Choosing a right Content Management System for your website is really a tough job. There are a number of CMS with all their benefits and negatives. But this is said that the two platforms that stand out among the others that can really be compared :
WordPress vs Joomla.
Both platforms are popular for their easy handling, extensive customization opportunities, and active communities. While WordPress and
Joomla have their respective pros and cons, they can both be used to build modern, feature-filled sites. The basic difference between WordPress and Joomla is that Joomla is a portal- or community type site while WordPress is a blog. Both overlap each other in several areas and can be extended beyond their original purpose thanks to the use of plugins. You can find those plugins almost everywhere on the internet.
SIMILARITIES
- Both offer a selection of templates.
- Both have powerful developer APIs.
- Both extend core functionality with add-ons.
- Both are free and open-source.
- Both require installation, setup, and hosting.
- Both offer mobile responsive themes
DIFFERENCES
- Joomla! has out-of-the-box multilingual support.
- Mobile apps for admins.
- Joomla! has unit testing and system testing built in.
- Joomla! has support for MySQL, MS SQL and PostgreSQL. WordPress just supports MySQL.
Here we will discuss the comparisons between WordPress and Joomla
SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION
The true SEO capabilities of either platform aren’t readily apparent unless we take a look at the plugins or extensions available for the task. On WordPress’ side, we’ve got the incredibly popular
Yoast SEO plugin – it’s powerful, offers lots of features, and best of all anyone can get to grips with it in a matter of minutes.
Whereas Easy Frontend SEO (EFSEO) is best Joomla equivalent to Yoast. It enables you to carry out many of the same tasks – such as editing your meta information – directly on the front end of your site, and also includes a handy automatic mode for generating this data without your input.
SECURITY
Due to its popularity, WordPress has a giant target on its back when it comes to security vulnerabilities. Each WordPress install is unique thanks to the thousands of plugins (there’s a plugin for everything, from making charts to using pig latin) and themes available for the CMS.
On the other hand, Joomla ships with both an option to force connections over SSL and another one for 2FA. In addition, it offers its own set of security extensions, and its developers maintain a list of those extensions with known vulnerabilities.
CONTENT MANAGEMENT AND POTENTIAL
Both WordPress and Joomla are complex CMSs, enabling users to create and manage just about any type of website. Although WordPress is often associated with simple blogs, it’s also a great solution for landing pages and even more complex sites.
On the other hand, Joomla is renowned for its complexity – although it does offer some fantastic documentation. A site built with Joomla can evolve into anything it wants, but the learning curve is much steeper for users with no experience in web development.
In some ways, Joomla is more flexible than WordPress. It offers an incredibly customizable system that can take almost any shape you want, and it enables you to implement a lot of small customizations without relying on extensions. However, between WordPress vs Joomla there can only be one winner, and the crown must go to WordPress.
Both have their pros and cons but both are very essential. Also, whichever you choose, you can then get it easily installed on some affordable $3.95/month SiteGround hosting – which is one of the best hosting platforms on the market (survey says)
