WordPressはインターネット上のすべてのサイトの43％以上を動かしていますが、市場にあるオープンソースのコンテンツ管理システム（CMS）はWordPressだけではありません。JoomlaやDrupalのような利用可能な他の人気のあるソフトウェアのオプションがあります。
これら3つはすべて、多くの共通点と多くの重要な相違点を持っています。それぞれが長所と短所を持つユニークなサイトビルダーです。
この投稿では、WordPress対Joomla対Drupalを比較し、どれがあなたにとって最良の選択かを探ります。
注：WordPress.comホスティングサービスではなく、WordPress.orgを比較しています。WordPress.orgとWordPress.comの違いについては、こちらのガイドをご覧ください。
WordPress、Joomla、Drupalの共通点
ウェブで最も人気のある3つのCMSはすべて、テクノロジー、哲学、コミュニティというキーワードにおいて共通点が多い。
- WordPress、Joomla、DrupalはすべてGPLの下でライセンスされたフリーでオープンソースのソフトウェアです。フリーソフトウェアの詳細については、WordPressはなぜ無料なのかの投稿をご覧ください。
- これら3つはすべて、主にPHPで書かれている。
- これらはすべてデータベース管理システムとしてMySQLをサポートしている。WordPressはMySQLのみをサポートしているが、JoomlaとDrupalは他のデータベース管理システムをサポートしている。
- これら3つはすべて、サイトの外観にテーマとテンプレートを使用し、機能を拡張するためにプラグイン、モジュール、または拡張機能を使用します。
- オープンソースソフトウェアとして、これらはすべてコミュニティ主導のプロジェクトである。
共通点は多いが、異なる面も多い。
例えば、コア・ソフトウェアに何を含めるか、モジュールやテンプレートをどう扱うか、セキュリティにどう対処するかなど、それぞれ異なるポリシーを持っている。
この違いはユーザーやサイトの作り方に大きな影響を与える。
とはいえ、WordPress、Joomla、Drupalの比較を見て、あなたのビジネスに最適なサイト構築プラットフォームを選びましょう。
使いやすさと初心者への配慮
サイトを作っている人のほとんどは、ウェブ開発者でもデザイナーでもプログラマーでもありません。ただサイトを作りたいだけの一般ユーザーなのだ。大多数のユーザーにとって、使いやすさは最も重要な要素です。
WordPress
WordPressは5分でインストールできることで有名です。ほとんどのWordPressホスティングサービスプロバイダーは、WordPressのワンクリックインストールも提供しています。これにより、新規ユーザーは数時間ではなく数分でWordPressのブログやサイトを始めることができます。
WordPressの投稿後のユーザーエクスペリエンスは、JoomlaやDrupalよりもはるかに優れています。ユーザーは、投稿やページを作成したり、外観やテーマのカスタマイゼーションを開始するためのメニューがあるシンプルでクリーンカットされたユーザーインターフェースを見ることができます。
Joomla
JoomlaのインストールはWordPressほど迅速ではないように見えるかもしれませんが、それは非常によく似た手順を持っています。それとは別に、多くの共有ホスティングサービスプロバイダは、同様にJoomlaのためのワンクリックインストールパッケージを提供しています。
インストーラをインストールした後、ユーザーはWordPressほど簡単ではないコントロールパネルにたどり着く。サイトをクリックしてカスタマイズするためのメニューが多すぎるのだ。
Joomlaのファンは、JoomlaはWordPressよりもずっと強力だからだと言うだろうが、私たちはそれが真実だとは思っていない。
ドラパル
Drupalのインストールは、JoomlaやWordPressと似ています。パッケージをダウンロードしてアップロードし、インストールスクリプトを実行するだけです。
Drupalはディストリビューションも提供しています。これらは、特定のタイプのサイトを作成するためのモジュールや設定があらかじめパッケージ化されたDrupalのバンドルです。
全くの初心者にとって、インストール後の体験は少々複雑だ。ユーザーはサイトの変更方法を見つけるのが難しいでしょう。Drupalはコンテンツを追加する方法は一目瞭然ですが、外観を変更したり、コンテンツ以外の要素を追加したりする方法はあまり目立ちません。
優勝WordPress
テーマとアドオン
これら3つの人気CMSはすべて、ソフトウェアの機能や外観を拡張する方法として、テーマやプラグイン／モジュールが付属している。
テーマは、サイトの外観やユーザーからの見え方をコントロールします。プラグインやモジュールは、CMSのアプリのようなものです。
このカテゴリーにおける3大CMSソフトのパフォーマンスを見てみよう。
WordPress
WordPressでは、ユーザーはテーマを使ってサイトの外観を変更することができます。WordPressにはいくつかのデフォルトテーマがプリインストールされています。
いつでも外観ページから新規追加ボタンをクリックし、WordPress.orgの公式テーマディレクトリから無料のWordPressテーマをインストールすることができます。
無料テーマとは別に、StudioPress、Astra Themes、Elegant Themesなどのようなサードパーティのテーマショップによって開発された、より多くのプレミアムWordPressテーマを見つけることができます。これらは有料のテーマであり、プレミアムサポートオプションが付属しています。
