10 GOOD reasons to choose Joomla over WordPress for your next website.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 มิ.ย. 2024
- Learn why professionals all over the world choose Joomla to create their websites.
00:00 - Intro
00:51- 10. Clean Administrator Interface
01:32 - 9. Customizable Access Levels
02:12 - 8. Translations
03:08 - 7. Accessibility
03:28 - 6. Object Oriented Programming
04:17 - 5. Database Structure
04:41 - 4. Extension Price
05:14 - 3. Structure
05:42 - 2. Menus
06:41 - 1. Templates
07:29 - Finishing Comments
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Disclaimers:
The logos of the CMS projects used in this video belong to their respective owners. Screenshots of certain websites are used merely for demonstration. We do not endorse or disprove any of their content. - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
I work for many years with both wordpress and joomla for my customers. I can underline all your statements 100%. Most problems definitely occur with wordpress. A plugin battle like no other. Not to mention this mess and the loading time of wordpress pages. People get blinded by all the shiny wordpress templates. At some point they sink into chaos and contact me. This is then one of the few advantages that I can think of regarding wordpress! 😀 Thank you for your explanations on this topic!
Thank you for your comment! Good one! No wonder WordPress is all about the $$
Ya....lol....make it so hard to use you will pay a developer. Ha....and an infinite number of 3rd party proprietary Saas companies with a plugin....let's pay and pay and pay some more! None of that is open source, you don't even control your users data, a third party does on most of the promoted plugins. WP got really sad in recent years
Love Joomla ❤ I have been using it since more than 10 years, constantly getting better and better....
It's really great to see so many people like Joomla for the obvious reasons. We have a growing user base since the release of Joomla 4. Still we need people to test the patches and help develop the platform. So if everybody have some spare time please test some patches or join one of the Joomla teams and help with other tasks like translation or documentation. Regards, Rick Spaan President of The Dutch Joomla Foundation.
This is a great list. I sometimes struggle to explain the differences between the two and you outline some key points. Your description of Wordpress Themes is spot-on. I've updated templates on Joomla sites many, many times over the last 15 years, without ever having to rebuild the site! Money saved over 3+ years is SIGNIFICANT. Great cost-savings for my clients, time-savings for me, and allows for overall better customer service.
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Nice overview. Thanks for mentioning Joomla's database! Most CMS users don't know that, how information is stored in a database determines part of your website's performance.
It certainly does! And it improves enormously the administrator experience if they ever have to work directly on the database. Thank you for your comment.
when you learn Joomla once, you know Joomla forever! very true
Thanks for your comment!
It is actually the first time I saw a meaningful comparison.
Thanks!
10 excellent points in Joomla's favour - thanks for making this video!
Thank you too! Please email me at mavrosxristoforos@gmail.com to receive your gift of Joomla extensions worth 50€ !
Hey Christopher, another point: Joomla has excellent Lighthouse results by default.
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I've found the ACL aspect of Joomla to be criticial for several sites that I've worked on. Excellent video.
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Great video! you'ure right Joomla! is the most flexible solution fon the website creation
Excellent, and you didn't even mention SEO. I find that one of the biggest myths is that people think Yoast is the silver bullet, but whenever I see a WordPress site, Yoast is installed but they haven't actually taken any action, rendering it useless. Moreover, Joomla can do much of Yoast in the core, meaning you don't need a third party extension.
Indeed, Joomla is developed in a way that forces you to structure your website for better SEO. That's what I mention about menus. However, the point of this video is exactly what you said about Yoast and WordPress in general. I'm not saying that they are not excellent systems. I'm saying that their presentation makes people think that the WordPress way is the only way, and that is not true.
Ευχαριστώ Christopher, your video is just awesome and the world need more quality content like yours. Joomla 4 is a major version for the web industry , let's be loud and proud about it. Shared ans subscribed :)
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Excellent video!
