Let’s compare WordPress and Joomla in all aspects. WordPress or Joomla? Let’s look for an answer to the question.
Are you trying to choose between Joomla and WordPress for your website you want to create? WordPress seems to be the most popular system today. It deserves its popularity to the fullest, especially with its managed hosting platform. But that doesn’t mean that WordPress is the only way to create a website.
If we consider other platforms, Joomla and Drupal are the other 2 most popular platforms.
Today we will benchmark Joomla and try to show whether WordPress or Joomla is better, with the pros and cons. Joomla and WordPress, open source content management systems, have existed for more than 10 years. Both platforms offer solutions to create and manage all content on websites.
WordPress is currently the most popular and most useful content management system in the world. Originally launched as a blogging platform in 2003, WordPress currently hosts 31% of all websites in the digital world and 59.9% of the known content management system market. Joomla was launched in 2005 and is almost as old as WordPress. Joomla has about 3% of all websites on the internet and also holds 6.4% of the content management system market.
With this data, Joomla is currently the second most popular content management system. However, as you can see here, Joomla’s share in the content management system market has been decreasing steadily since 2010. The general market, which includes all websites, has shrunk for the first time last year.
When we look at Google Trends’ data from 2004 to the present, we see that both platforms rose very rapidly for the first time and even until 2010 Joomla was the market leader. Then things turn around and WordPress continues to grow as Joomla starts to shrink. However, this does not mean that Joomla is a hollow platform.
Advantages of WordPress
- Ease of use: WordPress is much more user-friendly, especially for developers.
- Blog compatibility: WordPress offers many options and static pages for blog posts, while Joomla offers a single article type.
- Extensibility: WordPress’s third-party theme and plugin communities also make it easy to extend WordPress without your personal experience or technical knowledge.
Easy to get help: Thanks to WordPress’s huge community, you can easily find support for any problems you encounter.
Lower development costs: WordPress offers more “out of the box” solutions and WordPress developers’ financial