WordPressの真のパワーはプラグインにある。WordPressの公式プラグインディレクトリには、無料で利用できるWordPressプラグインが59,000以上あります。また、プラグイン開発者が提供する有償サポート付きのプレミアムプラグインを購入することもできます。プラグインがWordPressをいかに素晴らしいものにしているか、必携のWordPressプラグインのリストをご覧ください。
Joomla
WordPressのように、Joomlaにもテンプレートとエクステンションがあります。eコマースストアの作成からメールの管理まで、何でもできる素晴らしいエクステンションがあります。
しかし、これらのテンプレートや拡張機能の量はWordPressほど多くない。そのため、完璧なテンプレートや完璧な拡張機能を見つけるのは少し難しいかもしれません。
初期設定では、Joomlaにはユーザーが管理エリアからエクステンションやテンプレートを検索してインストールする権限がありません。エクステンションには “ウェブからインストール “機能を追加できるエクステンションがあります。しかし、テンプレートの場合、ユーザーは手動でテンプレートを検索し、URLを追加してインストールする必要があります。
ドラパル
Drupalにもテーマやモジュールの入手に関する同じ問題がある。ユーザーは自分のサイトを離れ、追加したいモジュールやテーマを検索し、プロジェクトのzipファイルのURLを見つけなければなりません。最後に、モジュールやテーマのページにURLを入力してインストールします。
何でもできるモジュールがあり、定期的に新しいモジュールが追加される。それでも、WordPressに比べるとモジュールの全体的な量は不足している。
勝者WordPress。
オプション設定
ヘルプやサポートオプションの設定は、初心者ユーザーにとって非常に重要です。新しいソフトウェアを試すときには、本当に〜してもよいですか？ヘルプさえあれば大丈夫です。
WordPress
WordPressには強力なユーザーコミュニティがあります。公式サポートフォーラム、ドキュメント、ハンドブック、codex、Slackチャンネル、Stack Exchange、WPBeginner Engage Facebookグループ、そしてウェブデザインと開発に関するインターネット上のほとんどすべてのフォーラムでWordPressのヘルプを見つけることができます。
WPBeginnerのようなサイトには、何百ものチュートリアル、動画チュートリアル、初心者レベルのWordPressユーザー向けの投稿があります。WordPressの無料サポートを求める方法はたくさんあります。
無料のサポートオプションとは別に、WordPressの有料サポートを受ける方法もある。
WPBeginner Pro Services、Seahawk、Codeable、Upwork、Fiverrなどのオンラインプラットフォームは、WordPressのプロフェッショナルを雇うことができる場所のほんの一部です。
WordPressの絶大な人気のため、WordPress開発者を見つけることは、中小企業や個人にとって簡単で手頃な価格です。
Joomla
Joomlaは、WordPressと同様に、大規模で非常に有用なコミュニティを持っています。Joomlaのサイトには、初心者にとって貴重なリソースとなる広範なドキュメンテーションがあります。よりインタラクティブなサポートのために、ユーザーはフォーラム、メーリングリスト、ユーザーグループなどに参加することができます。
地域社会の支援とは別に、第三者のリソース、有料のトレーニング、開発者機関が役に立つ。
WordPressとは異なり、Joomlaのために手頃な価格の専門家の助けを見つけることは非常に困難です。Joomlaの開発、トラブルシューティングや支援のために開発者や専門家を雇うには、WordPressよりもはるかに多くの費用がかかります。
ドラパル
Drupalには、ファンやユーザーの積極的なコミュニティがあります。WordPressやJoomlaのように、Drupalのコミュニティサポートオプションをすべて見つけることができます。広範なドキュメンテーション、サポートフォーラム、メーリングリスト、ユーザーグループ、ircチャットルームがあります。アドバイスや無料のヘルプを得るにはすべて良い場所です。
Drupalは、ユーザーと専門的なDrupalサービスを提供する開発者や企業をつなげようとしています。あなたはDrupal Marketplaceでそれらを見つけることができます。
しかし、WordPressと比較すると、Joomlaと同様のDrupal開発者は非常に高価です。
優勝WordPress
ローカライゼーションと多言語サポート
日々作成されるサイトの多くは、非英語サイトや多言語サイトである。初心者の多くは、多言語に対応できるCMSや、異なるロケールや言語に対応しているCMSを探していることでしょう。
WordPress
WordPressは、多言語サイトを構築するための優れたプラットフォームを提供しています。最初から多言語をサポートしているわけではありませんが、WordPressの多言語サイトを簡単に作成できる優れたプラグインがいくつかあります。
WordPressは57以上の言語に対応しています。新しい言語はWordPressの管理エリアからクリックするだけでインストールできます。
ほとんどの人気テーマやプラグインは多言語でも利用可能です。テーマやプラグインの開発者は、パッケージを他の言語に翻訳するための協力を有効化しています。
これらすべての努力により、WordPressは非英語または多言語のサイトを構築するのに最適なプラットフォームとなっています。
Joomla
Joomlaは、エクステンションをインストールすることなく、多言語サイトを処理するために箱から出してすぐに使用できます。単に言語マネージャに移動し、コンテンツの言語を追加し、サイト上で多言語コンテンツの作成を開始します。
