Comments on: Google trends on WordPress, Movable Type and Joomla

By: hanum

hanum — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:12:00 +0000

each of that CMS has benefit and weakness. But I prefer joomla to build web to wordpress. Good comparison review. Nice posting. Thank’s

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By: Pixel

Pixel — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:00:56 +0000

I dropped by here to read up and just want to put my two bits in… as a web designer, I can easily say every site is different in one way or another and will depend on many factors to determine which is ultimately the better solution. I like to focus on the long-term for any client because what might make Wordpress ideal for the short-term, there may be plans or growth down the road for the business which will require a much more robust solution; in which case, and based on what is available today, Joomla would be the choice. Drupal, nah, they are still at least a couple years from being where Joomla is and as for Movable Type and it’s 4.2 version now, I have to say I am very impressed with it because there are many things that it exceeds WordPress (eg: Modules and widgets can be built from within using straight up html. Then there’s the folders aspect where you can load all the pages you want in it other than WP’s method of a sub-pages on pages. I find that pages in MT get Google indexed within 20 minutes with my own site that I run a MT version). Each cms has it’s own learning curve and each site requires certain things that others may not need and finding the right cms can be complicated at times. Based on experience though, Big sites with lots of features and functions should use Joomla, smaller or at least blog only sites have the choice of WP or MT, but for the bigger companies that want more flexibility to work almost like a full cms but stay as a blog, then MT is better suited.

By: Miriam Schwab

Miriam Schwab — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:13:17 +0000

Thanks Robin! I’m familiar with that site, and I spent many an hour on it before I settled on WordPress. But it doesn’t tell you which CMS is popular, or is being talked about most. That’s where Google Trends comes in handy.

By: Robin

Robin — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 16:02:45 +0000

Miriam, despite the trends, you can compare all CMS available on this planet at http://www.cmsmatrix.org. Hope it helps.

By: Miriam Schwab

Miriam Schwab — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 19:50:56 +0000

Thanks everyone for your informative comments! It’s interesting to hear about other people’s experience with these different systems.

My feeling is that it’s not worth investing in learning about Joomla, but Drupal sounds like an interesting option for more complex sites that may be too much for WordPress to handle.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 06:00:13 +0000

I’ve been poking around at Drupal themes over the past day or two. I was impressed with how simple the markup was in comparison to the complicated mess of their equivalent Joomla themes.

So I installed Drupal about quarter of an hour ago and am working my way through their admin panel. I am very impressed so far. It doesn’t feel as bloated and confusing as other CMS’s I’ve installed before.

If things keep going this smoothly, I may look at converting some of my more complicated sites from WordPress to Drupal for the extra features it provides.

Using Drupal has so far been a much more enjoyable experience than Joomla which I positively despised.

By: Rowan

Rowan — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 14:08:57 +0000

Mambo/Joomla has pretty much been *the* open source CMS since the first dot-com boom. Try mapping Mambo and Joomla, and you’ll see that the latter picks up where the 2nd flags. If you compare to Drupal, you’ll see that despite the hype Joomla is much more popular.

As for Wordpress, it *the best* CMS, period, but as you know people still see it as a blogging engine. No surprise that it trumps all blogging CMS’s.

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By: Darren Hoyt

Darren Hoyt — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:04:56 +0000

Joomla’s templating has supposedly gotten better in recent 1.5 versions, but what I found previously was clumsy table-based markup intermingled with PHP. For skinning sites elegantly with CSS, it was a definite nightmare. And as if the core code wasn’t bad enough, the extensions/plugins were ten times worse.

In recent years I’ve ditched Joomla altogether in favor of Expression Engine, specifically for medium and larger sites, while WP is till the favorite for small sites. In the end, I’ve found clients are willing to shell out for Expression Engine as it benefits both them as a client and us as a design firm.