How to Choose Between Joomla,
Drupal and Wordpress - Is There a Best Choice ? /MarcoBarbosa

● Joomla! ( jumla )
means “all together” or “as a whole”' (Swahili) ● Since 2005 (2000 for mambo) [1] ● 189,429 weekly downloads ● 4.641+ extensions

● MTV Networks Quizilla (Social
networking) - (link) ● TNA Wrestling (link) ● Citibank (Financial institution intranet) - Not publicly accessible ● Linux.com (link)

● English rendering of the
Dutch word “druppel”, which means “drop” (as in “a water droplet”). ● Since 2001 [1] ● 62,500 weekly downloads ● 7.274+ extensions

● The White House (link)
● Ubuntu (link) ● Le Figaro (link) ● OpenSource.com (link)

● Official successor of b2/cafelog
● Since 2003 [1] ● 433,767 weekly downloads ● 9,157+ plugins

● TechCrunch (link) ● IcanHasCheezBurger
(link) ● PlayStation Official Blog (link) ● NASA’s Ames Research Center (link)

Popularity

Google trends

Joomla Sweden – All Years
Wordpress Drupal

Joomla Worldwide – Past 12
months Wordpress Drupal

Alexa (site ranks)

Traffic Rank

[2]
Open Source CMS Awards

Best Open Source PHP CMS
2009 1. Drupal 2. WordPress 3. Joomla! 2008 1. Drupal 2. Joomla, CMS Made Simple 2007 1. Joomla 2. Drupal 3. e107

The Differences

User

Frontend Backend Admin Login Password
LOGIN ● Template System ● Manage Content ● Displays Content ● Install Extensions Drupal supports multisites installation out of the box. Wordpress from 3.0+ or with MU Joomla must extend.

Joomla Drupal Wordpress Content Articles
Pages & Stories Pages & Posts Sections & Categorization Categories Taxonomy Categories & Tags Components, Extensions Modules & Plugins Modules & Blocks Plugins & Widgets Design Positions Regions Widget areas

Design

css images html templateDetails.xml Template
index.php component.php favicon.ico

[3]

Developing

Joomla Drupal Wordpress Model-View-Controller Presentation-Abstraction-
Plugin Application (MVC) Control (PAC) Program Interface (API) Fair Documentation Good Documentation Great Documentation MySQL MySQL/PostgreSQL MySQL PHP 4.3+ PHP 4.4.0+ PHP 4.3+

Strengths

Joomla Drupal Wordpress Blogging Social
Network E-commerce Templates Framework SEO Flexibility Resources Community Learning Curve

Wordpress S F I L
M E P X L I C Joomla! I B I I L T I Y T Y Drupal

The CMS Showdown [4] http://www.cmsshowdown.com
March 2009

Results

Joomla Drupal Wordpress Total Hours
57.25 79.25 90.5 Hours spent on 15 21.75 36.5 front end Html validation Yes No (8 errors) No (8 errors) CSS Validation No (1 error) No (7 errors) No (21 errors) Page weight 140K 180K 154K Lines of custom 30 220 1,808 JS/PHP code

Joomla Drupal Wordpress Total Hours
57.25 79.25 90.5 Hours spent on 15 21.75 36.5 front end Html validation Yes No (8 errors) No (8 errors) CSS Validation No (1 error) No (7 errors) No (21 errors) Page weight 140K 180K 154K Lines of custom 30 220 1,808 JS/PHP code

So..Is there a best choice?

Or, it's just a matter
of taste

If a CMS would be
a celebrity..

Wordpress ● Very Popular. ●
Suitable for anyone. ● Stylish.

Joomla ● Easy to create
attractive sites. ● “ It just works ”. ● Large market.

Drupal ● Drupal knows best.
● Deeper learning curve. ● No problems it can't solve.

Thank you!
iam@marcobarbosa.com
marcobarbosa.com
/MarcoBarbosa

References [1] Open Source CMS
Market Share Report 2009 [2] Open CMS Awards [3] Wordpress Template Hierarchy Diagram [4] The CMS Showdown Idealware - Comparing Open Source Content Management Systems Survey Analysis Part 1: Developers and Documentation Custom Post Types in Wordpress 3 Wordpress vs Joomla vs Drupal Joomla and Drupal - Which One is Right for You? Version 2 What everybody ought to know about Joomla Why running the White House Web site on Drupal is a political disaster waiting to happen