Today it’s no surprise to anyone that almost every second active Internet user owns his own website. This state of affairs is largely due to the fact that now there is no need to know HTML markup well, and it is absolutely not necessary to be a programmer.
How was this possible? It's simple - now all of this is responsible for site management systems, better known as CMS. The most famous are Joomla and WordPress. They gained popularity because of their simplicity and focus on the most inexperienced users. You can even create very complex sites using them, and not just the simplest author pages.
What is a CMS?
If you decipher this term, then in the English version it turns out Content Manager System. Translated into Russian, this means a specialized system for managing content on the site. Much more often CMS is designated by the term "Site Engine".
Speaking quite simply, then this term refers to a special program that the webmaster installs on the hosting. This is such a "layer" between the site owner (administrator), hosting system and users.
The most important component of any such system is the database. What is it? If you do not delve into the disclosure of concepts, then almost any extended table can be called that.
The name of each publication is written in the cells of such a “table”, its contents, comments and other important information are entered in the appropriate fields. Using the web interface, the site owner can make changes to the database structure. When a specific page is opened in the user's browser, the content management program simply extracts all the necessary information from the database, and then enters it into an already prepared template.
So all the pages of the site are drawn. A huge advantage of this kind of system is the fact that you can completely change the design of the portal at any time, and these actions will not affect it in any way. Entering new information is no more difficult than working with your page on a social network.
Flour of choice
Many ask an important and painful question: “Joomla or WordPress? Which engine is better and more reliable? ” We will try to give a detailed answer in this article.
We’ll immediately warn you that you won’t get a definite answer. Both systems are good in their own way, and therefore we will only talk in more detail about the advantages and disadvantages of each engine.
In order to somehow decide, you need to know at least about the preferred places to use each of these engines. Simply put, you should clearly imagine what is best for the home page, and what is preferable to use to create a small social network.
So Joomla or WordPress? Let's begin to understand in more detail!
A bit about Joomla
What can this engine be used for? That Joomla is perfect for your own social network project, as well as for the development of the corporate site of the enterprise "middle hand". Do you need a quality infotainment portal? Not a problem, this engine will perfectly cope with this task. By the way, it’s on Joomla that such recently popular online cinemas are created.
In general, if you need a really large site, with many photos and videos, then Jumla will often be the only optimal choice. In addition, Joomla templates from well-known designers are not as expensive as similar work for WordPress.
As for the extensibility of functionality, then in this matter it is this engine that is better than its competitor. There are thousands of widgets, and Joomla modules do not require any programming knowledge to install. If we talk about WordPress, then to expand the functionality of the site you will have to practice mastering PHP.
Controllability of different page elements is also a strong point of Jumla. In this case, the administrator can edit almost all of the content, while in WordPress you will have to buy a paid template for the same purpose, and even choose its Russian version, since otherwise it will be very difficult to figure it out.
Many website creators warmly talk about the Joomla menu. In this respect, this CMS far exceeds its competitor. A bunch of different categories, and you can create new ones and edit existing ones. In the case of WordPress, things are not so simple. There are only “Categories” and “Pages”, which functionality is actually limited.
SEO
If you want to get profit from your site (and who does not want to!), Then at this point you will have to pay special attention. Jumla is a great engine, but its capabilities in terms of search engine optimization are somewhat curtailed.
WordPress is literally ideal for creating sites that in the future will be able to occupy the best search results for Google and Yandex. Of course, this does not negate the need for long and hard work with content and the inclusion of the necessary keywords in it.
The main disadvantages of "Jumla"
Of course, there are certain disadvantages in this honey container. Let's talk about them in more detail.
First things first, not all users like the device directly template. In particular, it has a huge number of elements that need to be removed for comfortable work with the site.
Of course, you have to do everything manually. Important! To do this normally, you need to know HTML quite well, because otherwise it would be unrealistic to understand this piling. And in this case, you will need a lot of time for editing. In general, Joomla templates are far from intuitive, so you will have to work a lot.
Speed is our problem!
Secondly, the speed of loading sites on the "Jumla" is far from cosmic. It happens that even a not too overloaded portal located on a powerful server loads in four seconds! Just a nightmare. You have to shovel half the template, after which time is reduced to one and a half to two seconds. And even this is far from ideal, since normally a site should be fully loaded in less than a second.
This negative feature is largely due to the fact that Jumla creates a huge number of folders on the FTP server, which has an extremely negative effect on the speed of indexing the resource, and if the user uses a stunted GPRS or EDGE channel, loading the site becomes an unrealistic event.
