We always compare things before making purchase decision, same thing applies to our customers when it comes to build there websites.  Our customers always ask us question which CMS we should use to build our website eCommerce store and why ?  Some of them also asked us to give compression for popular CMS like WordPress Vs Joomla .

Those two CMS vary significantly in terms of features, capability, flexibility and ease of use. So we started listing advantages and disadvantages of each of these CMS solutions and come with below CMS comparison

 

WordPress: Advantages and Disadvantages

WordPress is best bloging solutions available and its worlds most popular CMS system with around 60% market share. WordPress is suitable for  Blog websites, simple corporate and magazine websites, small business. But now days Top publishing firms also started using WordPress to publish there using WordPress.com

Below, we take a look at some of the advantages and disadvantages of using WordPress:

Advantages of WordPress

  • WordPress is very user friendly and people with less technical knowledge or even for first-time bloggers can handle WordPress websites easily
  • WordPress is easy to customize and with the help of themes and little knowledge of HTML and CSS anyone can design nice looking websites for his business.
  • Massive user community and easy help available on forums.
  • WordPress supports multiple authors and its  crucial feature for any content publication.
  • WordPress has huge library of plugins,widgets and themes
  • WordPress has advantage  in SEO as being bloging platform there are many SEO plugins available which makes On-page SEO easy
  • WordPress can be made to do virtually anything –Blogs, Company websites, portfolio, e-commerce store, video site, news websites, etc.

 Disadvantages of WordPress

  • WordPress is often the target of hackers and number of websites hacked on WordPress is more then other CMS.
  • WordPress was originally designed as a blogging platform. So it need really large amount of resources to handle large amount of content.

 Recommended Use of WordPress

We would recommend WordPress for blog or as a regular website  that looks good and can accommodate multiple authors easily.

 

Joomla: Advantages and Disadvantages

Joomla is an open-source content management software forked from Mambo. It is one of the most popular CMS solutions in the world and boasts over 30m downloads to date. Joomla powers such noteworthy sites as Cloud.com, Linux.com, etc.

Advantages of Joomla

  • With latest versions Joomla it becomes easy to use.
  • Joomla has a strong developer community.
  • Jommla also has big  pluginextensions  library.
  • Joomla has multi-lingual capability built-in
  • Joomla was originally build as an enterprise-grade CMS which makes it  capable at handling a large volume of articles.

Disadvantages of Joomla

  • Joomla has a complicated structure and even seasoned web developers have to go through a learning curve before they master the layout system,
  • Less SEO options available
  • Importing articles from one site to another is not easy.

Recommended use

If you want to build a community or a network with a membership features, newsroom, forums, articles, input from external authors etc then always go for Joomla…We would recommend  Joomla for Government websites,Corporate website and magazine websites who needs a stable CMS for the long run.

We hope this article provided some insightful information over the two best CMS platforms that are performing hot in the market. Above information will help you choose a CMS that fits your requirements by  comparing the two top CMS platforms. Now its upto you to  decide upon the system which suits your purpose more accurately.

 

Still confused  ? contact our expert wordpress and joomla developers to know more.