Joomla and WordPress are two of the most well-known Content Management Systems (CMS) on the globe. Both are great CMS systems; however, which system is best for your business? Let us compare and contrast the business benefits of using Joomla over WordPress.
Joomla Benefits
According to Gev Balyan, the owner of Bang2Joom, a Joomla template developer, “it is a more robust platform geared for larger companies who need features like memberships, ecommerce options, blogging, multi-user roles, etc.”
Additionally, Joomla can become a portal, a great option for businesses looking to create a community. With all of the forums, news, and other similar features Joomla can easily help a site owner create whatever type of community they want. Unlike WordPress, all these features are already included in the software out of the box.
Finally, Joomla has a great navigational component to the site. Since the platform helps larger sites, the developers have spent more time on creating an easy navigation system compared to WordPress since the majority of WordPress users run small sites without the need for complex navigation.
WordPress Benefits
WordPress is easier to learn. Using the WordPress Dashboard is a very streamlined process and new website 
owners can pick it up quickly. Since WordPress is for bloggers, Automattic (developers of WordPress.org) shortened the learning curve for that specific use case.
WordPress has a larger community, which is great for business owners who need developers to help them fix their websites. The ratio of developer who specialize in WordPress per the software’s user is also higher than Joomla’s.
Joomla Cons
Joomla does have a steeper learning curve than WordPress. A large part of the reason for this is that Joomla is a more robust platform. Naturally, with all the features included it takes longer to learn how to use the site.
Additionally, Joomla occasionally loads slower than WordPress, which can affect a site’s Google ranking.
WordPress Cons
Since 14% of the now runs on WordPress websites, more hackers are focusing on breaking into WordPress compared to other platforms.
WordPress is more reliant on third party developers. I personally know a ton of good WordPress developers. They are great! They update their plugins with every core update, constantly tweak the software for enhanced performance, and create clean code from the start. Then you have the developers who just want to do a quick job, and do not look at the long-term effects their work has.
It can also be hard to identify which plugin is causing havoc in your WordPress install, forcing you to pull out all of your plugins just to find out that your new plugin (or an old one that has not been updated for a while) is the culprit.
Which CMS Do You Prefer?
So, which CMS do you prefer? Do you feel Joomla is better? Or WordPress? Why are you in favor of Joomla or WordPress? Tell us in the comments.
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But I prefer wordpress, because it was the first cms I used and this is the best in the world.
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I love WordPress because of what you said in your WordPress benefits paragraph. It is easier. It is less complicated than other CMS and you don’t have to know code like some site builders. One of the things I didn’t know was that Joomla runs slower than WordPress and I was told speed really matters. Great read and confirmation that I am perfectly fine with WordPress.
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Hi Fritz,
WordPress is by far the most popular for good reason. I know SEOs who say Joomla is almost impossible to SEO. Hopefully for those who use it there are some SEOs who figured out how – IF it can be done at all.
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i just want to say thanks i am going to make website on jamola but after having review about wordpress and jamoola i have decide to make website on wordpress that will be better and more comfortable for me thanks for sharing this great post
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This is great and so helpful content, and I think that wordpress the best CMS for blogs in the world at this time, because it has wide range of themes and plugins, and we can easily make a stylish blog in wordpress with the help of Free themes and plugins.
WordPress is an online, open source website creation tool written in PHP.
But in non-geek speak, it’s probably the easiest and most powerful blogging and website content management system (or CMS) in existence today.
I would like WordPress blogs over Joomla, so the reason why is its simplicity to use. Blogger features number of useful plugins which will make your undertaking quite easy even if you’ve not at all knowledge of written.
WordPress is a free open source blogging tool and a content management system based on php.Joomla is a award wining content management system.
Thank for the sharing this post.
I use wordpress because WordPress is a free open source blogging tool and a content management sytem(CMS) based on PHP and MySQL.Thanks for the sharing this post .
I am a user of wordpress and magento..do’not know much about joomla.Still thanks for your post…It’ll help me to understand joomla it seems..
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I prefer Joomla mainly because i think there is certainly additional choices, although Joomla has one particular negative aspect, which i don\’t like knowning that are usually quantity of files and also websites: ) Along with sure, WordPress will be additional frend to WEB OPTIMIZATION as compared to Joomla.
i have used jomla once and i found it very difficult to use for me. whereas wordpress is very very easy. and for any purpose you have a plugin for it to solve your problem.
I have also use wordpress but dont know about joomla service. joomla is looking good and think to use joomla.
I always love to use WordPress because its search engine friendly and easy to use and also there are so many plugin available and for this anyone can easily use wordpress to get good business benefits. But i also like Joomla because it has also some other benefits.
wordpress is better than Joomla ,specially with plugins to add a more comfortable touch to your page
Hmm, i forgot to add that joomla is a bit heavy when compared to wordpress! If i cut down the plugins, wordpress is faster…
I just took over a clients site that uses Joomla and I find it extremely difficult to learn. Even tutorial videos online or their support forums aren’t helpful. Plus I find the dashboard awful in terms of user experience.
WordPress was much easier to learn at the begning.
Joomla is one platform I’ve never tried before. With those amazing features WordPress offers, I don’t think I can just do away with them.
hi ,
Thanks for sharing the differences between JOOMLA and WORD-PRESS . But i am a great fan of WordPress because its very easy to operate (according to me , i don’t know what other says ) . Also editing of WordPress is also very easy and moreover SEO friendly 🙂
I haven’t use Joomla for my business yet. I like wordpress because simple to use, good for seo and very easy to install.
I have use both! my best choice is wordpress, its very easy to use unlike joomla
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Its a matter of personal choice, i would say. Some may feel good with joomla and others wordpress. But ya, with my own personal experience, i would vote for wordpress 🙂
WordPress for me, but Joomla looks pretty good as well.
I prefer wordpress simply because it was the first cms I used. I like the enornous extrensions and plugins.
hi thanks for this article these were some good views between joomla and wordpress
I would say Joomla has great features and modulated while WordPress is google friendly. Both of them have different ways
I prefer Joomla simply because i think there is more possibilities, but Joomla has one drawback, which I do not like and that are number of files and directories:) And yes, WordPress is more frend to SEO than Joomla.