Joomla! vs. WordPress

Joomla!

286 Reviews and Ratings

WordPress

3,255 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
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
WordPress	Score8.6 out of 10	N/A	Wordpress is an open-source publishing platform popular with bloggers, and a content management system, known for its simplicity and modifiability. Websites may host their own blogging communities, controlling and moderating content from a single dashboard.	$3 per month 6 GB storage

Pricing

Joomla

WordPress

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Personal: $4
per month 6 GB storage
Premium: $8
per month 13 GB storage
Business: $25
per month 50 GB storage
Commerce: $45
per month 50 GB storage
Enterprise: Contact for pricing

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

No setup fee

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Pricing for Business and Commerce plans vary on number of GB.

Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Joomla	WordPress
Considered Both Products	The Joomla Project Verified User Chose Joomla Joomla! fits me better because it is flexible and simple enough to understand. WordPress is straightforward, but it can't handle bigger websites as efficiently. Drupal is powerful, but it can be more challenging to learn. Joomla! Offers a suitable mix of options that meet my … Incentivized Helpful? Jeff Montgomery CTO in Manufacturing at Animal Necessity (Veterinary, 11-50 employees) Chose Joomla 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Adrian Romero Brand designer in Marketing at Berlin Grey (Design, 1-10 employees) Chose Joomla Simpler and easy to visually understand elements and tools. We don't need to do any fancy coding or use too many plugins. çompared with WordPress and Webflow, we believe Joomla! has a more accurate and easy interface that allows the user to finish tasks in less time than the … Incentivized Helpful? Fernanda Ministerio Especialista de Desenvolvimento Industrial in Information Technology at SENAI-DN (Non-profit Organization Management, 10,001+ employees) Chose Joomla We tested other platforms like WordPress, Magento and some local CMS. But Joomla offered us better resources for generating content. Joomla is a CMS suitable for many types of projects, especially if you have several people editing content at the same time. Incentivized Helpful? Nuno Reis CIO (Chief Information Officer) in Information Technology at Nuno Cubal Reis (Information Technology & Services, 1-10 employees) Chose Joomla As a user, it is more than OK for those standard daily operations like publishing and editing or comment management. As a developer, I have a very different perspective. Joomla! is not my favorite platform. Only ready-to-use tools like Wix can be less friendly than having to … Incentivized Helpful? Lonela Marinela Senior Product UX/UI Designer-Developer in Product Management at Harvest Software Solutions, LLC (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Joomla There are many themes and other design assets for Joomla! we can use from paid and free libraries throughout the internet. WordPress on the other hand is also very good and useful, comparatively Joomla! offered more features and at a better price. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Joomla I like Joomla! a lot more than WordPress, as I find this constrictive in the way that they have made it a one size fits all CMS. I also find that their vulnerabilities are far bigger than Joomla's. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Joomla Joomla is more of a developer's CMS. It is much more customizable than WordPress. Incentivized Helpful? Vinny Hebert Owner at Web Help U.S. (Internet, 1-10 employees) Chose Joomla Part of Joomla core, which is what comes with Joomla when you install it, is it's Access Control Lists. It allows you to not only control which users can access what, but allows you to create custom groups and have unique access per group. WordPress can't do that without a … 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 WordPress is probably the most popular CMS, followed by Joomla! For me, I find Joomla! much more intuitive. Both use themes and can provide excellent results, however I prefer Joomla! 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? Brittney Collier Marketing Assistant in Marketing at ASTM International (Non-Profit Organization Management, 201-500 employees) Chose Joomla I have selected Joomla when I needed an easy content management platform for a team of beginners. It's not as easy to customize or optimize like WordPress or Wix sites, but it's a great introduction until you are ready for the more advanced features offered by these alternative … 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? Rahul Kumar Singh Software Developer in Information Technology at OATI (Computer Software, 501-1000 employees) Chose Joomla Joomla! is definitely way better than Blogger but if one has to compare it with WordPress then this [somewhat] opinion based but I personally like WordPress over Joomla! Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Joomla Comparing to other Platform handling user management is easy with Joomla. various extensions really helpful for core level applicatiion Incentivized Helpful? Abdul Rahuman Cloud engineer in Engineering at BrainCert (E-Learning, 11-50 employees) Chose Joomla low cost, easily accessible, very economical. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Joomla I don't believe Joomla compares to any other programs I have used. There are similar products, but none that are quite as easy. Incentivized Helpful? Sanjeev Raghuwanshi Joomla Developer in Professional Services at JoomTech Solutions (Information Technology & Services, 1-10 employees) Chose Joomla At the starting of my career, I got Joomla! to work on, SO I learned about Joomla!. Initially, it was tough to learn component development but after [learning] something, I like to do it. Incentivized Helpful? 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? Sergey Gvozdetskiy Sales Manager in Sales at Cleveroad (Computer Software, 51-200 employees) Chose Joomla Joomla! provides a good starting point with all templates, both free and paid. Incentivized Helpful? Josh Randall Co-Owner, Operations & Marketing Manager in Information Technology at 127 Yard Sale (Hospitality, 1-10 employees) Chose Joomla We selected Joomla because of the available extensions met are needs at the time. Incentivized Helpful? Ricardo Melo Network Analyst 1 in Information Technology at Aloo Telecom (Telecommunications, 201-500 employees) Chose Joomla Joomla has a more general and wide use, more documentation, forums and community that develops many templates and extensions for almost all purposes. It has a great web-based administration environment and, with the correct permissions setting, it can be prepared for a regular … Incentivized Helpful?	Automattic Maria Clara Daly Director of Interactive Strategy in Marketing at Stratacomm (Marketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees) Chose WordPress There are no other site builders/platforms that stand up to the ease and versatility (heavy custom coding and customizations included) as Wordpress. Drupal is clunky and outdated, as is Joomla, and while Wix or Squarespace may be sufficient for someone with very low web needs, … Incentivized 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 WordPress WordPress is easier to learn and implement. It isn’t as robust as Drupal and Joomla out of the box, but with plugins and themes you can accomplish most things that these other CMS can do. Although WordPress can get bulky as you add more functionality, in comparison it’s easier … Incentivized Helpful? Lisa Keyser Owner \| Principal at LMK Web Design & Consulting (Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees) Chose WordPress We only build and support websites on WordPress and Joomla!. In general, WordPress is a good fit for our smaller clients who want to handle all of the maintenance and updates themselves. Our clients with larger and more complex content needs, or more sophisticated … Incentivized Helpful? Kunal Verma Software Engineer Intern in Research & Development at UBC (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose WordPress WordPress is more popular and has more default templates for website creation. Moreover, it is easy to use. The availability of large communities makes it easier to fix any encountered bug or problem during the development process. Apart from this, WordPress is open source and … Incentivized Helpful? Jonathan Rockett Founder, Business Development in Marketing at Sizzling Digital (Marketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees) Chose WordPress While still being relatively user-friendly (or at least pretty easy to learn the basics), WordPress blows the other hosted, 'out of the box' platforms like Wix and Squarespace out of the water. They simply can't compete when it comes to customizability, especially back-end and … Incentivized Helpful? Michael Santangelo Junior Network Administrator in Information Technology at School District of the Chathams (Education Management, 51-200 employees) Chose WordPress Wix was considered but was then rejected once we realized we could not self-host. WordPress allows self-hosting, while Wix does not. Joomla was considered but required much more technical experience on behalf of the people who would be posting content. WordPress is much easier … Incentivized Helpful? Ben Beck Director of Marketing in Marketing at Kuali, Inc. (Computer Software, 51-200 employees) Chose WordPress The two other open source tools, Joomla! and Drupal, were at one time comparable to WordPress but have since been left behind as WP has more developers working on it. Wix, Weebly, and Squarespace are all great platforms for small companies who don't want to spend any attention … Incentivized Helpful? François Lavallée president in Human Resources at Aliter Concept (Education Management, 1-10 employees) Chose WordPress I use a lot of business software. Some I use for a short while. Some I never stop using. WordPress has been part of my business life for 15 years and has never disappointed me. It has always improved and I never felt the "upgrade" were a downgrade... this is one of the few … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose WordPress Wordpress is an open source, and it will always come with a set of drawbacks but also benefits. We see a major drawback in the hosting, which can get complex, and it becomes hard to have a fully functioning and fast site running. Other solutions are often SaaS, which handles … Incentivized Helpful? Jeff Montgomery CTO in Manufacturing at Animal Necessity (Veterinary, 11-50 employees) Chose WordPress We've tried a decent variety of other platforms throughout the years, and all-in-all we still consistently use WordPress for all kinds of business solutions. We have found while others excel in specific areas, WordPress excels in almost every area pound for pound. We highly … Incentivized Helpful? Shikher Goyal SEO Alanyst in Marketing at Coalition technologies (Marketing & Advertising, 201-500 employees) Chose WordPress WordPress relatively easy to use, especially for beginners, with an intuitive UI. WordPress has a massive user base, extensive plugin library, and support forums, making it easier to find solutions to problems or get assistance, if we stuck anywhere during the setup of website. … Incentivized Helpful? Collins Sarkodieh Aning Senior Web Developer in Information Technology at Ghadverts.com (Marketing & Advertising, 1-10 employees) Chose WordPress I used Wix and Squarespace for a few projects then I found WordPress, as a developer with programming background I needed the flexibility of adding a touch of code on my website be Wix did not allow me or give me that flexibility. WordPress gave me the room for customization … Incentivized Helpful? Tom Mulhern Freelance Web and Graphic Designer in Marketing at Boombox Creative (Media Production, 1-10 employees) Chose WordPress WordPress is by far the best website CMS available on the market. It is an open-source free solution with endless possibilities of websites that you can build. You don't need to be a developer to build a site, but there are options to use code to take your website to the next … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose WordPress WordPress has the largest community of users, selection of plugins and themes, and the best third party support on the market. It's tempting to go with something that is less customizable and therefore requires less maintenance, but if you desire flexibility, WordPress is a good … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose WordPress WordPress is free and so easy to use. I would recommend it over any competitor except for e-commerce. For an e-commerce website in most cases, I would recommend Shopify because of their shopping cart and processing speed. Shopify does charge monthly, as opposed to using … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose WordPress WordPress has a larger market share and it is friendly and widely used. Across organizations, it shows ease of use, ability to integrate, multiple paths for creating sites, designs, and much more. For volunteer based organizations, WordPress is ideal and provides a path to … Incentivized Helpful? Abid Sheikh Manager Operations at Sheikh IT Solutions (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose WordPress WordPress has so many incredible features, it allows users to build a professional website and users can customize the themes even from the front-end and also from the code editor. WordPress plugins are more professional and useful if we compare them with other content … Incentivized Helpful? Shion Song Art Director & Web Developer in Marketing at shion.ca (Marketing & Advertising, 1-10 employees) Chose WordPress The almost unlimited functionality provided in WordPress is versatile and its ability to self host your own installation makes it less likely to get locked into a service provider. For example, other CMS like Wix and those provided by many hosting companies effectively lock you … Incentivized Helpful? Taylor Morgan Web Designer / Developer II in Professional Services at London Computer Systems (Computer Software, 201-500 employees) Chose WordPress WordPress is perhaps the best developed and most active community simply for its sheer size. It is extendable and has plentiful existing extensions. Incentivized Helpful? Diego Pacheco Diego Pacheco in Information Technology at Aloo Telecom (Telecommunications, 51-200 employees) Chose WordPress We chose WordPress because our interest at the moment is geared towards an institutional presentation and opening a new channel of communication with the client, and WordPress has one of these premises as its native. Speaking on the communication channel, we created a page with … Incentivized Helpful? Aaron Case Lead Software Developer in Information Technology at RIDE Marketing (Marketing & Advertising, 11-50 employees) Chose WordPress WordPress support and breadth of use is unmatched. Incentivized Helpful? Dinesh Selvachandra Business Process Analyst in Information Technology at Jadon Software Solutions (Computer Software, 51-200 employees) Chose WordPress Easy to configure and user community support is great. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose WordPress While all these three products have special functions on their own, WordPress has the ability to expand itself to be used in place of any of them. The major advantage with WordPress is the flexibility of creating a simple, low-maintenance, low resource-consuming website as well … Incentivized Helpful? Dave Moll Digital Marketing Manager in Marketing at Access Marketing Company (Marketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees) Chose WordPress We made an agency decision many years ago to get on the Wordpress train and stay on it. We didn't want to try and manage multiple web platforms. At the time, Wordpress wasn't the most developer-friendly choice but it was starting to inch ahead in popularity. So we selected … Incentivized Helpful? Richard Molina Java Software Developer in Professional Services at SOAINT (Internet, 501-1000 employees) Chose WordPress I prefer WordPress because it has a larger community of users that support it. Incentivized Helpful?
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Features

