Joomla Or Wordpress - Which One To Go For?

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This answer to this question is not that simple as it depends on a user as well as the type of application he or she intends to design. While you can use Joomla for sites with much complex structures involved, Wordpress is more used in sites which are not that complex.

Wordpress is far less complicated than Joomla which involves a lot of it but the extensions it offers are far more than what Wordpress has to offer. So it all depends on whether you want to go for easy posting of Wordpress or the full fledged structuring offered by Joomla.

Both of them are unique in the services they provide and it is you who will best decide on which works best for you. As we proceed through the article you will be provided with an idea which will help you decide on which will suite your need the best.

It is a general perception that Joomla is more popular among those users who prefer a full on content website, for example providing multiple levels of people to provide updates to the site. Whereas Wordpress is preferred in places where you are always looking to either publish or produce a lot of daily content very frequently.

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... Joomla is favourable for its different levels of user control and extensions. Wordpress on the other hand is confined only to three levels of control and not more. You might however be at sea with all the complexities involved in Joomla and is difficult for beginners to cope up with this initially.

Another very important factor with regard to the two is that Joomla has a number of modules, components which are complex by nature to monitor and install but Wordpress only has a number of installable plugins which can be easily put to use at any point of time without going to much into the technical details of the Content Management System (CMS).

As a matter of fact Joomla is always a bothering for beginners but general people without too much of a technical knowledge about all this generally prefer Wordpress as it does not take them much time to become a master at it.

Working at the back end becomes easier with Wordpress and not so with Joomla. Adding of widgets, plugins and SEO is also easier in with Wordpress than with Joomla. Also the plugins offered by Joomla are outdated to some extent and poorly coded.

Changing the look or feel of a site can be easily accomplished. Most importantly starting and maintenance of a blog is far less complicated in Wordpress as it offers a convenient way to do it.

Although some believe that Joomla is easier to install on the contrary Wordpress takes far less time in getting installed and running live. Also as far as templates are concerned Wordpress has the largest number of online templates available. It is more like an application rather than a CMS.

As far as SEO friendliness goes Wordpress scores over Joomla as because it has native support for canonical URLs and search engine friendly titles with superior XML sitemaps. Joomla however provides ease in handling Google’s Adsense which is not that effectively done with Wordpress.

It is to be understood well here that although Wordpress is very known for the functionalities it offers, but you will always need Joomla for large capacity work and if you are trying to build a large enough system. Wordpress can be handled by a team of just over a few and here lies the ease in managing the resources involved in it. Also it does not require a lot of experience for that matter.

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