Joomla
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Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular web site software available.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
Country of Origin
United States
Platforms
- Self-Hosted
- PHP
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- POX published news article about Joomla
Joomla 5.3 released with improved HTML email templates, URL & file management, and moreJoomla has unveiled version 5.3 of its open source content management system, bringing a host of ne...
- POX published news article about Joomla
Joomla 5.2.0 released with new articles module, SEO opimizations, and much moreJoomla has launched version 5.2.0 of its content management system, introducing a range of enhancem...
- POX published news article about Joomla
Joomla 5.0 released with new features, security enhancements and speed improvementsJoomla, the renowned free and open-source content management system (CMS), has announced the releas...
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Open Source Matters, Inc. Licensing
Open Source (GPL-2.0) and Free product.Written in
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Joomla is a true CMS that can handle any kind of website project.
This used to be the go-to CMS a few years ago, and it is very well supplied with themes and plugins and stuff. But nowadays there are better CMS out there that are more intuitive to use and just do a plain better job overall. It does a lot, but nothing really good. Also not very easy to create templates for. I suggest trying out Contao instead.
After I did the following installation, I read about
Softaculous .. which may make set up of numerous Web Building sites much easier.. You might want to try it first.
How to Install Joomla on Windows 10: https://ultahost.com/knowledge-base/install-joomla-windows recommend XAMP which include PHP MySQL etc. How to Install XAMPP: https://ultahost.com/knowledge-base/install-xampp-windows/ With XAMPP, you can run Joomla on your local machine, develop your website, and then deploy it to a live server when you’re ready.
I started using Joomla after having my sites on WordPress for years. Its similar to WP in many ways but enough different that I prefer Joomla. I've found good help and a good community with Joomla. Don't try to learn by using example sites as most of the books do. That makes it really confusing. Just start using the software, adding some posts and read about how the backend works. Core Joomla has everything you need to get started so don't start looking at plugins thinking you will need those right away. Good luck!
easy, simple and easy to customize but for a larger webiste and with that, more content, it gets really difficult to maintain. Not what I wanted.
I think the problem with this open source cms is that it is easy to create your website and play around as pleased but when your website gets bigger and reaches a larger audience and you start to actually make money from it, it becomes quite hard to keep up with the updates and changes.
I do think is better than wordpress but I still don't think this is meant to work with large websites. The amount of themes and plugins are good but it's not as easy as you would expect. Maintaining a large site could be quite complex.
I'm running my own large sites with Joomla. I don't find it is any harder for large sites than WordPress is/ was. The only issue I have with both Joomla and WordPress and likely every other CMS on a database is not being able to re-use post ID#s. I mind the gaps, even though it is kind of silly and I'm the only one who sees them really.