratings	9.243 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions	2.062 Ratings	7.146 Ratings
Community / comment management	2.062 Ratings	9.544 Ratings

User Ratings
	Drupal	Joomla
Likelihood to Recommend	2.0 (78 ratings)	9.5 (69 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	8.2 (18 ratings)	10.0 (28 ratings)
Usability	3.0 (10 ratings)	10.0 (8 ratings)
Availability	9.7 (3 ratings)	9.9 (2 ratings)
Performance	8.9 (2 ratings)	7.8 (2 ratings)
Support Rating	5.0 (4 ratings)	10.0 (4 ratings)
In-Person Training	8.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Online Training	6.0 (2 ratings)	8.0 (2 ratings)
Implementation Rating	5.1 (4 ratings)	8.7 (3 ratings)
Ease of integration	9.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Product Scalability	8.0 (2 ratings)	9.9 (3 ratings)