A little bit about attendance ...
WordPress is completely devoid of this drawback. Hosting for it can be bought much cheaper. This is due to the fact that it may not have high characteristics: the engine will still provide an acceptable page loading speed in the browser.
Finally, with a really high traffic to the site, the engine may not stand it. Of course, when organizing the work of a banal home page, you are unlikely to have problems, but "in the future" it is worth considering.
If you think that in the “Joomla or WordPress” dispute we took the side of the second engine exclusively, then this is not so. Jumla is a great option in many cases, but you need to remember some of its weaknesses.
A bit about WordPress ...
Everyone who knows anything about website development is aware of this engine. Note that in recent years, WordPress has experienced a real “boom” in prevalence, as it is ideal for creating blogs and personal sites.
However, on this examples of its use are not even completely exhausted. There are millions of sites on the Internet on the Press, and not all of them are blogs. You can even find online cinemas, although they are not a good role for this engine. Recently, there are even a bunch of commercial sites, many of which are located in the TOP of search engine results.
In general, there are tons of options, but WordPress templates are more often used to create personal blogs. By the way, this particular use case of this engine is considered the most optimal. We will try to explain in more detail the reason for this recommendation.
Some cons
Surprised that the “debriefing” we start with the minuses of WordPress? It's just that there are not so many of them, and therefore it is best to discuss them first.
The huge disadvantage of the engine is its weak security. And these are not empty words: it has been repeatedly noted that the percentage of hacking of precisely those sites that use WordPress as a CMS is high. In general, protecting your portal in this case will have to be puzzled by yourself, and we would not recommend saving on this issue.
Other negative traits
Are there any other negative aspects of WordPress? Installing and configuring this system is simple, but the same cannot be said about the possibilities of making fundamental changes to the site structure.
If you carefully read the part of the article that talked about the advantages of Jumla, then you will probably be able to independently guess the disadvantages of its competitor. Firstly, WordPress is much more complicated in terms of deep site customization. To make something more complicated than standard operations, you will need considerable experience and knowledge in PHP. In difficult cases, you will have to turn to specialists, since you yourself are unlikely to achieve anything.
However, more cons as such were not noticed. Now we would like to raise the issue of the positive features of this engine. There are much more than negative ones.
WordPress Strengths
To begin with, WordPress templates can be edited almost by a schoolboy. Their entire device is intuitively clear; you don’t have to deal with anything for a long time. In any case, the average user copes with this for ten minutes at most.
WordPress itself, themes for which in incredible quantities are already on the developer's site, is very concise and beautiful. Yes, it’s difficult to make something special out of it, but “out of the box” is an almost fully functional and functional system.
In addition, the average blog load time rarely exceeds one and a half seconds. If the Internet connection speed is normal, it can be within 0.7 seconds. The thematic forums have a lot of advice on speeding up the site even more, so if you wish, you can make it almost lightning fast.
Main conclusions
So Joomla or WordPress? Which engine is better for creating a site? Once again, back to the beginning of the article. Then we just said that we could not give any definite recommendation. If you carefully read the article, then you yourself can understand it.
"Jumla" is good for volume and content sites. There are some problems with the number of folders and the speed of downloading content, but this is fully offset by the huge functionality of the engine and the ability to create really large portals.
In general, in terms of functionality as such, Joomla is significantly superior to the competitor. Many webmasters believe that it is ideal for beginners, as it allows you to "climb under the hood" by adjusting at your discretion literally all the parameters of your page.
On the other hand, many people like WordPress. User comments suggest that a serious blog can be built even by a person who had no prior experience in creating web pages at all.
WordPress is ideal for blogs and small homepages. It is characterized by high download speed and simplicity, but for serious projects you will either have to buy a paid template, or improve your knowledge of PHP yourself.
In conclusion
Thus, to answer the question: “Which is better, Joomla or WordPress?” - It is not possible, since it is for everyone to decide for himself, based on his own needs.
Currently, there is a tendency for most masters to use WordPress. This is due to the ease of installation. There is practically no need for some complicated initial settings, many free themes, and the community is quite active.
As for the last point, we did not accidentally mention the community. If you have any problems, then you can always hope to find a solution on the developer forum. Of course, for this it is preferable to know English at least at an intermediate level.
In addition, patches and updates are constantly being released for this platform that successfully fix previously found errors. As a result, this CMS is very stable and reliable. However, Joomla is only slightly worse in this regard, but its security is much higher.
In a word, you only need to choose! Fortunately, both of the systems we examined can cope with almost everything.