Joomla Reviews

The downloadable extensions, free and paid. You can make your site function exactly how you want it to with as little effort as you want.

Troubleshooting problems or changing core files. It's easy with the forums but probably the hardest thing I have to do.

Joomla can be used as is, or with some code knowledge, you can do a lot of enhancements and customization.

Joomla allows our two person department to seem like more. It also enables me, with limited code knowledge, to build a beautiful site with extra add-ons built by programmers.

It's generally faster than wordpress, more secure and with more features built into the core.

Slightly steeper learning curve than the easiest CMS platforms

Both simple and complex sites with sophisticated functionality

Easy to install and use, lot's of components and plugins

Always seems to be a new version to update to

I build websites using Joomla

I use and like :

- The number of native features, although this number may confuse a beginner

- Guided tours since version 4.3.4

- The power of the ACL but a bit difficult to master

- Documentation

- Joomla standards ensuring consistency of third-party extensions

- The ease of multilingual management

- The easy way to present and switch between several different templates

-The range or variety of extensions that are sometimes restricted

-Sometimes difficulties to find advice for specific encoutered problems

- Complex instutitionnal multilingual site with more than 1000 pages

- ecommerce with Hikashop

- Complex selective access to sections or pages of the site

- Easyness for implementation and undestand first steps to create sites (documentation, enbedded help, guided tours)

- First pages of a new site made available in very short time (hour)

The features that is provided by joomla is awesome for content management system for publishing web content and websites

No there are nothing to dislike with joomla. Instead loved the software

I think for content management system is is one of the best software for web content and publishing websites

I have been using Joomla for around 16 years, and it is the most comprehensive and scalable solution for content management (CMS).

First, I used it for my business, and in a couple of weeks, I managed to create an entire business site of the best quality using almost free components. I only paid for the template and SEF component for marketing

Then a few years later, I made my own Live Chat component, which was on the market for almost 10 years. The Joomla marketplace for extension was terrific, and people worldwide got my extension free of charge.

From my developer point of view, I dislike how fastest they change the Joomla API, they change everything very fast, and most of the time, the components need to be updated to this new version and this implied to build almost from scratch.

Joomla allowed me to create an enterprise website in a short time with a small budget. The best thing was the simple way to make the site; I wasn't an expert on website building and was simple to make one.

- The best general purpose content manager system, for novice and advanced users, very high learning curve and comprehensive documentation.

- Advanced frameworks like Gantry and Yootheme PageBuilder.

- Support for Pagebuilder like Quix and SP Page Builder.

- Version 4 does not have javascript animations.

- It does not have support for multiple frameworks, to implement various templates from various developers, for example include Gantry and Helix Ultimate.

- It does not have support for javascript frameworks to produce applications like PWA or SPA.

- It does not have an integrated backup copy.

- Complete menu options and management, I can change the item without deleting the item from the menu.

- I can assign language associations for a better organization.

- Assignment of modules and metadata makes it the best system of modules in the world and in the world market.

- The pagebuilder's make rapid development of websites.

Joomla is quite easy to deploy, configure, and setup. It doesn't take you very long to start creating your first web page. I like how it supports complex themes and the ability to add-on modules, plugins, payment gateways, etc. The possibilities are endless with what you can do with it.

Updates are a pain, they can break your site at times. They can break themes and other modules. There has to be a better upgrade method for this platform, it's the reason a lot of Joomla powered sites are still on old versions.

Low-cost entry point to web site hosting and development. It's hard to beat free! While some of the addons and modules may cost money, they are optional. It's also a great way to start learning about a CMS and how to manage a CMS system.

Joomla's learning curve is straight. We can easily manage and design our content to make it available online. Easy contact form setup which provides the lead directly to mail or we can download all the records as xlsx, pdf etc.

The only dislike about Joomla cms is only the uploading of files in a single. There is no option for a bulk upload, or we have to use a third-party service. Sometimes the searching for modules is a bit hectic.

We have made our business presence online by uploading content to the Joomla website and inquiries through the online portal directly received by mail for conversions.

Joomla have a lot of flexibility with its powerful development framework and smart to use cms system. You can also build easy apps ( extensions ) with many Joomlas CCKs example https://www.seblod.com/ or free Joomla component builder https://www.joomlacomponentbuilder.com/ Its also easy to have design templates/frameworks for rapid website building example https://www.joomshaper.com/page-builder and where you have a lot of many great large/small extensions example https://www.regularlabs.com/extensions/advancedmodulemanager/tutorial to modify/visulize your system to whatever you like. Joomla is also owned by its community and is 100% free with no encryptation whatsever..

Joomla have no commercial marketing and promoting company backing it up with sales, marketing and pr like other CMS that have an owner of the trademark and started this companies like Wordpress, Drupal etc so it can not be sold to anyone though all people that work with Joomla and its contribution will be owned by the community. Joomla have an organisation that protect that right for the community Open Source Matters https://www.opensourcematters.org/

Please read and understand how Joomla work to get it right from the beginning bcs its so much stupid pr agains Joomla from its competitors that dont like that Joomla can replace their system and work better.

Your business needs for a blog for many to many users where you want to have better control when your system grows and you want to have 100% control of that future development right from the start without having to change system bcs your business and needs grows. You can test the ACL control here example https://demo-extensions.perfectwebteam.com/administrator/index.php where you can check how you can manage all the control of who can use, view, change etc all content, users etc of all Joomlas components installed.