Comments on: Joomla vs. WordPress Comparison 2024

By: Anya Skrba

Anya Skrba — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 10:45:40 +0000

In reply to Nikola. Thanks Nikola for your input!

By: Nikola

Nikola — Wed, 09 Sep 2020 16:05:37 +0000

With Joomla you can override whatever you want (plugins, modules, components, templates, etc). With WP you can’t override plugins.
This is a big disadvantage of WordPress.

By: Erick Boileau

Erick Boileau — Wed, 20 Mar 2019 14:56:13 +0000

Even for a very simple blog I prefer Joomla, I find it easier to do a blog as you like , and if you need something special, overrides are very easy to do with Joomla

By: Roger

Roger — Fri, 15 Feb 2019 20:49:43 +0000

For our large corporate clients Joomla is the way to go. Yes, WordPress is easier and hence why it is more popular than Joomla and Drupal. For us developing custom features and complex websites Joomla and Drupal is the way to go. From our experience most the developers on WordPress are not as experienced in coding vs. Joomla and Drupal developers.

By: Dan Atrill

Dan Atrill — Wed, 02 Jan 2019 12:38:20 +0000

I love that Joomla has some great features available by default. SEO and language tools are essential for many sites. Even just to add a meta description by default should be a feature that I am amazed WordPress doesn’t include in the core software. It also concerns me that lots of the WordPress plugins are small code additions that could be added as a snippet in functions.php rather than adding to plugin-bloat.

By: Dainius

Dainius — Thu, 09 Aug 2018 07:25:17 +0000

Try to override plugins output in wordpress, it’s almost impossible in Joomla it’s using modules and you can override almost any output how the html is formed without trying to hack css of every element.
Wordpress is good if you found perfect theme but if you need custom solution is better build a Joomla site.

Oh and don’t get me started on theme building as almost none of the themes give you less or sass files that compile on the go where in Joomla it’s almost a standard.

WordPress good for noobs and theme grabbers.
Joomla best for customisations of modules, components and very unique look of every page without the need of creatin or copying every plugin so you can output html ad you want

By: Vast

Vast — Wed, 09 May 2018 19:35:14 +0000

In reply to John West.

I’ve used both WordPress and Joomla to create sites, but for my corporate sites, I use Joomla.
Once you know Joomla, it’s amazingly simple to use, and it’s much agiler and controllable than WordPress.
However, I do think that some of the Joomla documentation makes it sound way more complicated than it is and that’s a disservice to Joomla.
I say, watch a couple Joomla tutorials and give it a try. Also, SiteGround hosting has a one-step Joomla install that’s super easy to use.

By: CobourgJohn

CobourgJohn — Sun, 29 Apr 2018 16:11:40 +0000

I have developed more than 30 sites on Joomla and find it a lot more versatile and capable – it’s less important to get the “right” template/theme, and you need fewer extensions; more capability is built in. But for a blog where comments are important, I started with Joomla but have now switched to WordPress. It’s more capable and simply better with comments. So I would definitely choose Joomla for every site except a blog. WordPress started as a blogging CMS and is still ahead for that.

By: pertussini

pertussini — Sat, 21 Apr 2018 07:13:33 +0000

We use Joomla for all of our clients. We tried WordPress, it is good, but we love Joomla and its powerful and flexible system. And in 2018 we will have Joomla 4!

By: John

John — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 22:02:34 +0000

In reply to John West.

I’m with you — I use Joomla. A much more capable platform, and and more secure. For a business blog, I’d look at the easyblog component. I’ve used it for a few business blogs and it provides great features.