I think the speed of joomla 4 should go at no1. Template overrides and custom fields give so much versatility! Total control! You are spot on in the pricing point! Extensions for other cms can drive you crazy for money. Joomla is perfect for non profit organisations also!
Thanks Petros. I'm going to discuss that on an upcoming video. As promised, you've won 50€ worth of Joomla extensions. Send me an email at mavrosxristoforos@gmail.com to receive them!
Great video and list Christopher! Thank you!
Nice video Christopher, after i explain to my potential client advantages of joomla they allways choose to migrate their WP website to Joomla. Only this year i moved 8 websites and 2 are ongoing.
That's very good! I hope this video helps you further strengthen your point!
Amazing video with a large dose of truth, Christoforos.
Thank you so much for spreading the Joomla! into the tech world.
Thank you Yiannis!
Great video - thanks. I have been using Joomla for about 10 years and always thought it superior to WordPress which I found messy and complicated. I hope more and more developers go the Joomla route.
Same here! Thanks for your comment!
nice one. looking forward for the next video!
Well done presentation Christopher! Thank you for taking the time to put this together and making it available for everyone.
I'm glad you like it! I've been meaning to do this, a long time! Joomla is worth it.
Excellent video! I'll be sharing this every time I'm asked why use Joomla! Great work.
Thanks! That's great. You've also won 50€ worth of Joomla extensions! Email me at mavrosxristoforos@gmail.com to receive your gift!
Excellent! Thank you 👍🏽😊🙏🏽
Great video! Excellent! Thanks
Very good review, thank you.
OMG so fast. I was hitting that pause button alot! Thanks for the presentation.
Thank you for your feedback! Switching that template in 20 seconds was hard! 😃
Gerat work! Congratulations! Very good summarized, You showed that anyone, any level can use and make good projects by using Joomla. If you are a developer, you can use it for a custom development project, if you are a sitebuilder, you can use it for any kind of small or middle sized website project, anyone can create a multi-language website too!
Thanks! Indeed, especially the last part about multilingual websites is far beyond other CMSs!
Thanks for the good work you are doing regarding Joomla. I have subscribed to your channel because I am sure I can learn a lot from you.
Thank you for your good words! I'll try to live up to that!
Hi Christopher I'm from Thailand I've been using Joomla for a long time since Mambo. This is a Great video.
Thank you very much! If you liked it, feel free to share it with your colleagues!
Great video. When I looked at the database of a WordPress site, I was shocked at how the table structure was organized.
So did I. Very counter-intuitive. Joomla has always promoted database record normalization. With this comment you've also won 50€ worth of Joomla extensions! Email me at mavrosxristoforos@gmail.com to receive your gift.
@@mavrosxristoforos thanks, I am already a happy user of MyShortlist :)
camacho
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I have been using Joomla for almost 20 years and it is the most secure CMS I've ever used. All the 10 reasons you mentioned about Joomla are spot on. If anyone is considering or thinking of what CMS to use, look no further because Joomla is the answer
That is awesome! I'm on my 14th year now using Joomla and developing extensions!
Hi Christopher, absolutely brilliant video and you've hit the nail on the head perfectly! Great work. I'll be sharing this every time I'm asked why use Joomla! 🙌
Thanks Russell! I appreciate it. Please email me at mavrosxristoforos@gmail.com to receive your free bundle of Joomla extensions, worth 50€!
@@mavrosxristoforos ah thank you! I will do
Great video! Joomla is way easier than WordPress to maintain
Woww!
This is so timely. Anybody who asks why i use Joomla, here's why...
Joomla for came with all the bomb❤
Thanks for your comment! Go ahead, show them why!
I believe there is at least one more important factor which is speed. Joomla websites are fast and lightweight in front-end and back-end. On the contrary even the back-end of WordPress is annoyingly slow. But to be honest I believe that the difference of Joomla and WordPress is not 5, 10 or 50 reasons. WordPress is a famous CMS but Joomla has become the absolute professional tool for creating advanced websites in the most easy way.
