What is better joomla or wordpress
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Hi, i am sites in joomla and wordpress but i am interested to find out what people think of joomla and wordpress and which is the better platform for websites, joomla or wordpress.
I have read a lot about how wordpress is better than joomla then i have also read how joomla is better than wordpress so i would just like to know what people on here think.
would love to see some examples of good websites in either wordpress or joomla
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Hi Tim,
We recommend Wordpress for all non ecomm sites and Joomla/Magento for the ecomm ones. Wordpress with all their plugins is very SEO friendly as well as a user friendly interface in the backend .
We tried it for e-comm sites as well however had a very bad experience when the client wanted to customize the e-comm solution on the wordpress platform.
Cheers,
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We switched over from joomla to wordpress for the following site which we are still working on. http://www.cheapflightsgatwick.com/
We are still working on the site but we have used it as a learning curve where we bought a template and then we have customized it which we are still doing.
I have been contemplating switching our site www.in2town.co.uk to wordpress but not really sure if it is wise or not.
We are hiring a developer to update the template in the next couple of weeks and i have been talking if we should stay with joomla or move to wordpress and if we did move to wordpress would we lose all of our link juice and pages that we have, which we have thousands of them.
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Tim,
We only use Wordpress for all of our non-ecommerce sites. It is so much more than just a blogging platform/cms now. It is very robust with millions supporting the Wordpress community and building plugins. There are also many premium plugins and themes that are excellent right off the shelf and wordpress can be completely customized so that it doesn't look like a template at all. With the right plugin it is very SEO friendly and most themes are responsive that are coming out now and so it is great for mobile. I used Joomla before we switched to WP and we haven't looked back. Just try it and you will love it too!
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The answer is ... it depends.
If you're going to be writing blogs, then Wordpress is hands-down better because it has a ton of plugins that make writing blogs (and all the tasks related to them) super easy. It also can be integrated into a "regular"site transparently. Here's an example of a WordPress blog embedded into our main site:
www.morningsiderecovery.com/blog/
On the other hand, if you do no blogging at all, then Joomla has much to offer and is also pretty easy to use. You can find many templates online and build a perfectly lovely looking site quite easily. Here's an example of that approach:
All of that having been said, there are companies that run very large sites that have almost zero blog features but are built with WordPress as the underlying structure.
Another aspect to consider is who will be managing / maintaining your site. If you anticipate hiring for this, you might want to see where the labor pool is more plentiful and where it is easier to get skilled staff who can maintain your site.
Best of success to you in your new effort.
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