Joomla

Score8.3 out of 10

286 Reviews and Ratings

What is Joomla?

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.

Categories & Use Cases

Content Management

Admin section
The admin page is easy to navigate and use.
Category average: 7.9
Code quality / cleanliness
Code generated by WYSIWYG editor is clean and validates according to W3C standards.
Category average: 8.3
Role-based user permissions
Permissions to perform actions or access or modify data are assigned to roles, which are then assigned to users, reducing complexity of administration.
Category average: 8

Availability / breadth of extensions
There is a broad library of extensions, plug-ins, modules or add-ons that allow users to easily customize their websites without building custom code.
Category average: 6.9
API
An API (application programming interface) provides a standard programming interface for connecting third-party systems to the software for data creation, access, updating and/or deletion.
Category average: 8
Page templates
The CMS has standard webpage templates or types of web pages (e.g. homepage, article page, interior page, blog page, etc.); users can also build custom templates.
Category average: 7.9

#1 most frequent

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

5.6%

14,155 installations of 254,733

#2 most frequent

Manufacturing

2.8%

7,046 installations of 254,733

#3 most frequent

Other Services (except Public Administration)

2.4%

6,143 installations of 254,733

Dustin Day View profile

Director of UX development, social media and SEO/SEM in Marketing at DFT (a number of local companies under one umbrella) (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Joomla! is a great CMS, we use it if we need a site builder that is more complicated than what a Wordpress site will be used for but not quite as complicated as a Drupal site. Joomla! is easily updated, but can be a more complex build than Wordpress or some other cookie cutter page builders.

Pros

Content management system
Website development
Custom site development

Cons

Being more intuitive
Having a more robust community
Design updates could be easier

Return on Investment

Joomla! has allowed us to have another amazing asset when building sites
The ROI of Joomla! is great considering it’s starting cost
The customers we’ve built Joomla! sites with have been happy

Usability

Alternatives Considered

WordPress, Drupal and Concrete CMS

Other Software Used

WordPress, Adobe After Effects, Contentpace

Abdul Rahuman

Cloud engineer in Engineering at BrainCert (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Joomla! is the best content management system (CMS), which helps to manage all our platforms' backends in one place. We also have a virtual classroom API key, where we can schedule a class in Joomla! using plugins

Pros

best administration software that handles everything
helps to sell our API products as they can use it in Joomla!
manage all our progress, easy to setup and use

Cons

Joomla! is quite down in their UI/UX, however we can modify by our own style
they can improve and implement more features
can be improve the security side

Return on Investment

worth of money
no negative impacts still now
successfully growing along with Joomla!

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Moodle and WordPress

Other Software Used

WordPress, Upbase, Bigin by Zoho CRM

Verified User

Employee in Marketing (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We utilize Joomla! for ease of creating and managing our website internally. We appreciated that Joomla! enabled us to keep our content current and be able to publish what we needed without requiring technical skills. The main issues that Joomla! Helped minimize were the simplicity of updates on the website, the time spent on updates, and the need for technical support. Our use case of Joomla! consists of posting our news, managing our events, and sharing information with our audience. Joomla! covers much of our website management needs and helps us keep organized and connected to our users.

Pros

Helping us easily update website content.
Build forms, and manage user access.
Adding extra features with extensions.

Cons

Difficult for beginners to learn.
Complex to use some features.
Limited options for easy design customization.

Return on Investment

Saved time on website updates.
Lowered costs by reducing the need for extra developers.
Increased customer engagement and sales.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

WordPress

Other Software Used

Labrika, Elfsight, PhantomBuster, Apollo.io

Verified User

Representative in Sales (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Joomla! as a user management and API plugin for our Virtual classroom. It is also used as the administrator login and integrates well with third-party tools, making them easy to integrate. The implementation process is simple and easy. It supports users all over the world. Easy to check our client details and share the emails in bulk. Admin can create separate groups and manage them.

Pros

It supports third party tools
User Management that allows the admin to create and manage users
It is easy to set up groups and manage the users
Emails can be share in bulk and private message to the users

Cons

It can offer native integration
Improvements on the updates
Drag and drop is missing

Return on Investment

We were able to launch systerm faster which made our work more efficient.
Improve support and onboarding new customers.
It saves time and make to grow faster

Usability

Verified User

Team Lead in Engineering (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Using Joomla! as CMS website toolI have been using Joomla for the User management and providing role based access for users.Running live classes with API plugins.

Pros

Can use as CMS website
Install plugins and extensions easily
Build varous application with Joomla

Cons

Need to improve stability
Website creation is not simple as wordpress
hard tp troubleshoot the compatabilities

Return on Investment

User Management is really cool and easy
have a wide range of extensions
Updating the version is bit difficult
Hard to troubleshoot and debug the code

Usability

Alternatives Considered

WordPress and Moodle

Other Software Used

Upbase, Trackabi, Built for Teams, Sublime Text, Cloudflare

Drupal

Plone

Magnolia (V4.5 and prior versions)

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Top Performing Features

Admin section

Code quality / cleanliness

Role-based user permissions

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Availability / breadth of extensions

API

Page templates

Most Frequent Users

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

Manufacturing

Other Services (except Public Administration)

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