また、管理インターフェースには多くの言語の翻訳が用意されており、管理エリアから簡単にインストールすることができます。
ドラパル
Drupalには英語以外のサイトや多言語サイトを扱うためのビルトインサポートがあります。ロケールとコンテンツ翻訳モジュールを有効化する必要があります。その後、Drupalの設定セクションからサイトと管理者インターフェースの言語を追加できます。
勝者同点 – 3つとも多言語サイトをサポートし、多言語で利用できる。
セキュリティ
サイトのCMSを選ぶ際、セキュリティは非常に重要な要素です。インターネット上のほとんどのサイトは、セキュリティの脅威にさらされています。
WordPress
世界で最も人気のあるCMSであるWordPressベースのサイトは、しばしばハッカーに狙われます。しかし、WordPressは非常に安全なコードでビルトインされており、セキュリティの脆弱性に素早く対応します。
WordPressには自動更新機能もあり、新しいセキュリティパッチがあるとWordPressサイトが自動的に更新されます。
WordPressサイトは、自動バックアップ、2要素認証、その他のWordPressセキュリティのベストプラクティスによって、さらに安全に保護することができます。
WordPressテーマやプラグインの更新を表示するビルトインメカニズムもある。これにより、テーマやプラグインの開発者は、セキュリティ上の脆弱性に迅速に対応することができる。
Joomla
Joomlaは、セキュリティに関してはWordPressと非常によく似ています。Joomlaはセキュリティの脆弱性に有効化し、素早くパッチを当ててくれます。しかし、サイトのメンテナンスや更新のインストールはユーザー次第です。
Joomlaサイトをバックアップするために利用可能な拡張機能があります。WordPressと同じベストプラクティスに従うことで、Joomlaサイトのセキュリティを強化することもできます。
ドラパル
Drupalはセキュリティに対して非常に真剣なアプローチをとっている。Drupalは、セキュリティの脆弱性が発見され、パッチが適用されると、自身のサイトで公開しています。Drupalサイトが頻繁にハッキングされるという話を聞かないので、Drupalはより安全だという認識がありますが、それはJoomlaやWordPressほど人気がないからかもしれません。
勝者同点 – 3つとも適切なセキュリティ基準に従っている。
結論
Drupal、Joomla、WordPressはすべて素晴らしいコンテンツ管理システムです。DrupalとJoomlaはWordPressよりも多くのビルトイン機能を備えています。
しかし、WordPressはその使いやすさ、巨大なグローバルコミュニティ、プラグイン、テーマでそれらを凌駕しています。開発者でないユーザーの多くは、JoomlaやDrupalよりもWordPressの方がはるかに簡単に構築できると感じるでしょう。
WordPressには59,000以上のプラグインがあり、（コードを書かずに）好きな機能を追加したり、好きなタイプのサイトを構築することができます。
総合優勝WordPress
お気に入りのCMSを使い始める方法
WordPress、Joomla、Drupalのどれを選んでも、ウェブサイトを作るにはドメイン名とウェブサイトのホスティングが必要です。
幸運なことに、これら3つのトップCMSソフトウェアの必須要件はすべてよく似ているため、すべてのトップウェブホスティングサービス会社がサポートしています。
私たちはBluehostまたはSiteGroundのいずれかを使用することをお勧めします。どちらも世界最大級のホスティングサービスで、WordPress、Joomla、Drupalサイトのホスティングに特化しています。
より多くの推奨事項については、初心者のための完全なウェブホスティングガイドを参照してください。
WordPressをこれから始める方は、初心者向けのサイトの作り方ガイドをご覧ください。
この投稿が、WordPress vs Joomla vs Drupalを比較し、あなたのサイトに最適なCMSを見つけるのにお役に立てば幸いです。また、最高のメールマーケティングサービスと中小企業に最適なライブチャットソフトウェアの比較もご覧ください。
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mohadese esmaeeli says
Certainly, I have no intention of getting involved in any CMS war. However, based on my experience (as I worked with Joomla for 3 years), WordPress can provide better feedback in any field for large websites. Typically, and proven, more than 60% of websites worldwide use WordPress, while less than 15% use Joomla. In general, WordPress has a beautiful world for itself. Of course, before choosing a content management system, we must consider the nature of the website. Still, given the amazing advancements that WordPress has made and the plugins developed by major global companies, WordPress can now be used for any type of website.
