Open source wars: WordPress vs Drupal vs Joomla
Every IT person, developer, and programmer has an opinion when it comes to the various open source content management systems out there. It often comes down to functionality and ease of use, but even then the lines are often blurred and there is rarely a clear-cut victor. WordPress vs Drupal vs Joomla – which is really the king of open source CMS?
Our friends at Devious Media tackled the question and did a comprehensive breakdown, putting each CMS under a microscope to answer the most important questions to help people make a choice. For us, the choice is clear, but blogging is not the only thing important in the internet world. Other functionality traits need to be considered.
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This is great if you’re a beginner, because you can use different tools in Drupal to contain and merge different ideas. When working on a website, most programmers will look for specific modules that cannot be merged to include on the website. When you first use it, Drupal may not seem as flexible as it turns out to be. Once you learn the program, the possibilities are almost limitless. If you’re new at it, Drupal is flexible and user-friendly, yet its power provides the professional programmer with opportunity to expand ideas to new and greater levels.
For many years I used Mambo, then Joomla, tried Drupal (hated it. This system is powerful, but only for hard core php geeks who love a daily challenge).
The last couple years (since v3) it’s 100% WordPress for me, primarily because it’s 2-3 times faster to get a slick looking, high functioning website built. Time is money and the simple fact that the wordpress platform allows me to more than halve the overall design-development cost appeals to A LOT of my new clients. We spend less time with the actual coding, meaning more funds are available for website marketing and content etc. i.e. Getting traffic.
Am also finding that the developer community is larger and much more responsive. With select plugins (like Gravityforms, Pippin etc) I can now do things that were always difficult in Joomla. The Studiopress framework means I can build a unique child theme from a PSD file in half the time of a Joomla theme (generally a day), and together with tools and advice from Yoast SEO, my WordPress sites always appear far higher up in a Google search result, in less time and effort than in Joomla (or any other CMS platform). Those websites we convert from static get a huge traffic boost, far more than my Joomla CMS sites, which took me twice as long to build.
Just for the Google search/SEO and blogging features alone WordPress is the obvious choice. The others are just for corporates or government agencies that need a lot of back-end integration and have unlimited budgets. I’ve several of my old Joomla sites we’re converting over to WordPress to improve their seach ranking and to encourage them to ‘blog’ more which also helps traffic and sales.
The hidden technological benefits of one CMS platform over another mean little if you’re after business results and an ROI.
E-commerce: If you propose to have an e-commerce site, see that payment processing systems and shopping cart are properly integrated till the checkout process and they function smoothly.
I’ve been using these three cms for almost 4 years now.
And I believe WordPress is the best among them.
Although wordpress is poorly coded compare to joomla and drupal. It is easier to understand specially for beginner developer.
Why worry of coding? WordPress has a lot of ready to use plugins. And it is increasing everyday.
On my opinion, WP is the best CMS.
JohnDoe (aka Troll), your tripe is a piss poor excuse for a comment. Either try to add to the conversation in a meaningful way or STFU.
BTW, I’m a Drupal developer on a Windows platform. Just thought I’d mention that as your opinion of WordPress and Apple didn’t offend me in the least. Your complete lack of intelligence, however, DID offend me.