Comments on: Joomla or WordPress? Which one to Choose?

By: eÄŸlence

eÄŸlence — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:22:39 +0000

i like wp since it is easy to use. joomla has more functions but complex panel and so difficult to use.
but when we compare the speed – joomla beats wp – here an example (iÃ§ denetim) and i really disappointed about the speed of wp.
maybe it will be better to make joomla more simple. especially the admin panel.

By: Crystal

Crystal — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:00:12 +0000

I’m using Joomla for a long time already and everything is achievable with it though I didn’t try WP. WP in my eyes is easily set up. It seems it has everything a blogger need.

By: freezonal

freezonal — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:58:32 +0000

your article is great and is quite true. i too have the same vision about the two powerful CMS joomla and wordpress. i love joomla since its powerful more than just a blog, but wordpress is very powerful and ease to use as a blog.

By: Love2Shop

Love2Shop — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:01:45 +0000

After your review on both joomla and wordpress, now I know which platform that best suit my needs. Thanks.

By: Bruce Mind

Bruce Mind — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:51:08 +0000

I’m using Joomla for a long time already and everything is achievable with it though I didn’t try WP. WP in my eyes is easily set up. It seems it has everything a blogger need.
Joomla has many extention and is installed easily. If you’re looking for a bloging platform only I probably would suggest WP… Anyways, any platform can be adjusted by programming right?
Ah, and one point about Joomla – in my oppinion you’ll definitelly have to learn some CSS programming (it’s really easy actually) or hire a programmer, because if you want to implement new extentions their graphics usually don’t fit your site very nicelly.

By: NIgerian news

NIgerian news — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 01:11:41 +0000

this joomla wordpress issue has left me with a hard decision to make, i want to to create something simple but packed with features. i am probably going the blogger way

By: website design

website design — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:13:04 +0000

I use both. They both have their place. If the site is content only (ie: informational and doesn’t require user participation in any way) then wordpress is a great, simple option. It’s much more intuitive, and easier for regular users to get accustomed to. For anything more complicated, joomla’s the next step up. After that it’s Drupal or custom development.

By: Hummerbie

Hummerbie — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:26:23 +0000

@Accounting Teacher: I use Joomla on the main site http://www.hummerbie.com and WordPress for this Blog in a sub-domain.

If you want to convert your current site for use with a content management system WordPress will do the job. If you want more features I suggest you check out Joomla!

By: Accounting Teacher

Accounting Teacher — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:15:47 +0000

What you are using on your site? Joomla or Wordpress

By: The Soap Guy

The Soap Guy — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 21:25:24 +0000

Interesting idea and seo friendly approach. It will increase the number of indexed pages as well as backlinks.

By: Paramount

Paramount — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:02:50 +0000

How about to use blogger instead of wordpress ? It is well indexed and rapidly updated as bein part of google. I think you can use your subdomain as its domian.

By: Sci-Fi Si

Sci-Fi Si — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:25:51 +0000

lol!

I just started with Joomla a couple of days ago. I really like the look of the templates especially some of the stuff provided by rockettheme.com much nicer than Wordpress.

I haven’t published the Joomla side of things as yet – am still working on the CSS and just learning what I’m doing before sending it live but will keep you posted.

I’ve just seen ‘mojoBlog’ which as I understand it is an actual WordPress component for Joomla – what do you think? Maybe even this corePHP thingy, but they want an annual subscription.

I first started my site in Flash ActionScript 3, ColdFusion8 and MySQL, but it was just so much work – especially if I wanted to add more posts to it, I would of had to write my own CMS (which I nearly did!) I’m just glad I found WordPress/Joomla/Drupal and PHP. You can see what I was up to here: http://caspianit.co.uk/index.cfm

By: Hummerbie

Hummerbie — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 08:10:51 +0000

@Andrew: The WordPress blog will count for Alexa traffic as wel, but the main part is indeed to get traffic to the Blog and then send you visitors to the main site.

You can use a keyword richt menu link to do that and to provide content on you blog on wich you point to sperate articles on the main site.
You can pick a special related topic to your site and drive traffic that way. I blog about SEO here, but the main site http://www.hummerbie.com is building Joomla and WordPress websites.

@Sci-Fi Si: Clever Affliate link to Artiseer :-) You main site is in WordPress and not in Joomla, so I will let these spammy comments go for now as I think Artiseer is a great product to create matching Joomla and WordPress templates.

By: Sci-Fi Si

Sci-Fi Si — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 16:50:40 +0000

Just a thought but you know that a program called Artisteer will let you create a web design template and them for both Joomla! and WordPress so that saves loads of work, also it’s really easy to make a design!

You can have a look here if you like
http://caspianit.co.uk/artisteer.cfm

By: Sci-Fi Si

Sci-Fi Si — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 16:47:27 +0000

Indeed. I’ve just installed both as you have suggested, I needed to create a /tmp directory and tweak my php.ini file but I’ve got them both installed now :)

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:41:40 +0000

Hummerbie
Can you elaborate more on this article? So you are saying that we say have http://www.bananacreampie.com as our main website which is powered by Joomla, and then use a subdomain that runs wordpress, wordpressblog.bananacreampie.com. Am I right? How does this drive traffic from the subdomain to the domain??? Unless people click to go to the http://www.bananacreampie.com site, Google doesnt count traffic that goes to the subdomain, wordpressblog.bananacreampie.com, as part of the http://www.bananacreampie.com traffic. Does it? I guess I am confused on how traffic is counted from one to the other.

I think making a subdomain for the blog would be easy enough. I’ve seen other sites like slickdeals.net, and CNN do the same thing. It’ll be like, blog.slickdeals.net.

If that is the case, we just use Joomla’s built-in wrapper to set up the display of the subdomain, right? It seems the easy way to do it.

By: marcus

marcus — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:15:14 +0000

They are different tastes and for different purpose. I haven’t thought of it so far. Combining may be interesting but costs much of time and struggle while each of their customization challenging.

By: projectsap

projectsap — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:09:03 +0000

interesting idea that is logical and worth to give a chance.

By: Finsofts

Finsofts — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:24:45 +0000

This is a great thing to combine two super powers am going to try this out..

By: Sam Lowel

Sam Lowel — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:07:37 +0000

Thanks for the post, i installed both wordpress and joomla and found that wordpress is easy to work with since im new to cms world and also it gives ideas if you are a creative person..
with joomla and all its plugins and stuff its almost ready to rock your website but also it will slow it down!
so after a month of trying both and working with both i give up on joomla and will work with wp but must keep up with security stuff and keep both eyes open
best regards