Jiří Vaněk says
I tried all three editorial systems and from my own experience wordpress is good especially for beginners to learn how to work with the website and understand the basic principles. WordPress seems to me to be the most versatile and most importantly, in the event of a problem, it has a huge user base who are happy to help solve the problem for free.
Priya Sinha says
Thanks for the post, nice information about WordPress vs. Joomla vs drupal which one is better… it is really helpful. I will recommend it to others.
WPBeginner Support says
Glad you found our comparison article helpful!
管理者
Tom Hardy says
Great information! Based on my experience, in my opinion, WordPress is the easiest content management system that is highly customizable. On the other hand, Drupal is complex, but it is best for creating advanced websites; it is also a very secure CMS. Joomla lies in between these two CMSs on customizability, ease of use, and security fronts.
WPBeginner Support says
Thanks for sharing your opinion
管理者
Duane Hamann says
I think this article is right. For the unskilled guy looking to set up a respectable managed website, WordPress is the best option. But it has limits that Joomla have overcome. For someone skilled in CMS development, Joomla rates #1 for it’s flexibility with custom developed components, it’s far more technical so to the guy looking for something decent and easy to understand, WordPress win. That however, doesn’t shine light on WordPress when compared to Joomla. All it says, for those with no developing skills, WordPress is the best. For those who develop PHP applications, Joomla is more adaptive and flexible, so it all depends on the individual skills.
Vast says
I have created numerous sites and have used all three contenders. I find Joomla the most versatile and agile to use especially for larger complex sites.
But even for small sites, Joomla is super easy to use.
I think WordPress is more suitable for blogging and for commenting and it’s fine for smaller sites. It’s just not as easy to fine-tune as Joomla.
Ronald says
if you want something not complex and limited for a web page use wordpress.
If you want something complex and not limited to developing websites use Drupal.
Drupal is better!
Okanime says
How to know a guy “good with computers” posing as a web designer – when he tells you he will build your site with a wordpress CMS. If you find Joomla hard to use or maintain, seriously you should stop using any form of electronic device. It is your obligation to do us all that solid.
Mark says
A website about WordPress says that WordPress is the best … What a surprise…
Jiten says
I was using WordPress since 2010. Being a web designer I always design and deliver website in WP but some years before some wabsites got hacked. Remember once your website hacked there is only one solution to remove infection completely “DELETE EVERYTHING” because once you attacked then no plugin will clear everything.
Now I’m switching from WP to Joomla.
Okanime says
Joomla is beautiful. I don’t understand why it gets a bad rap. Joomla 3.x is now miles better than WordPress in every aspect.
Duarte says
Comparing Drupal and WordPress is like comparing a car to a boat, or apples with onions. They both best in their own scope. Depending on various factors you should use one or another but this should be for another article.
I use both and for me one thing that WP is not so good are the plug-ins. It’s true that WP has thousands of great plug-ins, but most of them are repeated in functionality and others are fremmium, meaning you have to pay if you want the full product. Also they tend to be turnkey solutions with no scalability in mind. And the same happens with themes.
Drupal has a strict policy of non repeated contributed modules and they are all free (Open Source), no fremium modules or themes are allowed. The modules in Drupal are more like bases so you can develop your functionalities with your own code or with other modules. A good part of drupal modules don’t have visible outputs they only serve as backend connections between functionalities.
Can’t talk about Joomla. No experience in it.
Mark says
While WP may have by far the biggest range of themes and plugins, most of their themes are pure repetitions and duplications, boring in general and created with very little creativity used.
The same goes with WP plugins. To make this even worse, you have to argue with an army of ross-blaming plugin developers, each of them assuring your broken website is the result of “another’ plugin installed, nothing to do with them.
Ever heard of the saying; “too many cooks destroy the dish”?
That applies a 100% to WP.
I’d never use WP, not even if it was the last remaining CMS on the planet. Full of bugs, incompatible plugins, huge security vulnerabilities, lifeless designs, and a million of incompetent code hackers all pretending they are “professional web-programmers”.
