Which one is good Joomla or Wordpress for community site

[sachi041]

Hi friends Which one is good for starting a community website Joomla or Wordpress ?

I am noob for joomla . I have experience with wordpress. Need your valuable suggestion.

Thanks in adv

 

[mingu]

joomla has its own features but its not so much friendly with SEO you need to implement few tricks.. similarly wordpress has the prob of security.. if u wish to continue with joomla then go ahead.. but have extensive reading about it before starting.

 

[tnhomestead]

Both will work fine. Both need to have extra security added, so go with the one you feel most comfortable with.

 

[iglow]

for community id go for joomla, but harder to learn. or even dolphin.

 

[ExpressFans]

Why not simply go with vBulletine? The price is very reasonable and the functionality is unmatched!

 

[dulkemot]

joomla very profesional for bussiness, but not for communiti (in my opinion)
i thinks vbulletin forum is best
or you can also use wordpress for forums with plugin (search in google)

 

[SysFailure0x5a]

Look into buddypress. It's a suite of plugins that turns WordPress into a community.

 

[sachi041]

Thank you guys ! i will read joomla 1st and will start

 

[WebDev]

SEO Toaster is the one you want

I was going to use it myself, but the themes are not complete like WordPress - you get a template where you manually add your graphics, etc. - if you can live with that, then check it out

 

[xsubodh]

certainly Joomla and Jomsocial extension

 

[arifulshuvo]

for a community site i had go for wp .(from my side)

 

[blackhit]

Moved to the Lounge...

 

[HerpDerpSlerp]

You want to avoid a forum at all costs as the CTR is less than 1%. You want to build a really juicy site and use social plugins as your discussion board

 

[sachi041]

thanks for the suggestion! i will checkout

You want to avoid a forum at all costs as the CTR is less than 1%. You want to build a really juicy site and use social plugins as your discussion board

 

[herefornow]

Go for Drupal , joking , I d rather go with Wordpress if you have no experience with Joomla, it s a bit more difficult to handle, add some security plug in to your wordpress like secure_wp or something like that .

 

[Trident50]

I built a professional healthcare community using Joomla - with the Jomsocial extension. Joomla also has the Community Builder ext. - I tried both and went with Jomsocial. WP has Buddypress, which is pretty good. I just switched my community from Joomla to WP using Buddypress. All the bells and whistles that I paid for on the Joomla site - nobody in the community used them. They just wanted the basics - messaging, forums, connections, and the ability to post.

I had heard that Joomla wasn't SEO friendly - but I didn't have any issues...with 1800 pages ranked and 2500 members visiting a few times a month my ranking for any keywords in my articles was usually in the top 10. But I was very niche and had the whole industry on a mailing list

The plugins for Wordpress are more extensive and cheaper - most are free - whereas many of the good Joomla extensions can get pricey.

 

[sachi041]

Thank you friends for all your sugestion. I started community site using wordpress+buddypress . Still its in development phase. Will update once its done