People always ask what they should use when they are wanting to start up a blog and I always tell them WordPress is the best option out there. Normally these conversations are through emails and they simply thank me and move on, but a couple of weeks ago we had this same conversation on the Google+ Church Tech community where at least one other person was adamant about Joomla being the better service and he made some great points.
Here are some facts from the infographic below that you need to know if you are trying to decide which to invest in:
- WordPress is by far the more widely used of the two CMS platforms with WordPress over 6 times more used.
- Joomla is a complex system that requires a lot of learning, but is actually better for bigger sites that WordPress cannot match up against.
- WordPress is the blogging platform out there, easy to setup, SEO oriented, and quck to start up, but anything more than blogging is not what it was designed for.
[HT Churchmag | Image via Red Giant]
You know where we fall, WordPress. But what about you?
Eric Dye says
No comparison. 😛
seventy8Productions says
For blogging, for sure!
David Miles says
Hand a Joomla site off to a client to let them manage and customize, then do the same with a WordPress site and see which one is more confusing. I was an avid Joomla user, but it is awkward and cumbersome to manage while WP (at least seems) much lighter and more intuitive.
WordPress is actually very adaptable to serve many roles and far more than a blogging platform. I spend a lot of time deep in it’s inner code and really admire the way they chose to do things. But best of all, the Codex for developers is unmatched in my opinion and just has an awesome support community backing it. These things considered, I’m a WordPress loyalist. But that’s just me…
seventy8Productions says
I am a WordPress loyalist too, but somethings were simply not made for it and while on a smaller scale, you can do anything Joomla does, large scale the optimization is very visible.