![]() The community too, though huge, mostly comprises relatively newer users figuring out how to get that particular thing done in Joomla! The implementation While Joomla! does have its share of talented developers using it, personally, all developers that I have seen using Joomla! swear at it in frustration at some point of time. While the admin panel lets you do virtually everything - from publishing articles to sending newsletter emails, running a big website with Joomla! can get confusing.Īlso, from a developer’s perspective, Joomla! is not the first choice for a CMS any more. For instance, when it comes to out-of-the-box SEO, Joomla! lags behind Drupal. However, there is still a long way to go, in comparison to WordPress and Drupal. With each release, Joomla! has shown a steady pace of development. The CMS is flexible and customisable, and boasts of a large community, as well as numerous extensions and templates. If WP is ideal for newbies and Drupal for developers, Joomla! attempts to cater to end users, designers and developers alike. The name “Joomla” means for “all together” (in Swahili), and the CMS does live up to its name. Joomla! is another amazing CMS that powers many websites, and is in active development. On the negative side, more often than not, a newbie to Drupal is greeted by the, “if you don’t find/like it, please feel free to contribute,” syndrome. ![]() The plus point is the loyal community that is always willing to give back to Drupal. Therefore, Drupal grows as developers fix/create things that matter most to them. Unlike WP (which is run mostly by a small group of developers), Drupal is more of a framework CMS nurtured by a large community of developers. On the downside, Drupal can’t beat WordPress when it comes to user-friendliness, and this is one of the main reasons why WP is winning converts. Modules such as Panels, Webform and Views make website creation very simple for the end user, and such features are expected to progress even further in upcoming releases. Now Drupal, too, is as user-friendly as a CMS can be. However, with the advent of Drupal 7, this has changed. In other words, if you were using Drupal, you were actually employing one of the most complex tools on the Internet to build a website! For quite some time, working in Drupal meant living without ready-made tools such as WYSIWYG editors to aid you - if you were using Drupal, you were hand-coding each and every element of your website, period. Drupalĭrupal has enjoyed a (rather unfathomable) distinction for being the most “developer-friendly CMS”. However, this number can also be attributed to the fact that WordPress is the most popular CMS out there, and thus, is more prone to such attacks. On the downside, these patches seem even more necessary for WordPress because it appears to be more vulnerable in matters of security compared to Drupal or Joomla! - over 50,000 WP websites are infected with spam. WordPress is in active development, and fixes/patches are released frequently. Plus, the official documentation is so well supplemented by several community blogs all across the Internet that if you ever run into any trouble, you can be sure that help is at hand. In fact, WordPress has the shallowest learning curve of all the three CMSs under review. Furthermore, it also has many plugins and themes that can help you customise your website even if you are not comfortable with code and Web development. Make no mistake about it: WordPress has the easiest interface (as compared to most other CMSs). ![]() So if you’re using WordPress, you sure are in good company! You can disable comments/trackbacks, use static pages, and tweak your website by using widgets and plugins. WordPress began as a blogging tool, but of late, has evolved into a full-fledged CMS powering the likes of The New York Times (Blogs), The Lance Armstrong Foundation, Miley Cyrus, Sylvester Stallone, Harvard Gazette, Mashable and, if I may add, LINUX For You. The aim here is to simply compare three of the most popular CMSs. What works well for me may not work for you! Thus, if Drupal is already your favourite, and you hate WordPress - or vice-versa - this article does not intend to belittle or alter your preferences. But before we go any further, it is worthwhile to point out that using (or not using) a particular CMS also involves a matter of personal taste.
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