I’m doing some research for a piece of content that will go up on Community.Envato soon doing a Wordpress vs Joomla vs Drupal comparison. I’m wanting to know as a buyer which one is best, and what you guys as experts think of each of them - their strengths, their weaknesses etc. I’m very interested in both the Author and Buyer perspective on this, especially why someone would choose one or the other, with the aim of making this discussion as comprehensive as possible.
I worked with WordPress and Joomla. As a web developer, I prefer WordPress to Joomla because it is more flexible and community support is awesome. As a buyer, I prefer WordPress again because it is more user friendly, and if I need an additional feature, I can find a plugin for that easily. Also the WordPress theme archive on the internet is huge and this is a big advantage for me especially if I need to find a niche theme.
WordPress is used by millions of people and almost every day new people
are joining the WordPress community by creating their first WordPress
powered websites. The reason why people quickly adapt to WordPress is
because it is fairly easy to use.
We’ve been using all 3 of these CMSs for the last 8 years.
We started out with Joomla 1.5 and then started to develop Joomla Themes on Themeforest.
It quickly became obvious that Wordpress is the CMS of choice for people starting out with a website and as a web development company selling themes on Themeforest it has to be wordpress as this is where the money is.
Joomla is great for large development projects.
I was never keen on Drupal.
Ohhh, Its years back when i started working with joomla maybe 2007 for one of my clients. It’s was not easy at that time then i have worked with WordPress and found WordPress much easier and more friendly for end users and even for administrators
Is this 2008-2010 era? WP vs Joomla vs Drupal used to be a question back then. I guess the winner was declared long time back. Its really funny senior member pinned this post. @KingDog do you still have hopes for J & D?
I believe Wordpress makes life easy because it has so many free plugins available and we can adopt it for any purpose. However using plugins can compromise security, therefore, we should only pick plugins from reputable authors.
Drupal is the second most popular content management system available today. It is a fully open source program, which many people prefer, especially those who are more technically minded.
Joomla is often thought of as the compromise between WordPress and Drupal. It is a powerful content management system, which can run smoothly on most web servers without any problems. It doesn’t require the same level of technical experience to run as Drupal, but it still offers many of the extra features. Like Drupal and WordPress, Joomla does have a lot of plug-ins and themes available to choose from, so you can customize your site to look and function in any way you desire.
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