General Questions/New to Joomla! 4.x • Re: Considering Moving from WordPress to Joomla Pros and Cons?

What are the advantages of Joomla over WordPress?

Welcome to Joomla forum!

Joomla has many features already included in the core, so you don’t need to install many 3rd party plugins. Both Joomla and WordPress core software are secure, but the quality of 3rd party extensions can be very different. And for WordPress, you will need to use many 3rd party plugins.

Joomla has built in:

• Multilingual Functionality to create multilingual websites
• Custom Fields (for WordPress you need a 3rd party plugin like "Advanced Custom Fields")
• Flexible ACL (Access Control List) to configure user permissions (WordPress has 6 hard coded groups)
• Flexible menu system

Some technical things that most people don't look at:

• Joomla 5 core code uses the MVC (Model-View-Controller) design, which makes it organized and easy to maintain. It also uses modern name spaced coding.
• Joomla has plugin groups, so plugins run only when they are needed. This helps make the site faster.
• Joomla's database is well-designed, with one table for each content type. WordPress uses the same tables for different kinds of data, which is less organized.
• With Joomla you can organize uploaded images in folders. With WordPress the folders are organized by date (year/month) which makes it very difficult to find images. The down site is that when webmasters are not organized, they might put all images in the /image/ root folder...
• Joomla has all its settings in configuration.php and it uses relative URLs for images. It's not hard coded like with Wordpress.

Are there any notable downsides or challenges I should prepare for?

Yes, with WordPress you can use WooCommerce as web shop plugin. It is more known and therefore is better supported by 3rd services than Joomla web shop extensions.

How does Joomla handle SEO, extensions, and themes compared to WordPress?

Joomla has everything built in to create SEO optimized websites.
There are some paid 3rd party plugins available to make things easier, like
PWT SEO https://extensions.joomla.org/extension/pwt-seo/ and
4SEO https://extensions.joomla.org/extension/4seo/

Is the migration process complex, and are there any tools to simplify it?

There are some commercial solutions to import/export data from WordPress to Joomla,
e.g. the paid extension RO CSVI: https://extensions.joomla.org/extension/ro-csvi/

When you migrate a WordPress to Joomla, the URLs might be different. You could create "301 redirects" to redirect old traffic to the new URLs (and notify search engines of the new links). You can do that on server level using the .htaccess file, or on application level with using the built in "Redirects" functionality of Joomla: https://docs.joomla.org/Help4.x:Redirec ... or_Edit/en

Statistics: Posted by pe7er — Tue Dec 31, 2024 12:54 pm

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