Thank you for your comment. I will be discussing that in an upcoming video, titled "10 common misconceptions about Joomla!" Stay tuned!
Ya sounds like new Joomla king on YT.
No king here, just a dev like any of us. Thanks for the comment though!
You nailed it. To me it sometimes seems as if the Wordpress followers are a cult. I love Joomla, no plugin battle, fast, nice and tidy and easy to use!
Indeed, everything is so tidy and organized! I think the Joomla menu structure is the foundation of all this, which is far better than WordPress menus.
I used Joomla since it was called mambo up to version 3.6. I finally got fed up with all the security vulnerabilities and switched to WordPress, knowing of all its downsides but betted on the larger userbase for better security, only to find out that it was actually worse as crucial security updates started to break theme and plugin functionality every couple of years. I have now stopped using any CMS for the frontend and use them occasionally only as a backend behind a whitelist only firewall, and building the frontend purely in JavaScript.
I have heard a lot of people do that. To be honest, it sometimes depend on the project. If you need user access, you're better off using Joomla instead of making your own session-handlers, because that's just re-inventing the wheel. On the other hand, I also have a couple of one-page websites that are HTML-only. Generally speaking though, I think that Joomla has entered a golden era after version 3.5.
With Joomla 4 and the API you can easily use Joomla backend and then use JS front ends if you want to.
@@SquareballoonCoUk the only problem being that you rarely find templates with pure JS front end, and most extensions wouldn't handle that very well.
Clean and predictable admin interface/workflows for sure! And the power and flexibility of menus. Joomla is light years ahead of WP just on these two points. Thanks for the breakdown!
And will probably stay ahead, since WP offers minimum reusable MVC structure... Thanks for your comment!
@@mavrosxristoforos keep up the good work. Caught your presentation at JUG London. Impressive amount of effort and thought. 😊
@@fj8623 thanks for being there and for everything you do in the Joomla community!
Because Wordpress is the most used CMS i always have to explain why i choose Joomla!. This is a very good list to use as a business case
I'm glad you say that. That's the purpose of it! What we need people to understand is that "most used" doesn't necessarily mean "better".
Thanks a lot for the brilliant comparison. Would you consider making a video on the easiest way to convert WordPress site to Joomla site please?
Thanks for watching! That's an excellent idea. I'll do my best.
The most important thing is to get cms to install and work first😂
Can't really tell if you're referring to Joomla or Wordpress here, but for anyone having trouble installing Joomla, I've made the following video: th-cam.com/video/BK_YpYblMtA/w-d-xo.htmlsi=Oxo6lgCw9r-vAQic
very interesting.
Thanks!
Great video. Could you do another, less technical one, for showing to non-technical clients?
Thanks Gillian, I could definitely try to!
What a fantastic request
I have been using Joomla CMS for a few years. I was wondering about this whole new updated Joomla 4 and now 5. Why is it that such amazing, brilliant Joomla developers and programmers, founders of open source Joomla software, cannot develop an import utility for those whom are using Joomla 3 to import their website content, database, template and hyperlinks into the new Joomla environment correctly?
Well, to be honest, Joomla migrations have always been hard. However, what makes them so hard is usually the extensions and not the core. Migrating from Joomla 3 to Joomla 4 is much easier than what it used to be, and there's a lot of effort to run extensive checks before the migration. That's why you should always pick your extensions carefully. At mavxr.com, we thrive to issue frequent updates in order to provide the best experience for our users.
The problem of joomla is not the sites owners, it's the developers that prefer Wordpress. J4 for the end user (site owner/manager) is really great.
There's something to improve then: Attract more talent into Joomla.
I'm with Joomla 🔥
Me too!
There are also some things that Joomla is still better than WP
Feel free to comment and mention them here!
@@mavrosxristoforos Yes, of course! It will be soon
Had no idea Joomla still existed
Hahaha it does and it's thriving!
Joomla the best
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But there are not much resources to learn Joomla.
