We performed a comparison between Joomla and WordPress based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Wordpress, Adobe and others in Web Content Management."One of the most robust, stable, secure, feature-rich CMSs on the market."
"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."
"It is easy to edit content using WordPress."
"The best feature of WordPress is its user-friendliness and its strong SEO capabilities."
"We use WordPress on two different websites and it solves all of our website issues."
"I like how it integrates graphics and words, and more generally, the way people can develop the choices of spaces for different websites."
"The best feature in WordPress is Elementor. It lets you easily create one-page landing sites."
"The most valuable features of the solution are its flexibility, ease of working with, intuitive interface, and ease of finding a huge online community, along with its simplicity of integration with other solutions."
"There are so many free plugins"
"Good for rapidly turning around all the elements required for online sales funnels."
"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."
"Backups and moving sites could be handled better."
"In WordPress, the user onboarding process is an area with complexities...there is no step-by-step explanation provided."
"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."
"It could be a little bit easier to use."
"I would like to see a new UI."
"A user may feel intimidated the first time he or she sees it."
"The backend development process needs improvement."
"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 14th 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.
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