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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.

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  • FreeOpen Source

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  • Self-Hosted
  • PHP
3.3 / 5 Avg rating (9)
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  1.  Support for Themes

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  1.  Modules
  2.  Ad-free
  3.  Support for MarkDown
  4.  WYSIWYG Support
  5.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
  6.  Dark Mode

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Comment summary: Joomla is praised for its extensibility and suitability for complex projects, offering numerous plugins for customization. Users note that Joomla is more robust than WordPress for larger sites, offering better security. However, there are concerns about its complexity in maintenance, especially for large scale projects, and its interface may not be as intuitive as other modern CMS. Compared to Contao, Joomla's code is seen as less professional, and its ease of use declines with larger websites.
Top Positive Comment
mariediveja
Mar 1, 2024
0

Joomla is a true CMS that can handle any kind of website project.

Top Negative Comment
DanMan
Jan 19, 2013
3

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.

TBayAreaPat
Sep 15, 2024
0

After I did the following installation, I read about Softaculous icon 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.

laurabrown
Aug 14, 2019
0

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!

ParisFitts
Feb 13, 2019
0

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.

chandrao
Feb 11, 2019
1

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.

markcarandini
Jan 22, 2019
2

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.

laurabrown
Aug 14, 2019

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.

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What is Joomla?

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. Best of all, Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone.

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  • Developed by

    US flagOpen Source Matters, Inc.
  • Licensing

    Open Source (GPL-2.0) and Free product.
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  • Rating

    Average rating of 3.3
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  • Supported Languages

    • English
    • Afrikaans
    • Arabic
    • Basque
    • Belarusian
    • Bulgarian
    • Catalan; Valencian
    • Chinese
    • Croatian
    • Czech
    • Danish
    • Dutch
    • Esperanto
    • Estonian
    • Finnish
    • French
    • Georgian
    • German
    • Greek
    • Hebrew
    • Hungarian
    • Indonesian
    • Irish
    • Italian
    • Japanese
    • Kazakh
    • Khmer
    • Korean
    • Latvian
    • Lithuanian
    • Macedonian
    • Norwegian Bokmål
    • Pashto, Pushto
    • Persian
    • Polish
    • Portuguese
    • Romanian
    • Russian
    • Serbian
    • Slovak
    • Spanish
    • Swahili
    • Swedish
    • Tamil
    • Thai
    • Turkish
    • Ukrainian
    • Urdu
    • Vietnamese
    • Welsh

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Our users have written 13 comments and reviews about Joomla, and it has gotten 347 likes

Joomla was added to AlternativeTo by dialogues on Jun 5, 2009 and this page was last updated Apr 10, 2025.