Joomla
About Joomla
A content management system is software that keeps track of every piece of content on your Web site, much like your local public library keeps track of books and stores them. Content can be simple text, photos, music, video, documents, or just about anything you can think of. A major advantage of using a CMS is that it requires almost no technical skill or knowledge to manage. Since the CMS manages all your content, you don't have to.
What are some real world examples of what Joomla! can do?
Joomla is used all over the world to power Web sites of all shapes and sizes. For example:
Corporate Web sites or portals
Corporate intranets and extranets
Online magazines, newspapers, and publications
E-commerce and online reservations
Government applications
Small business Web sites
Non-profit and organizational Web sites
Community-based portals
School and church Web sites
Personal or family homepages
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- Industry: Online Media
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Ready out of the box
Reviewed on 2021/09/19
I love this. I've been using this since forever. I've seen Joomla evolve and I really love how...
I love this. I've been using this since forever. I've seen Joomla evolve and I really love how they have worked towards a solution that can still be the one of the bests CMS out there, if not, the best.
I'd like to see more integrations with Joomla as there are with Wordpress. Joomla lacks this integration but it is not a feature that puts it behind Wordpress, not at all.
This is the CMS I recommend to my clients.
Pros
Joomla is a complete CMS that has default features that work as promised without the need of external plugins. Unlike Wordpress, Joomla can be kept with a minimum of plugins and components reducing the risk of a security gap.
You can get really good plugins done by people who love what they do and most of them are even free and perform at top level.
Cons
There are some aspects I really don't like about Joomla and the first one is the access control ACL. It's pretty tricky and sometimes I've messed up a whole site just because I checked the wrong box and locked me out of my own development.
I do not use the templates as I find the modules positions messy and kind of boring to use, I always use YooTheme over Joomla as a template and this is magic in motion.
Joomla is pretty easy to explain to clients but there are some procedures that need to be explained several times, as the menu items, the aliases, modules, the redirections and some other stuff that could be even friendlier
Alternatives Considered
WordPressReasons for Switching to Joomla
Less plugins to install, more security- Industry: E-Learning
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
If you want a powerful portal this is the option...
Reviewed on 2022/07/14
Excellent experience in my projects. The power, scalability and stability of Joomla really allowed...
Excellent experience in my projects. The power, scalability and stability of Joomla really allowed me to create very professional portals and sites. If you have an idea in your mind of how you want your site to work, Joomla allows you to make it a reality in a very concrete way, due to the great features it has. There is also a very active community, and also a lot of documentation if you need it.
Pros
Scalability
Powerful
Good bookstores and active community
Trajectory, prestige and reliability
stable and secure
Allows larger and more complex projects
Cons
It requires a certain learning curve, but it is worth it
If you are not in a large-scale project, sometimes you could get a little lost among the many possibilities it offers in terms of the extensions it offers
Customization can be a bit hard if you don't have experience
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MoodleReasons for Choosing Joomla
I got quite frustrated doing some projects and found that I couldn't implement everything I wanted, and worse still, in some cases the site had instability and crashes with many plugins. I couldn't afford to focus or base a serious project on a platform that had these issuesSwitched From
DrupalReasons for Switching to Joomla
Drupal had a lot of instability, little customization for people with little design knowledge, and in general I felt that I was limited when it came to creating a site or portal according to my needs. On the other hand it was unnecessarily complex in some areas of the dashboard- Industry: Graphic Design
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10
Old style CMS
Reviewed on 2019/10/31
I have generally maintained Joomla solutions for clients who have had active site that were already...
I have generally maintained Joomla solutions for clients who have had active site that were already established. This was at the recommendation of whoever initially set up the site. I personally prefer other solutions that are similar but have less of a learning curve and are more straight forward to setup and maintain.
Pros
Joomla is an open-source PHP/MySQL based CMS. This lets it be very customizable and there are a lot of resources online through community support to get documentation and help with changes and such. It does have a lot of features and you can spend a lot of time figuring out how to manage Joomla.
Cons
It doe feel a bit clunky and not straight forward. Something as simple as creating a content page can be confusing at first glance. My experience with customizing templates was that it is more difficult than other competing CMS options, but as with many PHP-based solutions there is a good community to help if you get stuck if you ask the right questions.