Joomla has less resources compared to WordPress. However, a great amount of work is being done by projects like the manual.joomla.org/ page and recent books on how to build a template or an extension.
@@mavrosxristoforos Can you please suggest me some uptodate resources for joomla 5. Majority of the resources available are for Joomla 3.x. For someone who is getting started what would be an ideal roadmap?
I would say MVP is much more powerful than OOP though... Isn't Wordpress also OOP nowadays?
Not nearly as much, though! WordPress is probably the paradigm of functional programming, in general!
you got the 11th reason apparently :D I properly dislike working with WP@@mavrosxristoforos
Επιτέλους ένας άνθρωπος πού λέει τά πράγματα όπως είναι... Χωρίς νά επιλέγει κατι επειδή απλώς είναι πιο γνωστό... Μία χαρά τά είπες φίλε μου... Καί αυτό πού λένε ότι τό wordpress είναι πιο βολικό πραγματικά απορώ .. πιο μπερδεμένο νέο σύστημα δεν έχω δεί.... Πετάνε μέσα ένα plugin τό οποίο είναι τα πάντα καί Template καί function's καί ότι θέλει ο καθένας... Μετά μπαίνω μέσα εγώ ο προγραμματιστής καί άντε βγάλε άκρη τί έχει κάνει μέσα ο άλλος...
Ευχαριστώ για το σχόλιο! Έτσι ακριβώς αισθάνομαι και εγώ. Το WordPress μπορεί να προσφέρει τεράστια ευελιξία, αλλά προκαλείται συχνά ένα χάος από τις πολλές διαφορετικές προσεγγίσεις που έχει ο κάθε προγραμματιστής.
Όλα καλά Χριστόφορε αλλά αν δε μας κάνει τη χάρη ο Φώτης να βγάλει update στο k2 την κάτσαμε... Για μένα χωρίς το k2 το Joomla είναι τίποτα....
Ευχαριστώ για το σχόλιο σου! Το δουλεύει, είχε γράψει ότι το καλοκαίρι θα είναι έτοιμο. Πιθανόν να έχει καθυστερήσει λίγο. Παρ' όλα αυτά, το Joomla 4 έχει πάρα πολλά πράγματα στα άρθρα που κάνουν τη χρήση του πολύ βολική. Κι εγώ στο 3 είχα διάφορα δικά μου πάνω, αλλά τώρα ετοιμάζομαι να χρησιμοποιήσω περισσότερο κάποιες λειτουργίες του core.
I understood nothing.
That's ok! Feel free to ask, here or via email at me@mavrosxristoforos.com! Thanks for your comment!
The impossibly fast clicking through screens during the dialog is useless and distracting.
Thanks. I'll keep that in mind. It was just that sometimes I wanted to demonstrate a 2 minute action in less than 20 seconds.
Joomla is good for a simply FastFood Menú ? I dont want to buy online, only want for show my Food Menu and show the location too. I already have my HTML code
Yes, of course. Joomla could give you a good amount of control over changing your information without editing HTML. However, you would have to convert your existing HTML into a Joomla template and then add the rest into content, like articles and modules. It is something you can do on your own if you have the time and already know HTML.
Jassos, Christopher 🙂
This video is good. Good luck with starting a new era of videos related to Joomla on your channel!
Btw, a little recommendation is to replace Greek letters to Latin in channel alias.
I mean this one:
th-cam.com/users/ΧριστόφοροςΜαύροςfeatured
It converts into loong name when you copy the URL to the clipboard:
th-cam.com/users/c%CE%A7%CF%81%CE%B9%CF%83%CF%84%CF%8C%CF%86%CE%BF%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%82%CE%9C%CE%B1%CF%8D%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%82
Regards,
Eugene Sivokon
Thank you for the recommendation. Back in 2007, when I created the account I used a Latin username. When Google bought TH-cam, it used my name on Google+. Now that aliases have been introduced I have changed it to mavrosxristoforos, but it seems not to be effective everywhere yet...