What's a content management system (CMS)?

A content management system is software that keeps track of every piece of content on your Web site, much like your local public library keeps track of books and stores them. Content can be simple text, photos, music, video, documents, or just about anything you can think of. A major advantage of using a CMS is that it requires almost no technical skill or knowledge to manage. Since the CMS manages all your content, you don't have to.

What is Joomla (CMS)?

Joomla is a popular open source web site code that is free to the general public. 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. Over 40,000,000 people use Joomla as their preferred web solution. Joomla is voted the #1 open source CMS and is used by Harvard and MTV.

What is Wordpress (CMS)?

WordPress is a popular open source blogging code that is free to the general public. Wordpress has a templating system, which includes widgets that can be rearranged without editing PHP or HTML code, as well as themes that can be installed and switched between. The PHP and HTML code in themes can also be edited for more advanced customizations.

Whats the difference?

Wordpress is a great platform for bloggers, it's simpler, and caters to user friendliness more. Joomla has more scalability and hence flexibility. Why? Because Joomla is more generic by nature. A Joomla site can be a blog, a community site, a business site, a forum, a robust shopping cart or all of the above --Wordpress cannot do this - many find this out after it's too late and have to switch to Joomla when they start growing. Joomla has a larger user base, and surpasses Wordpress with the large variety of available plugins and extensions in the Joomla Extensions Directory.