Wordpress vs Joombla

[metalshark]

Hey guys,

I've been fooling around with Wordpress themes lately for my sites, but I had a web developer tell me that Joombla was WP on roids and much more customizable.



Can anyone confirm this or have any input? Thanks

 

[tsrgroup]

wordpress is better than joombla..

 

[Mahzkrieg]

btw, it's "Joomla".

Wordpress is much better than Joomla. It's more intuitive, better coded, with a better and larger development community.

Can't imagine any problem when I'd pick Joomla over Wordpress, especially for non-blog applications like rollling my own CMS.

 

[-God-]

<thread>
<post>WP is teh bezt</post>
<post>Yea, WP is teh bezt loozahz</post>
<post>but iz u ghuyz eva tryd jamoola?</post>
<post>WP iz teh bezt</post>
<post>haz u iz playz wiv teh jamoola?</post>
<post>WP iz teh bezd</post>
<post>WP does evreethang</post>
<post>Jamoola iz stoopid</post>
<post>lololololol jamoola iz loozahvill /thread</post>
<post>hav u tryd jamahoola?</post>
<post>WP duz seo</post>
<post>Jamula is CMS, WP iz blog</post>
<post>WP duz seo</post>
<post>googel likez teh WP coz it duz seo</post>
<post>has anyone uzd jamoola?</post>
<post>WP duz seo</post>
<post>yeah, WP duz seo! FTWFTW</post>
<post>seo iz gud on wp /thread</post>
<post>haz u dun jamoola?</post>
<post>No, but WP duz seo and teh googelz</post>
<post>ye, WP duz teh googlez seo</post>
<post>WP iz usd easiurh and seo is googled</post>
<post>I iz neva usd teh jmola, but it iz wak holmiezzz, wp ftwftw</post>
<post>Oh, can't we have another PC vs Mac "debate"? Please?! /n/n

They both have different and the same uses. It's not one or the other it's both. Stop being fucking fucktards and try them both then make a decision./n/n

Joomla is great for big sites that require good organisation and a professional look along with the control Joomla provides with it's modules and membership system./n/n

Wordpress is better for smaller sites, blogs and for those that don't understand and/or can't use Joomla. Jamoola has more features and capabilities out of the box than wordpress. /n/n

Pick your weapon of choice, but fucking learn them both and try them both before acting like a knowledge-less e-tard by proclaiming one better without actually knowing why.</post>
<post>^^LMAO WP is got teh plugins and google seo</post>
<post>yeah, idjut wp iz go teh seo</post>
<post>lol jomla, jomla lol</post>
<post>wp duz more than jumla n duz seo</post>
<post>googel luvz teh wp</post>
<post>*Fucking give up facepalm*</post>
</thread>

 

[metalshark]

**Joomla'

Looks like I won't waste my time dicking around with it. thx

 

[kingscotty38]

wordpress can't go wrong, joomla is too holey, a high % of joomla sites get hacked when I was using it. Not sure if they've fixed it up, but it was an issue when I was using it a year ago.

 

[maxpollen]

Wordpress is really better than Joomla. i have tried it and it really works well.

 

[pileofcrap]

I have to agree with many of the people here. Joomla is buggy, real buggy. You cannot go wrong with Wordpress. WP is also, imo, much more user-friendly. I've been doing this internet crap for 10 years and Joomla even confuses me at times.

 

[tomsmith2010]

Sure, Wordpress is far the best, the wordpress is very simple and very easy. Worpress is best for website building. Because they provides enhanced dashbard for content managing and theme designing. We know now a days all kinds of websites are used content management system. Thats why wordpress is best platform for users!!

 

[Izaya]

Wordpress, its simple, fast and has ALOT of great plugins.

 

[imkazu]

go with wordpress for general info/content type site
use joomla/drupal if you want to implement a hierarchy of user access levels

 

[brizzad]

I don't understand why everyone generally says "wordpress for small sites / content based sites" or "joomla for larger sites / high membership sites"

Honestly, with just how fully customizable Wordpress is, you can create a site or service as good as or better than any other Joomla site. Not to mention it takes all of 2 minutes to install wordpress, plugins and themes have a simple 1 or 2 click install process, and Wordpress doesn't have a history of hacking/security issues even a fraction of the size of Joomla's poor past.

 

[Kysersoze]

Wordpress all the way. I'm also not sure why some people think Joomla is better than Wordpress for "big sites" or that it looks more professional. Wordpress is easily adaptable to any application now a days. You also have a huge community of people who create plugins and application for WP sites.

The learning curve with Joomla is also larger. Wordpress all the way especially for a newbie.

 

[-God-]

The fact is this thread is filled with people who don't know Joomla plain and simple. I'm sorry, Joomla is streets ahead of Wordpress, if you don't see that, then you simply don't use Joomla properly or at all.

They both have there uses and they can both be used for similar things. Wordpress is simpler and easier than Joomla, but Joomla does everything Wordpress does and countless things Wordpress can't do even with some "plugins."

It's not the whole WP is better than Joomla that gets on my tits, it's the obvious fact that people chime in without any knowledge of Joomla, but say things they might have heard somewhere, like it's fact.

Use them both ffs...

Mac vs PC
PHP vs ASP
cPanel vs Plesk
virtuozzo vs openvz
XBox vs PS3
PostgreSQL vs MySQL

/ thread

 

[metalshark]

Whoa...didn't notice this thread was still alive.

I'm trying both out as we speak - which I guess I should have done in the first place.

 

[kdr4t]

wordpress has a shorter learning curve, with the same features and benefits of joomla

 

[johnhodges80]

using wordpress as CMS is good. it is really cheap and easy to use.

 

[Vcize]

Wordpress, Joomla, and Drupal pretty much go in that order for ease of use, what they're best for, and how powerful they are.

Wordpress is the easiest to use, most intuitive, least powerful, and best choice for simple sites the likes of which you'll typically find around a place like this (SEO/marketing oriented forum).

Drupal is the most difficult to use, least intuitive, but also the most powerful if you're a programmer.

Joomla falls in the middle.

If you're asking this question, I'd say there's a 95% chance that what you want to do is simple enough that you're best sticking with wordpress. If you use joomla for something simple, you're just adding a lot of unnecessary complexity for a less optimized, less intuitive version of the same thing. Also, Joomla has (by far) the highest percentage of commercial plugins of the three, whereas with the other two most plugins are free.

If you're looking to build a community site, like a social networking site or something that's ripe with user created content then yea, joomla is a MUCH better choice than wordpress. But if you're just looking to build a site that you can put some ads on or sell a digital product on or something like that, you'd be foolish to use joomla or drupal over wordpress.

Of my ~20 sites that use a CMS 1 is joomla, 1 is drupal, and the rest are all wordpress.

Wordpress is much better suited for sites that you want to get up quickly and spend the majority of your time doing SEO on (hence its popularity here). Joomla/Drupal are better suited for the kinds of sites that you're going to be spending the next several months developing before you go live with them.

I'm actually working on a detailed article comparing the three, and what their best uses are.