WordPress vs. Joomla

There are two Kings of Content Management System Joomla and WordPress for those who would like to create strong websites without thinking about the technical aspects. The fundamental difference between WordPress and Joomla is that while WordPress is a blog, Joomla is a web- or community-type platform. Both differ in many areas and can extend beyond their capacities. Both have a wide group of users and are free to use.

Check out the Joomla vs. WordPress infographic below to help you choose between these two Content Management Systems when designing your company website.

Joomla

• Build-in on MVC web application framework
• The framework released in 2005
• Andrew Eddie was the founder
• 5.1 Version
• GNU GPL v2 license

Features

Core features

• Extensive user permission
• Follows MVC structure
• Inbuilt extensions for making site multilingual
• Integrated help system
• Menu manager

For developer

• Menu manager
• Cloud storage APIs
• Web services
• System features

System requirements

Software – PHP min 5.3.10s

Database – MySQL min 5.1

SQL server min

10.50.1600.1

PostgreSQL min 8.3.18

Web server – Apache min 2.0

Mgnix min 1.0

Microsoft IIS min 7

WordPress

• The free open-source blogging tool
• The framework released in 2003
• Matt Mullenweg was the founder
• 5.2 Version
• GNU license

Features

Core features

• Simplicity
• Flexibility
• Built-in comments
• SEO optimized
• Publish with Ease
• Full standard compliance
• Easy theme system
• Contribute

For developers

• Plugin system
• Custom content type
• Theme system
• Latest libraries
• Application framework

System requirements

Software – PHP min 5.2.4

Database – MYSQL min

5.0.15

MariaDB

Web server – Apache