Joomla Pros and Cons

It's simply the best tool for complex websites where you need heavy customization. It allows you to manage everything without the need of installing plugins like Wordpress. I've been using this since version 1, so I belive I have more than 20 years of experience using this daily and I've seen how it has evolved.

It is very easy to install and implement.

When you find developers that really care and really improve their components, you can rely on them. But you have to find them first! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lacks an e-commerce tool like woocommerce. Customer support is forum based, pretty poor and vague when you have specific problems. Queries are duplicated multiple times and you get error 500 with big sites. Databases aren't optimized and the assets table messed everything up.

Security is vulnerable and you have to strenghten it from the server side. Some plugins might break the whole thing and there's no safe mode and you have to go into server and manually delete things.

Most developers focus on Wordpress and not in Joomla, so sometimes the components or plugins from the Joomla versions are a bit behind compared to Wordpress versions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Joomla have a lot of flexibility with its powerful development framework and smart to use cms system. You can also build easy apps ( extensions ) with many Joomlas CCKs example https://www.seblod.com/ or free Joomla component builder https://www.joomlacomponentbuilder.com/ Its also easy to have design templates/frameworks for rapid website building example https://www.joomshaper.com/page-builder and where you have a lot of many great large/small extensions example https://www.regularlabs.com/extensions/advancedmodulemanager/tutorial to modify/visulize your system to whatever you like. Joomla is also owned by its community and is 100% free with no encryptation whatsever.. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Joomla have no commercial marketing and promoting company backing it up with sales, marketing and pr like other CMS that have an owner of the trademark and started this companies like Wordpress, Drupal etc so it can not be sold to anyone though all people that work with Joomla and its contribution will be owned by the community. Joomla have an organisation that protect that right for the community Open Source Matters https://www.opensourcematters.org/ Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The functionality and working of the software and its tools is out standing. It gives amazing control over the web data and customization abilities are great in this.

The number and variety of features or plugins in this software is offering is outstanding at this price range.

A proper documentation and dataset management is done amazingly in this software which is best in market and this all function is done automatically in time saving.

Joomla provides multiple types and designs of templates to develop and make web marketing contents to publish.

All the web work and activities can be managed with this one tool and it make the work for many users so simple and easy.

Also there are even the editing tool also offered in this to customize and make changes to the asset easily and quickly before uploading to page. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The variety of features available in this platform sometimes make it difficult and confusing for the new users to use and take longer time to get use to it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The structure of the database, the holistic functionality of the CMS without the need of any external plugin. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The documentation is lacking hard. Some things for the developer are very hard because there are a lot of unexplained or unnecessary steps to be made. It is highly needed from someone to make a tool for headstarting a component etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

You have far more flexibility in page control than wordpress allows and once you've learned the different naming protocol for components, plugins etc it's a doddle. Also more secure than wordpress. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Although there is a massive library of add-on components available it's not as large as Wordpress. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. Use friendly - Non Technical person also handles the backend of their website.

2. Features are based on whether we are using any application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

If we use big files and themes for our website it will create issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have been using Joomla for around 16 years, and it is the most comprehensive and scalable solution for content management (CMS).

First, I used it for my business, and in a couple of weeks, I managed to create an entire business site of the best quality using almost free components. I only paid for the template and SEF component for marketing

Then a few years later, I made my own Live Chat component, which was on the market for almost 10 years. The Joomla marketplace for extension was terrific, and people worldwide got my extension free of charge. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

From my developer point of view, I dislike how fastest they change the Joomla API, they change everything very fast, and most of the time, the components need to be updated to this new version and this implied to build almost from scratch. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I use and like :

- The number of native features, although this number may confuse a beginner

- Guided tours since version 4.3.4

- The power of the ACL but a bit difficult to master

- Documentation

- Joomla standards ensuring consistency of third-party extensions

- The ease of multilingual management

- The easy way to present and switch between several different templates Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

-The range or variety of extensions that are sometimes restricted

-Sometimes difficulties to find advice for specific encoutered problems Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As a beginner web management this had great ease of use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some processes were harder to find a solution for (broken web links) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Support Articles are in great abundance and so are Joomla extensions that act as site plug-ins to spruce up sites! In no time, a customized and functionally effective site can up and forward facing to meet specific needs. Also, I enjoy the streamlined editor that doesn't require coding experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's the trade-off that comes with an open source (free) CMS like; that is a dedicated support team is not in your corner like other paid options. Also, navigating Joomla is less than ideal at times and overall, it is quite a clunky platform on the back end. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.