Wordpress vs Joomla - which is better and why?

[eshber]

Just like the title says, which do you prefer? Wordpress or Joomla? And why?

 

[Quo_Vadiz]

wordpress , coz its easy to install
it got alot of cool seo/usefull plugins
easy to get great themes

 

[GrindcoreVlad]

Wordpress is very intuitive ant it has a lot of widgets so you can customize your site easily. But IMO it's mostly a blogging platform. I wouldn't use it for large websites especially for e commerce or others that involve a large number of categories.

I don't use Joomla anymore because I don't like this type of CMS. It's hard and heavy so to speak. But once you know how to manage it I guess it's a good one.

I prefer Drupal for large sites and Wordpress for blogs.

 

[kelvin.thechamp]

wordpress joomla both are good wordpress is more better bcoz of free plugins and easy to customize in other hand joomla having quite a learning curve.. go for wordpress its the best

 

[Kakashi3005]

wordpress joomla both are good wordpress is more better bcoz of free plugins and easy to customize in other hand joomla having quite a learning curve.. go for wordpress its the best

cant count how often i heard that you should use wordpress because its better than joomla ect. In my beginning timtes I really believed that and thought wordpress is somehow superior to joomla or other cms. I even believed the guys who told me that wordpress sites rank better oO.

But in fact its not. Its very easy to use but u cant do much with it. For different kind of projects you need different cms.

If you want to make a blog take wordpress. If you want to make a big content website joomla or typo3 can be good. If you want to have an ecomerce site use a good shopping cart cms. If you want to make a salesletter just use html.

Of course often u can modify the cms for using it for another purpose but most of the time it is better to use a cms which was built for your purpose and you just have to modifiy a bit.

So use the best cms for your purpose and learn it.

 

[yourmy]

Wordpress because Google Love it.

 

[eshber]

Mixed responses...any more?

 

[KlaAz0r]

my dad goes for joomla, I go for wordpress.

why wordpress? it has so much themes and plugins, I am not sure why go over so much creating your own when you can have them op and running in 1 minute on your WP

 

[Wyzgy239]

IMO Wordpress for blogs or small site cms, Jooma for large cms, Magento for ecommerce (although learning curve was steep for me).

 

[SOCOM]

I prefer WordPress. It's just really simple and the plugins are a deal breaker.

 

[ardley216]

i find joomla so incredibly annoying. they want you to pay for every plugin. wordpress is much nicer to work with.

 

[scripto]

WP is much easier to use. The WP community too is very helpful, and easy to learn your way around. Joomla is very robust but may be overkill depending on your needs.

 

[ShifterIO]

I prefere WP too. But for a costum made from scratch website I also use dreamweaver. It's a nice lil software!

 

[Blackberry_11]

I think wordpress is more easier, user friendly, lots of fresh and standard themes with many plugins and it set up quickly and can be listed in Google within 2 days. But Joomla is a little bit difficult to handle comparing to WP.