Sheesh. The last time I used Joomla was… … … oh snap, I can’t even remember.
But I do remember using it when it first came out as I was looking for an alternative to Mambo CMS (oh wow, when was the last time you heard Mambo?).
But there’s a place for Joomla as many large enterprises and businesses are using it in some clever and useful ways. Here’s a top-level overview infographic to compare to two side-by-side:
So, when was the last time you rocked out a Joomla installation?
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I approached my kids’ private school about their upcoming website launch and they told me it’s going to be Joomla. /facepalm
some reason School IT guys LOVE joomla… i don’t get it
Yeah, what’s to like about the only completely responsive backend and configurable custom access controls?
“WP has only had 3 versions” is one of the silly infographic/marketer errors I’d most love to see disappear. It’s second only to “WP is made by Automattic” for me as a sign of “I don’t really know what I’m talking about, but I copied all my information from someone else’s post”.
Hah. You’re right. Looks pretty ridiculous. Still helpful for the lay-person.
Always the problem with infographics, but this seems like a pretty big over-simplification, especially the flowchart at the bottom. Right off the bat, the flowchart says that WordPress can’t do anything complex and seems to imply that Joomla can’t include a blog.
Agreed. I think WordPress can handle anything complex that Joomla can. I may be a bit biased though. =) I wonder where they got the difficulty level for support communication too. meh
The content structure alone wins this one for WordPress. And of course Widgets > Modules.
Thanks for the interesting infographic!
For me Joomla is a lot easier to learn than WordPress. Need to turn off the title from a single article? There’s an option for that. Need a module only on one specific page? There’s an option for that. Need to give some access to only one area? There’s an option for that.
The list can go on and on, while for WordPress you often need a code change to do even a trivial task, and the code change is often no where close to trivial for a novice, such as myself; or you have to install a plugin, which may or may not be well maintained for future versions and which may or may not work well for the current version.
By the way, Virtuemart is not the only Joomla ecommerce extension nor is it the best one, as the infographic suggests. It really should have a “(or other extensions)” after it as WooCommerce does for WordPress.
Kind regards,
Nick
these infographics are terribly entertaining and also terribly limited at times.
There also seems to be an assumption that Virtuemart is the only (good?) eCommerce option for Joomla. It’s not. Joomla can be integrated rather easily with other applications and has really good integration with Magento. (Which would be a nightmare in WP.)
Between Joomla 1.5 and 3.0 Joomla went through a low point at the end of some long stagnation and then started making steady gains that put it on track to reverse the market share reversal it experienced. In-place upgrades and major interface improvements (it’s Bootstrap on the front and backend in 3.0), custom access controls, and a lot of other stuff more than makes up for the deficits that used to make Joomla lag behind WP. Deeper down, a solid platform that’s developed separately (and separately deployable) from the CMS layer, gives Joomla major advantages. Given enough time, effective marketing and support services, Joomla should penetrate enterprise markets that WordPress (.org) can’t.