Sam says
I totally agree with you.
Paul says
I’ve never had any security issues with WordPress, and regarding “lifeless designs” – if you have the relevant skills (or hire a competent designer) the only limit to how your WordPress site looks is your imagination.
Stick with well established (and supported) themes and plugins, and you can’t really go wrong.
Bizzo says
You can make a fairly nice looking website with WordPress, however what becomes evident fairly quick is that it’s a blog and it’s nearly impossible to get past that. If you want a blog, great! If not, it will take an enourmous amount of time and energy to tailor it to be something other than a typical blog.
By the way, someone mentioned WNBA being wordpress. Note, NBA.com is Drupal.
Nikola says
I can agree that WordPress is most popular than Joomla, but not that is better.
The popularity of WordPress is due to negative campaign being waged against Joomla.
The internet is overflowed with articles like this one where some people talking absolutely lies and nonsense’s about Joomla.
Regards
Fred says
For those who want to migrate from Drupal to WordPress, they can use the free tool FG Drupal to WordPress
PATRICK MUSUMINA M. says
WordPress offers more use interface than Drupal and Joomla
Niels Klint says
Absolutely wrong
Nikola says
I agree.
Alex says
Not for a client. We always develop custom themes using different CMSs and the clients always prefer WordPress to edit their site. Because it’s easier for them to understand due to the user interface.
Frank Yusuf says
Wp is a good content management system it simplifies web design with it’s diverse themes and pluggins. in the past web design used to be a herculean task but with the coming of wordpress code became poetry.
greg says
WordPress does an excellent job at offering a GOOD PLATFORM to build a MULTILINGUAL site. It does NOT SUPPORT multiple languages out of the box, but… Yes, awesome platform!
Rahul says
wow… after reading this tutorial i should set up wordpress for my blog
waqas says
i am using joomla and then yt frame works in joomla. i think for advance sites joomla is better due to ease in creating new module positions and other customizations with themes and modules as well. although for small blogs wordpress is better. but in joomla if you are pro i think you can create even more good blogs in joomla
Joris says
I agree, thousand more options for many different blog types on one site without any coding. Try that in wordpress and you need to create multiple themes or use pagebuilders.
For wordpress you need allot more knowledge for customizing settings in blogs.
Out of the box and media is wordpress i winner. Multilingual is not in wordpress and WPML is a pain in the ass
Darren says
I’ve used a number of CMS’s over time and by far the worst one I ever found was WordPress. I’m very surprised that it came up top and even more surprised that it came up high for security.
I’ve found a number of stupid security issues with wordpress – for example if you don’t know what your doing and build a site someone can easily add some GET variables to the end of WordPress sites and easily use that to retrieve the username of the site owner – ok the password is still hidden but any hacker is half-way there.
I normally use Joomla for web design as I find it easy, but then again I spent many years learning C++ at University and have converted that knowledge into PHP.
As for Drupal, I’m just learning bits of Drupal at the moment and I have to admit some bits of it look really good. The only bad thing I find is the cache when trying to design a template the cache does get in the way a bit. Also it seems strange to have sub-themes off from main themes.
I recently came across a nightmare with the adaptive theme as I wanted to modify the menu code slightly, so I copied what I thought was the menu code (it was adaptivetheme_menu_tree and adaptivetheme_menu_tree (you’d guess that is what makes the menu seeing as it’s title contains the word MENU!!)), it turned out to do nothing – I don’t even know what that section of code does. Instead I found it mixes the primary menu up with adaptivetheme_links which is also used by multiple other functions – and there wasn’t even any proper way to split them so I had to figure it out by querying what the heading ID is and if it’s primary_menu it must be the menu I’m after.
Unfortunately though I’m in a company that has a website based on Drupal and thinks Drupal is the best thing since sliced bread so I have to try and work with it. Hopefully the more I use Drupal the more I’ll figure it out – I’ve already created a shortcut link to the sites/all folder as that was bugging me having to go through all those directories just to get to where I can edit (in Joomla it’s just straight in, into the templates folder and you’ve got all your themes and overrides waiting there for you!)
Heidi says
Hi Darren. It sounds like you’ve got a great deal of Joomla experience and this is a bit off-topic… However, I’ve got a Joomla 1.5 site that needs to be updated to a responsive theme for a nearby non-profit. I’m more of designer than a web programmer. Any suggestions on the best way to do this — or any suggested do’s and fonts before I get started?
Thank you.
Syahir Roslan says
As far as my experienced with Joomla, it’s really hard if you’re upgrading from Joomla 1.5 or 2.5, it’s not impossible but it will succeed with many errors so i’m suggesting that it’s best to migrate the content and use the latest Joomla as its support more responsive themes and modules. And also WordPress is the worst and didn’t try out Drupal yet.