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WordPress- Industry: Design
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Still best overall CMS
Reviewed on 2021/11/26
I have been using Joomla since the time it was a mambo CMS. I have created a large number of...
I have been using Joomla since the time it was a mambo CMS. I have created a large number of websites since then and what I can say with certainty is that Joomla is still a better CMS than other opensource solutions. Joomla CMS is a great tool for creating business websites and portals with lots of articles and content.
Most popular Joomla templates allow me to create module positions where I want. I can display the modules on the sub pages where I want.
To create a multilingual website I don’t have to install additional extensions if I don’t want to.
Thousands and thousands of great extensions, modules and templates are available to expand the capabilities of the CMS system.
Pros
I love being able to create a website without additional plug-in installations or extensions. Joomla core has built-in features and capabilities to make a simpler website.
I like better visibility and management of articles and categories in administration.
I like the ability to use multiple templates on one website.
I like the ability to, for almost everything, make an override via the menu.
And what I like most is that I have complete control over the website from start to finish.
Cons
What I don’t like the most is that the process of upgrading to a new version can be problematic for people who have no experience with Joomla. I am not thinking here of the update process but of the upgrade. Eg. from Joomla 3 to Joomla 4.
But the online community is great and always helps, and there are a number of instructions so everything can be solved even if you get stuck.
Alternatives Considered
WordPressReasons for Switching to Joomla
Wordpress is the most popular CMS and clients sometimes ask for a website to be created in Wordpress. Wordpress is also a good CMS, but it took me a long time to accept that I can't create a website without 10-15 extra plugins.- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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Joomla my favourite CMS to use
Reviewed on 2021/07/24
Overall I love Joomla, been using it for over 10 years I think it version 1.3 or 1.4 I started off...
Overall I love Joomla, been using it for over 10 years I think it version 1.3 or 1.4 I started off with back then and stuck with it all the way through as other CMS systems just didn't seem as user friendly when I tried them. I can create nice websites that do what I need, just wish there was more help on making them great in the eyes of Google to pass the page speed and core web vitals tests etc
Pros
It has to be that it works logically and makes sense, if there is a problem you can usually work out what has caused it and fixed it without much of a problem. If you do get stuck then there are usually places where you can find answers to your problems online
Cons
When coming to technical SEO issues for things like increasing page speed, removing unused Java script & CSS etc most of the tutorials online seem to be focused more on different CMS users like WP etc, it would be great if Joomla did actually have some paid employees who could create useful guides for non coders who aren't experts that could make some walk through guides so the average user could make their own websites run like experts sites. I know Joomla is an open source software, but I wouldn't mind paying a small fee when I set up a new website to contribute to having some full time paid staff who could provide more documentation and training for Joomla, as opposed to having to paid large fees to experts as that's not really in my budget.
Reasons for Switching to Joomla
I tried Wordpress and found it very frustrating and unintuitive, then Drupal I didn't actually try, read a few reviews and decided to go with Joomla. Although I did see quite a few impressive websites that had been made on Drupal. Another thing that turned me off Wordpress was that I started to notice that most of the WordPress sites I was coming across seemed to be very very similar and so didn't really think that this would help my sites to stand out. Joomla seemed to have lots of very different styles of website which made it seem a lot more flexible.Joomla FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Joomla.Q. What type of pricing plans does Joomla offer?
Joomla offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from: US$199.00
- Pricing model: Free Version
- Free Trial: Not Available
Users can create websites for free, hosted on their own servers or on a Joomla subdomain. Upgrading to private hosting through SiteGround is also possible. Personal: From $99 Business: From $199 Agency: From $399
Q. Who are the typical users of Joomla?
Joomla has the following typical customers:
Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000
Q. What languages does Joomla support?
Joomla supports the following languages:
Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian
Q. Does Joomla support mobile devices?
Joomla supports the following devices:
Q. What other apps does Joomla integrate with?
Joomla integrates with the following applications:
Ecwid, Google Analytics 360, Google Maps, Moolah, Spreadshop
Q. What level of support does Joomla offer?
Joomla offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base
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