The basic difference between WordPress and Joomla is that Joomla is a portal- or community type site while WordPress is a blog.
I found a great article written on the Joomla! site (though it is not biased at all) that points out how Joomla!, Wordpress and Drupal are the top three CMS / Blogging systems out there. Choose any of them and you’re a winner…well, depending on what you want your website to do.
Wordpress is a blog. That’s it. That’s all that it ever will be succesfully. The code is written sloppily and with every upgrade the system breaks a plugin that has been installed, or a theme that has been custom designed. It’s also extremely dificult to make it do what you want, as I’ve spent many hours trying to do just that.
Joomla! is a Content Management system (not a portal, though it could be used as one…) This means that it is used to aggregate a lot of content and put it into a nice form on your website. This includes blogs, magazines, newsletters, articles, knowledge bases, tutorials, forums, and much more. Joomla gives you a lot of power in your hands and that is noticeable in the admin section where there are so many options that you get dizzy the first time you go in.
Granted, it’s a wonderful blog if that’s all that you are doing and all you want to do. But if you want flexibility…go with Joomla! or even Drupal...
For instance, adding or removing post dates in wordpress, need to be changed in design mode and it requires knowledge of WP scripting. The navigational structure is determined by the layout template you chose. Changing that structure again requires knowledge of the WP scripting language and CSS. With Joomla, you do not run into this problem because menus are controlled via the control panel and attributes like dates, author name etc, can be turned on and off per article or for the whole site in one go. In that sense, Joomla is much more a content management system.
Hmmmh... does the choice right?... Then make your own choice.. & good luck.
Joomla! is a Content Management system (not a portal, though it could be used as one…) This means that it is used to aggregate a lot of content and put it into a nice form on your website. This includes blogs, magazines, newsletters, articles, knowledge bases, tutorials, forums, and much more. Joomla gives you a lot of power in your hands and that is noticeable in the admin section where there are so many options that you get dizzy the first time you go in.
Granted, it’s a wonderful blog if that’s all that you are doing and all you want to do. But if you want flexibility…go with Joomla! or even Drupal...
For instance, adding or removing post dates in wordpress, need to be changed in design mode and it requires knowledge of WP scripting. The navigational structure is determined by the layout template you chose. Changing that structure again requires knowledge of the WP scripting language and CSS. With Joomla, you do not run into this problem because menus are controlled via the control panel and attributes like dates, author name etc, can be turned on and off per article or for the whole site in one go. In that sense, Joomla is much more a content management system.
Hmmmh... does the choice right?... Then make your own choice.. & good luck.
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