Darren says
Hi Heidi
I’ve not used Joomla 1.5 in many years, most of my sites are based on Joomla 3.x as that is possibly the most responsive of them.
Your best bet if you want to make a site more responsive is to look into the Boostrap API and include Bootstrap CSS as quite a lot of responsive menus and columns can be created with bootstrap and they automatically convert to look good on both mobile phones and desktop screens.
As for going from one to the other – I would strongly suggest making a backup of your entire site before starting (including the SQL database), and maybe building the new site in a test location first before over writing the existing site (for example create it in a temporary folder first, make sure it all works and then move the site to the main folder – and don’t forget to change configuration.php with the new location details – and if you’ve used a different SQL server change the SQL server details too in configuration.php although if you just built it in a separate folder on the same host the SQL settings shouldn’t need altering).
Also look at using the latest edition of Joomla – at present that is 3.6.2 – as that gives you the latest version with the latest security issues fixed and future upgrades should be easier, as of Joomla 3 they have made the upgrading process quite simple and easy to retain existing data, but going from 1 to 3 may mean you’ll have to copy and paste most of the original site if you want it to have the same data.
Scott... says
Of course WordPress came out on top, its a WordPress beginner site, you didn’t really expect the review to be objective. It’s basically a sales pitch where only the good points are elaborated.
Brian says
I use both WordPress and Joomla for a long time now and Joomla, while having some nice features over WordPress, suffers heavily from the lack of good extentions (esp. free ones). Sometimes it takes me hours to find the right one and make it work which never happens in WordPress where I can search and when I find, there is a good support and documentation for it. Not to speak that some features don’t work so well in Joomla, like uploading pictures to gallery can be a real pain. Therefore, making a Joomla site look and work the way you want is more a matter of luck than effort, however, when you get there, it works well, even a bilingual support is great. Also, using publishing extentions like K2 can complicate things, a lot. I’d definitely recommend WordPress to beginners and Joomla to more advanced users and experienced website designers.
Niels Klint says
“Therefore, making a Joomla site look and work the way you want is more a matter of luck than effort, however”
Absolutely wrong – but the more opportunities there are in a system, the more you must be able to exploit the opportunities
Petr says
I use to build sites with WordPress and Joomla! but mostly when I finished website built with WordPress, client asked for some new specific feature which was not easily implemented in WordPress (sometimes it was not possible) so then I reworked the site in Joomla!. Even WordPress is popular, simple and easy I mostly use Joomla! because of its complexity and option to easily and powerfully customize the code (as there are great and modern code techniques which can be easily extended). But I like them both – WordPress for really simple websites (blogs) and Joomla! for complex websites.
bill says
You said “Almost every website on the internet is vulnerable to security threats.”. I would say you should revise that statement and say EVERY website is vulnerable to security threats. If it has an IP address, than it’s vulnerable.
Bucur says
I’ve used all big three systems (WP, Drupal and Joomla) in a corporate (big) environment.
From a *user* point of view, I hated Drupal with the heat of a thousand suns. I found it clunky, restrictive (and not in a good way) and just plain bewildering at times. Of course, I admit I was biased coming to it because I’d already used J! and WP extensively and also another “real” enterprise CMS and was expecting a similar experience.
And, as a someone who used to work for a govt dept that adopted Drupal – it wasn’t because it was secure, it was because “the White House uses it” and it was “free”, and both those reasons are so flawed they are silly. *eye roll*.
After my experience using Drupal on big internet and intranet sites, I would never consider using it seriously again. Out of the box and even after extensive modifications and add-ons, it couldn’t do timed publication, you couldn’t work on a draft version of a page (and save the draft) and so many other niggly user end problems that it just made my website life miserable.
After using WP for the last few years though, it’s my go-to system for publishing sites, mainly because it is so easy to teach other (non-technical) users how to use it and security can largely be addressed if a bit of care is taken from the beginning.
Paddy says
Hi, I’ve been a front/backend programmer for for personal projects for years -and I’m now thinking of starting to create websites for clients. Allowing ‘non techies’ the ability to update the websites after delivery is all a bit new to me. It only really started to sink in after making a website for a friend and her casually saying ‘how do I update it?’. I am right in assuming that WP, J! and Drupal are suitable for professional website delivery for clients? If it’s partly a case of them being free, are there any others that you would recommend to use, albeit at a cost?
K Johnson says
Hmm… a site called wordpress beginner declaring wordpress the winner in every category except one. Not very objective IMO.
Brooks says
When you look at functional scalability and the architecture of each of the reviewed products, there is no comparison. None.
