WordPress VS Joomla!

Compare WordPress vs Joomla! and see what are their differences.

WordPress

WordPress, Git-ified. This repository is just a mirror of the WordPress subversion repository. Please do not send pull requests. Submit pull requests to https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop and patches to https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ instead. (by WordPress)
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WordPress Joomla!
919 28
18,745 4,643
1.0% 0.3%
9.9 9.9
6 days ago 7 days ago
PHP PHP
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 only
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

WordPress

Posts with mentions or reviews of WordPress. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-19.
  • Building a High-Performance Website with Next.js and WordPress
    3 projects | dev.to | 19 Mar 2024
    Creating a high-performance website is essential in today’s digital age. Speed, efficiency, and a seamless user experience are the cornerstones of successful web development. This article explores how combining Next.js with WordPress can achieve these goals, providing a robust solution for developers looking to elevate their web projects.
  • Leveraging WordPress as a Headless CMS for Your Astro Website: A Comprehensive Guide
    5 projects | dev.to | 21 Feb 2024
    WordPress as the backend headless CMS, offering a versatile content management foundation.
  • The Rise of Visual Editing in Headless CMSes
    1 project | dev.to | 16 Feb 2024
    Open source CMS WordPress and Drupal introduced WYSIWYG editors and template customization to empower independent publishing but page building was still largely code-driven.
  • Mastering Behat Testing: A Comprehensive Guide for Implementing BDD in PHP Projects
    1 project | dev.to | 6 Feb 2024
    While specific CMS platforms were not directly listed in the sources as explicitly supporting Behat, it’s widely known in the development community that Behat can be integrated with several PHP-based CMS platforms. Drupal and _WordPress _are notable examples of PHP CMSs that support Behat testing, thanks to their flexible architecture and the availability of various plugins or modules that facilitate integration with Behat. For instance:
  • How to secure a WordPress website in under 1 minute using a simple trick?
    1 project | dev.to | 28 Dec 2023
    WordPress is the most popular CMS(Content Management System) among bloggers. The same fact has made WordPress more vulnerable to attacks by hackers. Especially for authentication vulnerabilities such as brute-force attacks.
  • why has reCaptcha by BestWebSoft been removed from wordpress.org?
    1 project | /r/Wordpress | 11 Dec 2023
    I recent WordFence scan identified the plugin reCaptcha by BestWebSoft as a "critical" vulnerability adding that it has been removed from wordpress.org. Where can I find information as to why it was removed from wordpress.org or why it is a critical security vulnerability?
  • Where can I learn to make a Website for "Video Game Guides" ?
    1 project | /r/web_design | 9 Dec 2023
    The Genshine Impact database site looks pretty custom, can't tell if there is any CMS involved. You could start with the tried and tested WordPress. I built my gaming site on WordPress, it's not as fancy as the site you linked but it has plenty of options and flexibility to build all sorts of sites.
  • HELP me please! I think I messed up.
    2 projects | /r/Wordpress | 8 Dec 2023
    Almost every host has one-click WordPress installs these days using either cPanel's WP Toolkit or Softaculous, so that should be a non-issue. You never have to visit wordpress.org if you go that route; the host is handling that for you. Watch Ferdy Korpershoek's videos on YouTube for tutorials on getting started with WordPress. Personally, I would not go with his hosting recommendations, however. I like iWebFusion, but there are other good recommendations over at /r/webhosting
  • question relating to hosting
    1 project | /r/elementor | 7 Dec 2023
    I am on wordpress (commerce plan ) £55pm. wordpress.com is what I am using, however I have heard of wordpress.org also which requires more technical knolwedge which I am willing to invest in over the next 12 months.
  • I just received this in my email from patchman vulnerability scanner, should i be worried? I’ve never heard of patchman before.
    1 project | /r/Wordpress | 7 Dec 2023
    wordpress.org requires that user input should be sanitized and validated, and output should be escaped, to prevent mischief by bad actors. This mantra is embedded in current wordpress.org plugin guidelines. Unfortunately older plugins may not comply, leaving them vulnerable. They always were vulnerable, but what's changed is the light has been shone on the issue by Patchman and others. Publicly available code can be scanned by both good and bad actors to detect where malware can be injected.

Joomla!