Joomla

WordPress

Comparison of Security features of Joomla! and WordPress
Feature	Joomla! 9.6 45 Ratings	WordPress 8.7 131 Ratings
Role-based user permissions	9.645 Ratings	8.7131 Ratings

Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Joomla! and WordPress
Feature	Joomla! 7.8 42 Ratings	WordPress 8.7 107 Ratings
API	6.140 Ratings	8.997 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language	9.541 Ratings	8.481 Ratings

Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Joomla! and WordPress
Feature	Joomla! 9.0 48 Ratings	WordPress 8.3 137 Ratings
WYSIWYG editor	9.547 Ratings	8.7124 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness	9.745 Ratings	7.0123 Ratings
Admin section	10.044 Ratings	8.7135 Ratings
Page templates	6.146 Ratings	9.0132 Ratings
Library of website themes	8.144 Ratings	6.5134 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design	9.644 Ratings	9.0133 Ratings
Publishing workflow	9.544 Ratings	8.7128 Ratings
Form generator	9.540 Ratings	9.0106 Ratings

Comparison of Web Content Management features of Joomla! and WordPress
Feature	Joomla! 8.7 46 Ratings	WordPress 8.6 135 Ratings
Content taxonomy	8.045 Ratings	8.9115 Ratings
SEO support	9.645 Ratings	8.7121 Ratings
Bulk management	9.243 Ratings	7.4102 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions	7.146 Ratings	8.7124 Ratings
Community / comment management	9.544 Ratings	9.2124 Ratings

User Ratings
	Joomla	WordPress
Likelihood to Recommend	9.5 (69 ratings)	8.4 (173 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (28 ratings)	10.0 (37 ratings)
Usability	10.0 (8 ratings)	8.7 (20 ratings)
Availability	9.9 (2 ratings)	9.5 (3 ratings)
Performance	7.8 (2 ratings)	8.6 (2 ratings)
Support Rating	10.0 (4 ratings)	10.0 (11 ratings)
In-Person Training	- (0 ratings)	7.0 (1 ratings)
Online Training	8.0 (2 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Implementation Rating	8.7 (3 ratings)	9.0 (10 ratings)
Configurability	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Ease of integration	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (1 ratings)
Product Scalability	9.9 (3 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)