WP was initially designed as a simple blogging tool, and was then revised to handle CMS-like features:
– The various popular plugins to handle basic editing, structure and extended CMS features frequently overlap and conflict with each other.
– The structural scalabiity of WP pages and blogs is a function of plugins, not the underlying WP architecture.
– It is painfully apparent that a lot of the admin, design, etc. features of WP were added after-th-fact. The underlying blog-centric architecture makes it very difficult to add CMS capabilities in a way that is intuitive.
Drupal, on the other hand, was designed from the bottom up to scale functionally. The obvious trade-off is the learning curve.
But, in my experience, the lost productivity working with WP’s weak architecture (esp when attempting to implement more complex functionality) or dealing with conflicting 3rd party components, exceeds the Drupal learning curve.
So, perhaps a better qualifier when doing this comparison would be:
– If you need a simple blogging tool, WP is probably the most appropriate.
– If you need a robust CMS tool, then Drupal is the most appropriate.
IMO, Joomla is a compromise solution – not the easiest for basic blogging and web design, but not the most robust for CMS functions.
Just sayin…
Keith says
The problem I’ve too often experienced with WordPress is that, while it clearly has more plugins than the others, so many of them, even premium ones, are developed with a ‘yeah, this sort of meets the requirement’ mindset, and ‘If they want something to do what they really want, they’ll have to pay us more money.’ I see this time and again with a current WordPress/WooCommerce solution I’m working on for a client. They want it in WordPress. I’m going to give it to them in WordPress, but it shouldn’t be this frustrating.
Mustafa says
Thanks for this comparison very useful.
Edujobsbd says
I think WP is better than three.
SREERAJ says
Thanks for the article.
I really forced to add this comment, WordPress is WORSE in terms of security and clearly Drupal is the winner there.
Vladus Wizard says
Hello. This article is subjective opinion of author. All of that CMS have pluses and minuses. I noone can answer this question of what CMS to use. It depends on specific case.
Fordiy says
For professional purpose, must be Joomla. I was so disappointed when I first install wordpress. Actually wordpress is NOT good for commercial site.
Atanas says
Why?
Mervink says
Interesting, why would you say it’s not good for commercial use, I mean, A lot of digital agencies would prefer working in WP, despite the security factor I really don’t mind using it for commercial purposes
Amanda says
If I may, although I am not the most experienced user, I’ve done my research and, as had been pointed out in other comments, WordPress was designed to be a blogging tool and nothing more. It was NOT intended for commerce. They now have plugins to make up for that lack of functionality, but to compare that to a CMS that has that functionality right out of the box, such as Drupal or Duda, WordPress is obviously going to lose. Of it requires an extension, it is nearly a guarantee that it simply won’t work as well as if it were part of the base coding. There are indeed a lot of commercial sites that use WordPress, but as another commenter is experiencing, that is often because it was requested by a business owner who doesn’t know any better and it makes life considerably harder than it needs to be for the developer. Will the developer be ABLE to make a commercial site with WordPress? Certainly. Will it be as easy as it should be? Probably not (though, once you’re used to it, it likely won’t seem like a big deal, especially if you haven’t used another CMS for the purpose). And they will typically charge their client more money for their trouble.
Mickaël andrieu says
Hi, nice article.
Also, I don’t think we should consider only the three major CMS when we have to build a website: there is a CMS for each specific need.
For instance, I work with a new CMS based on Symfony components and a powerful on page editing system: BackBee
So, don’t be shy and check all theses new “next gen” CMSes
Allan Philip says
Thanks for the enlightenment about the 3 CMS platforms. I’ve always used WordPress because of the ease in setting up, editing and installing plugins on a blog. To me, WordPress is the King of blogging platforms for the simplicity of ease to install and create blogs.
EMM says
I began my web development career using Dreamweaver/HTML.. WordPress at the time was a great blogging platform, but to make a website with it was very difficult. I first tried Joomla out of all 3, but it was so unintuitive, I couldn’t get the grasp of CMS and how it worked. Then a friend suggested Drupal, which I used exclusively for more than 3 years. I loved the flexibility and power of Drupal, and the control I had over content types, views, permissions, etc… Customizing and updating are the two banes of my existence, however, when it comes to Drupal. If those two items were as easy as WordPress, I would probably never leave Drupal because I can do so much more with it.
Then about 3 years ago I was hired to work on some WordPress sites – kicking & screaming, I should add – but once I saw that it had come a long way, I have started using it for most of the websites I build, because of the ease of updating and customizing. I still think security is a bit sketchy, but in reality, no CMS appears to be 100% secure.
I do like Drupal better, but end up using WP because of the items I mentioned above.