Posts with mentions or reviews of Joomla!. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-05.
  • Joomla 5 Upgrade on new 4.4 website fails code 0 "libraries/src/Event/AbstractEvent.php on line 225"
    1 project | /r/joomla | 20 Oct 2023
  • Joomla! 4.3 on OpenBSD 7.3: Install
    6 projects | dev.to | 5 Sep 2023
    Joomla! is one of popular PHP content management systems (aka CMS). It is good for portal-like websites as well as blogging platforms. The first version was released in 2005 and, after long progress, the latest major one was done two years ago (on 2021-08-17).
  • What is a Headless CMS: a Visual Guide
    1 project | dev.to | 31 Aug 2023
    CMSs have long been the backbone of digital content creation and delivery. Traditional CMS platforms, including open-source solutions like WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal, have been popular due to their ease of use and integration of content creation and presentation.
  • What is a Visual Headless CMS (aka Visual CMS)?
    6 projects | dev.to | 17 Jul 2023
    This post will be discussing a cutting-edge concept known as a Headless Visual CMS, or Headless Visual Content Management System. This is not your ordinary CMS; we are not referring to platforms like WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Sanity.io, Contentful, or anything like that. Instead, we're talking about a fusion of the best headless CMS features and the simplicity of site builders like Wix or Squarespace.
  • Looking for CMS recommendations based on specific requirements (Vue, forced Google OAuth)
    2 projects | /r/webdev | 15 May 2023
    Website: https://www.joomla.org/
  • Getting your first Software Development Job
    1 project | dev.to | 29 Jan 2023
    To help illustrate my point, here's a short rendition of my personal career trajectory. I started out studying Marine Biology. Then taught ESL. Then worked in non-profits in Mexico and Central America. Then became really interested in building online businesses to related to the travel industry. So while living in a small jungle community in Honduras, I decided to teach myself how to make websites. I chose PHP as my first programming language to learn (with CSS and HTML) using the Joomla framework. Living in a small town, which just received dialup internet and lacked running water, I wasn't exactly in tech-hub. But I dedicated the hours and spent many long days (and nights) wrestling with the concepts of a CMS, learning CSS (for IE6 no less) and figuring out how to make a really ugly website. Then an amazing thing happened. Word got out in the town I was living in that I knew how to make websites, and suddenly owner of the internet cafe I had been living at for the past 4 weeks asked me to make them a website. So I did! Then they referred me to others in the town who needed websites and soon I had a side hustle that was allowing me to learn and earn at the same time.
  • 3 Best Alternatives to WordPress as a CMS
    1 project | dev.to | 2 Dec 2022
    1. Joomla
  • Low code solutions for devs to consider.
    9 projects | dev.to | 15 Nov 2022
    Content/learning management systems, such as Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla, Magento and Moodle are fullstack web applications that you can configure and customize for course websites, blogs and e-commerce. Many if not all of these options are popular and open source.
  • Is Joomla dying, and if so, where are developers going?
    1 project | /r/joomla | 20 Jun 2022
    You are complaining that the oldest PR (https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pull/21775) is 4 years old but you didn't talk about the very important truth you already know: it was a code dump, the contributor showed zero interest in making any improvements from the time they made the PR. Nobody can merge it if it's not worked on and as you can see the leadership DID ask the contributor in January if he's interested in addressing the problems. Zero feedback since.
  • Joomla-Cms - Home of the Joomla! Content Management System
    1 project | /r/github_trends | 30 May 2022

What are some alternatives?

When comparing WordPress and Joomla! you can also consider the following projects:

Wagtail - A Django content management system focused on flexibility and user experience

Backdrop CMS - Backdrop is a full-featured content management system that allows non-technical users to manage a wide variety of content. It can be used to create all kinds of websites including blogs, image galleries, social networks, intranets, and more.

Bludit - Simple, Fast, Secure, Flat-File CMS

Elanat - Elanat is ASP.NET Core CMS. Elanat is add-on oriented framework. The Elanat kernel is designed to create an add-on for it as easily as possible; the Elanat kernel contains a variety of add-ons; the structure of Elanat allows the programmer to create a new web system containing different types of add-ons.

Ghost - Independent technology for modern publishing, memberships, subscriptions and newsletters.

Grav - Modern, Crazy Fast, Ridiculously Easy and Amazingly Powerful Flat-File CMS powered by PHP, Markdown, Twig, and Symfony

Omeka - A flexible web publishing platform for the display of library, museum and scholarly collections, archives and exhibitions.

Pico - Pico is a stupidly simple, blazing fast, flat file CMS.

Kirby - Kirby's core application folder

TYPO3 - The TYPO3 Core - Enterprise Content Management System. Synchronized mirror of https://review.typo3.org/q/project:Packages/TYPO3.CMS