Thread: Joomla or Wordpress?

Hey,

I currently use WordPress for my blogs, however, I am starting to see more 'light' within Joomla - what do you think to this? Which is better for a blog?

For a blog? I'd always say Wordpress.

Joomla is pretty good for other things though.

i also think that Wordpress is better then Joomla but Joomla is good to i guess the famous are wordpress and joomla

As far as I know, Joomla is obviously developing their unique templates and I gotta say the sites are just plain excellent. If Joomla can perform like this... that on its own is a significantly clear advantage!

I also use word press for my blogs. I think it is more advanced than Joomla. In 1007 word press also won a Packt Open Source CMS Award. It has a templating system, which includes widgets that can be rearranged without editing PHP or HTML code. It also features integrated link management, a search engine friendly, clean permalink structure.

Hi,

I have had both. I liked a lot of the what Joomla has to offer. So I am not knocking Joomla at all but for a blog I would say wp. But for the best theme layout and add on's Joomla by far.

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For blog most important thing is content - so it must/could be done only with Wordpress

Wordpress and Joomla are both excellent at what they do. I would say Wordpress is best for a blog, but Joomla is better for a website with dynamic content. Joomla is very powerful and there will be some time needed to learn how it works and you will need to migrate your content. I think moving to Joomla would be a lot of work for little gain.

If you were starting a new site from scratch, then I would say 50/50 between Joomla and Wordpress - or just go with whichever you have most experience of.

Any power blogger will tell you wordpress is the ultimate blogging platform, it is so customizable and all the plugins available are just so amazing.

What would be some reasons for using Joomla?

Content management and user management are great in Joomla. You can engage users, give incentives to members, etc. It goes way beyond mere blogging and you can create nearly any kind of major web project once you learn the bells and whistles.

For me WordPress is much better than Joomla because there are some useful plugins in WordPress that are not available in Joomla.

I think wordpress is better because it has huge variety of amazing plugins

Obviously wordpress is best for a blog. It has some useful plugins and the CMS is very easy.

Wordpress is better than joomla for blogs or for any other sites you own. It can rank well in SERPS and can always add additional plugins that you found useful for you blog. Pretty amazing your new opsts are crawled within minutes.

I had work with both wordpress and joomla and I like more wordpress, joomla is Ok.

anytime wordpress

Joomla is good for a membership site..For a blog, nothing like Wordpress - the ease, design, etc.

Wordpress is surely better for blogs and it's quite safe and familiar, but i know that some use Joomla because it has more extensions.

wordpress is easy to manage and it has lot of pluginss.

I guess I prefer wordpress considering that wordpress is more handy at the same time much user friendly

I prefer to use Joomla because it is quite good.and Joomla application is very easy to handle.

Wordpress is very good and little bit easy too. it gives very good features free blog create and many plugins.

Originally Posted by sequencehosting

Joomla doesn't have much on Wordpress as a blog.

Joomla = Website
Wordpress = Blog

That is my opinion only. If you really like Joomla, go for it and see how it goes.

I also agree with sequencehosting, I am going to use Joomla for my new website.
For websites i think Joomla is much better.

wordpress of course. more addons and features

I have been using Joomla since I started blogging. I haven't tried WP yet but I probably will for my next blog idea just to see how it is.

I suggest you to use wordpress.

I haven't tried using Joomla yet but as what I can see Joomla has great designs. Though Wordpress has nice templates as well plus, it has wonderful plug-ins that's a blogger friendly.

joomla is awesome. you can pretty much customize everything and it is great when designing a web site you wish to be easily edited and updated instead of having to update every html page.

I Think wordpress id best spot for blogging and also gives the many facilities though he take every comment for moderation but its good.
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I always prefer word press for a blog

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I Think there is joomla is the best because for its blog quality,facilities and also in other works. By the way wordpress have ability but this is not for urgently

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Originally Posted by sequencehosting

Joomla doesn't have much on Wordpress as a blog.

Joomla = Website
Wordpress = Blog

That is my opinion only. If you really like Joomla, go for it and see how it goes.

Spot on - Joomla has all sorts of user management features and can do plenty of stuff that WP cant.

If you are just looking to run a blog then WP is the way to go.

Definitely Wordpress!

I m having joomla as well as word press experience but i think that for blog working wordpress more easier to handle in case of site management and administration joomla works great.

Wordpress is by far the best blog solution.

neither of them.

I am not a huge fan of joomla mostly because I never really figured it out, too much stuff and too much confusion in my opinion.
Sure it enables you to build a much wider variety of websites, but if your need is blogging I'd say stick with wordpress: it's VERY flexible, you can edit it and customize it to fit your needs and you have a variety of plugins ready to use.

Wordpress is very easy to modify and adapt for any purpose, for what I have seen joomla is way more complicated

Originally Posted by iany1050

Hey,

I currently use WordPress for my blogs, however, I am starting to see more 'light' within Joomla - what do you think to this? Which is better for a blog?

for a blog.. always wordpress. jooomla is more for articles based CMS site!

I am definitely a WP addict. All of my blogs are made from WP. I like WP because it is easy to get around with. You don't have to be an expert for you to be able to set-up a blog. Plus the freedom it gives to the user to fully customize their blog is amazing.