What is WordPress?

WordPress is probably the most popular CMS on the market. What started as nothing more than a simple blogging platform has evolved into an incredibly powerful and flexible website builder.

It’s a great platform for beginners and there are a number of tutorials and forums that can help to clear up any issues you might have.

 Benefits of WordPress

1. Very Easy to Install

WordPress is incredibly easy to set up. You can literally have a site up and running in about five minutes. As a plus, most existing hosts offer one-click installs.

2. Highly Customizable

WordPress has thousands of themes and plugins that make customizing your site as simple as clicking a button. Since it’s so popular, many developers have created free plugins and themes that enable you to create a professional-looking site with zero budget.

3. Great Community

If you run into any issues setting up or customizing your site, there’s a support community of millions who are there to help you. Plus, almost every theme or plugin you’ll utilize has a dedicated team of developers behind it.

What is Joomla?

Joomla is an incredibly flexible CMS and is currently being used as the backbone for several of the largest sites on the internet. It comes in a close second behind WordPress in terms of the number of sites powered by the CMS. All kinds of websites can benefit from using this framework from non-profits to businesses, corporations to schools, and more.

However, Joomla is more technical and not as friendly to beginners. This means that you can build out some incredibly powerful custom features, but if you’re not great with coding, you might want to take another route.

Benefits of Joomla

1. Can Create a Social Network

Joomla lets you easily create social networking websites from scratch. You can create a social network by using another CMS, but it isn’t as quick and painless.

2. Easy eCommerce Store Creation

Along with social networking websites, Joomla makes it easy to create eCommerce stores. Sure, you can hack together an eCommerce store with WordPress, but Joomla makes the process dead simple.

3. Medium Level of Technical Ability Required

For the level of power and customization Joomla provides you with it’s not overly technical. It does take a little more technological confidence than WordPress, but not enough to scare beginners away.