When to use Joomla or WordPress for Website Design & Development?

September 28, 2016
Concept Support: Wordpress, Joomla

Joomla and WordPress are open source Content Management System CMS) used for Website Design & Development. WordPress and Joomla both are famous Content Management System. Both have good community. So both have free and paid extension and plugins available. So how to decide which CMS is better for as per your requirement? When to use Joomla or WordPress? To solve this issue we have written this content based on our 8+ years of web development experience in Joomla and WordPress. Below content needs some technical knowledge also.

When to use WordPress?

  1. When you have single admin to manage your site content then choose WordPress.
  2. If your main aim to create blog management website then you have to use WordPress. WordPress is mainly developing to make blog website.
  3. If your site is small and some dynamic content then you have to choose WordPress.
  4. If you have no much website software management knowledge then you have to choose WordPress. WordPress is very easy to manage.
  5. For the developer, WordPress is written in php language and there are some rules to make new custom plugin and theme. So the developer can easily create plugin and theme.
  6. WordPress has no MVC framework. So if you want to customize some third party plugin then you have to understand that developer code. There is no framework. So each person writes own style code which creates the big issue to understand the code for other developers.
  7. WordPress has the big community. So many readymade plugins are available. So admin can easily extend the site functionality by adding third-party plugins.
  8. As a developer point of view if you want to develop some custom management then you have to use custom post type of you have to create own tables for that requirement. If you use custom post type then WordPress use existing WordPress table to just add post type. So if you have lots of entries then one table size will become large which is not good as per development point of view. In WordPress admin files and front-end files, both are on the same location. So you can not make more secure of the admin side of files.
  9. In WordPress theme is used to display the layout of the site. In WordPress, there is no feature to see the content location at front-end. Admin can view just only homepage view by clicking on customize button of the theme.

When to use Joomla?

  1. When you have the big site then you have to choose Joomla. If you have multiple persons to manage the site like author, editor, publisher, manager etc then you have to choose Joomla.
  2. If your main aim to create news website then you have to use Joomla. Joomla has inbuilt multiple users type like author, editor, publisher, manager, admin etc. So in Joomla, you can give permission to each user and each content. So the author can write content and editor can verify and edit the content and same as publisher publish the content.
  3. If you want to create big content management site with multiple users management then you have to use Joomla. Joomla provides good user management features. So you can give permission to each user as per your requirement.
  4. Joomla is little bit complex than WordPress. You need some software management knowledge to manage the Joomla site.
  5. Joomla is written in php language and it follows MVC structure. So the developer can easily develop module, component, and template as per requirement.
  6. Joomla is developed in MVC framework. So the developer has to follow the MVC rules. So the code will be in standard format. So the developer can easily customize the code of another developer. Another developer can easily understand the flow of the code.
  7. Joomla has many inbuilt modules. So admin can use inbuild module as per requirement. Joomla has also the wide community. So admin can extend the site functionality as per requirement by adding the free and paid extension as per requirement.
  8. As a developer point of view if you want to develop some custom management component then Joomla is better than WordPress. In Joomla admin side and front side code files are different. Both locations are different. So you can secure the admin side files. If you want to create some custom component then you have to create its own tables also. So it does not depend on core Joomla tables. So you can easily manage relationship and dependency on other tables.
  9. Joomla has templates for layout. At the front end, each content will be display on template position. So Joomla has one good feature to check the content display position. By enabling template position from backend we can see the content position at the front end by adding “?tp=1” words after the homepage URL. So it displays the content position. So admin can change the content position by module manager. In Joomla user can view sub-pages content position also by adding “&tp=1” variable.

In summary, you have to choose Joomla or WordPress based on your site requirement for Website Design & Development. Many of the developers are choose CMS based on their experience also. Some developers are expert in WordPress then they use only WordPress to develop any web. And some developers are expert in Joomla then any type of website they use Joomla. But it creates an issue to manage the site for the client.

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