Also Joomla is user-friendly, although it is harder to use compared to WordPress. Joomla is an extremely versatile tool, suitable for the development of complex websites. It can support all types of databases and has a user management system that works very good, which is not so good in WordPress. Joomla is multi-lingual native and has many extensions included, so about that aspect is simpler than its alternative option. Indeed, WordPress makes at your disposal a lot of plugins to personalize your website, but many of them are not produced by official developers and maybe not updated, missing in quality and determining security breaches. In addition, if you want to develop a high-level website with WordPress, you need to download an additional extension for each feature, while Joomla has many of them included in the basic version. Joomla’s community is larger and more active compared to WordPress’s one and it provides a valid support to its users. On the other hand, also Joomla has some limits. Compared to WordPress has an elaborate code difficult to customize. The platform is heavier and consequently not so fast, as well as it is less intuitive and better for more expert people. There are fewer templates available and they are not so good graphically, because companies that produce them prefer to develop themes for WordPress. In terms of quality, Joomla ensures professional plugins, always updated and operating.
To conclude, as we said at the beginning, there’s no a better or worse CMS, but everything depends on your website requirements. In short, we can say that WordPress is ideal for blogs and beginners, because is easier to use and very fast. For more complex projects Joomla can be better, a versatile and modular platform which needs some additional skill to make good use of its potential.