Shannon McNaron says
I think you forgot to consider which can actually handle large amounts of content. If a site is small and stagnant maybe WordPress is best but when it grows I think they will move to the bigger guys, so why not start learning and working with the right CMS from the start?
Bruce says
I guess no one told newyorker.com and thenextweb.com that WordPress can’t handle large amounts of content.
Those are just 2 examples of large content, high traffic websites using WordPress successfully
edvard eidem says
As a professione webdeveloper for many years. let me vioce my opinion.
I agree thet WP is the most easy CMS of the three, but a very important aspect is totally missing: SECURITY. If you have a large business which depend on your website 100% you really need to tighten the security by all possible ways. Even then, WP is not more than 95% tight.
Security is one of my main concernes and for my largest client (a large mediahouse) I will never ever concider WP. I use less known CMS’es wich are not on the hackers lists.
One of my previous clients just got hacked even with a PRO firewall and a 13 string generated password.. It was done through a plugin. The plugins and templates are very often to blame.
Joomla by the way is not safe either. FInd something else. My vote for security goes to CMS Made Simple. Never I have even heard of a CMS Made SImple site getting hacked.
Also, a voting by a WP-site such as this is highly biased so really you need to search reviews from a non-biased site.
Regards E, Norway
edvard eidem says
I can not edit the post, so I will have to add a comment by myself.
Security is not totally missing, my bad.
My point is, that WP is not safe enough out of the box. Joomla neither.
E. Norway
Joris says
I have over 100 joomla sites to manage, 2 times i was hacked. 1 was not on my server and outdated, other was outdated for 7 years.
Joomla is secure but using plugins can cause problems (:
With wordpress i have had a few hacked sites to fix and they where always outdated (:
Santhoshveer says
wordpresss is best ever My best cms we can create a website like blogs,download sites’s,shopping carts,social media website’s with custom our coding plugins and themes
Rikáryo Mourão says
Use the 3 CMS and that always gives me trouble is WordPress, including the upgrade process is always complex in the WP and customers have asked me Crackers opinion to solve problems and Joomla! today this intact as it says security breaches.
Just think the result was biased.
Zaki Honey says
thanks for the great comparison, i have a question, why almost all company’s want to use joomla instead of wordpress ? i see that a lot when they look for programmer or someone to make a website for them they want joomla ?
flankerp says
I think because in Workdpress you can not manage policy settings, you can’t have different access rights for group of users. I use both WP and Joomla 3. For small easy sites WP is better as it is much faster. However if you need to manage access rights different groups and create policy then Joomla is the answer.
In my opinion, these are two different products. WP is for blogging and Joomla is the proper CMS system. They are different and you can’t compare. On both you can get some commons but they are different and in my opinion you can’t sa this one is better then that one.
WPBeginner Support says
WordPress comes with a robust user role management system. It can be easily extended using a plugin and developers can create any combination of permissions they need.
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Silvio Jesus says
Heh, I’ve obviously expected that a wp dedicated website would make wp the winner of such comparison.
Although I do agree with almost on the article, there isn’t a tie on the multilingual aspect. Wp, out of the box, does not give the user a multilingual platform, and just the aspect that you have to get a plugin to do so makes it a loser on that category.
So… The article was pretty spot-on until you got your “wp-fanboy feelings” cloud your judgement.
PS: I do think wp is the better of the three, but that doesn’t excuse biased articles.
Best regards,
S.J.
Fernando says
What about scalability? I had WordPress sites that couldn’t handle well lots of traffic. Can you tell which one is best for scalability and make a ultra video tutorial with all steps to make a really really scalable WordPress site, one that we can put on a TV ad and get thousands of click at once?
Best
nero of Intuitive Design says
I am with Fernando about scalability. Also, I like the review as it is focused on non-developers and is very clear. However, I would have loved a section on advantages of each. WordPress wins in the sections you choose; however, as a developer (and I have installed and played with all platforms; but have not actively used them all for development – mainly wp development right now), I would love to know the advantages and the strengths of the other two platforms of when they would be worth looking into for development of specific websites.
Thanks,
Tamer
Jon says
A site that can’t handle lots of traffic is experiencing a hosting issues, not a WordPress issue. Examples of WordPress sites that get tons of traffic: WNBA site, Mashable, The San Francisco Examiner, Garth Brooks website, Mercedes Benz, lots more here: https://wordpress.org/showcase/archives/.
John Lewis says
I agree…. Or it’s a local issue. i.e. you internet connection.
Cliff says
Fernando, scalability is largely a product of the hosting environment (server resources, bandwidth, load balancing, etc…) and not the web site software itself. I doubt that’s all going to get covered in one video.