We performed a comparison between Joomla and WordPress based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Web Content Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The speed in which you can take a CMS and make it a full-blown shopping cart with analytics tracking, SEO, user accounts, security, and ease of use through a robust framework of modules and plugins to enhance and promote-related content is about as turnkey as it gets with Joomla."
"One of the most robust, stable, secure, feature-rich CMSs on the market."
"We use WordPress on two different websites and it solves all of our website issues."
"WordPress offers great flexibility."
"This program has made it possible for our company to advertise all around the country, instead of keeping it local."
"There are so many free plugins"
"The themes are useful. They change the look and feel of a website with just one click."
"I like how it integrates graphics and words, and more generally, the way people can develop the choices of spaces for different websites."
"The product provides capabilities to build modern websites and can be used for various aspects of services."
"The standout feature is its high degree of customization. Creating user-friendly, easily maintainable websites is a breeze, especially with the convenient admin access."
"I would like to see the same sorting and attributes available through the web browser on the JED (sorting by free or commercial license, sort by rating, popularity, etc.) within the back-end Joomla Web Installer when browsing extensions."
"I would like to see more back-end admin power pulled into the front-end, therefore the admins will not have to use the back-end as much, especially for the menu manager, user manager, etc. versus using third-party extensions to achieve this."
"I would like to see a new UI."
"I think that WordPress is too cool in its contact."
"WordPress doesn't automatically scan the website, so we need to install paid plugins for this purpose. Unfortunately, this can lead to slower performance, which is a notable drawback."
"In WordPress, the user onboarding process is an area with complexities...there is no step-by-step explanation provided."
"I would recommend dumping the Gutenberg interface, as that is horrible."
"WordPress needs to improve its usability."
"I would like to have the ability to customize the whole WordPress installation. WordPress comes with a number of core features. I would love to be able to remove those I'm not using at the moment."
"WordPress could use improvement in terms of optimization, especially for large websites with extensive databases and many images."
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Joomla is ranked 15th in Web Content Management while WordPress is ranked 2nd in Web Content Management with 28 reviews. Joomla is rated 8.6, while WordPress is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Joomla writes "One of the most robust, stable, secure, feature-rich CMSs on the market". On the other hand, the top reviewer of WordPress writes "Very customizable, and forms the base for most websites on the Internet". Joomla is most compared with SharePoint, whereas WordPress is most compared with SharePoint, Quintype, Adobe Experience Manager, Liferay Digital Experience Platform and Drupal. See our Joomla vs. WordPress report.
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