What is Joomla!?
Joomla is a simple and powerful web server application and it requires a server with PHP and either MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQL Server to run it.
Joomla! is a tool in the Self-Hosted Blogging / CMS category of a tech stack.
Joomla! is an open source tool with 4.5K GitHub stars and 3.6K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Joomla!'s open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Joomla!?
Companies
1183 companies reportedly use Joomla! in their tech stacks, including Accenture, Bettingclosed.com, and NetApp.
Developers
310 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Joomla!.
Joomla! Integrations
Plesk, tawk.to, LiveChat, Vultr, and KeyCDN are some of the popular tools that integrate with Joomla!. Here's a list of all 40 tools that integrate with Joomla!.
Pros of Joomla!
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Decisions about Joomla!
Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Joomla! in their tech stack.
Helfried Plenk
Senior Partner at IBS IT-DL GmbH · | 1 upvote · 228.1K views
installing a local Joomla! 3.9 website for testing - I already downloaded an installed XAMPP - when now reading some other docs I found mentioned MAMP ... have I to change?
Joomla!'s Features
- User Management
- Media Manager
- Language Manager
- Banner Management
- Contact Management
- Polls
- Search
- Web Link Management
- Content Management
- Syndication and Newsfeed Management
- Menu Manager
- Template Management
- Integrated Help System
- System Features
- Web Services
- Powerful Extensibility
Joomla! Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Joomla!?
Drupal
Drupal is an open source content management platform powering millions of websites and applications. It’s built, used, and supported by an active and diverse community of people around the world.
WordPress
The core software is built by hundreds of community volunteers, and when you’re ready for more there are thousands of plugins and themes available to transform your site into almost anything you can imagine. Over 60 million people have chosen WordPress to power the place on the web they call “home” — we’d love you to join the family.
Django CMS
It is user friendly and has a very intuitive drag and drop interface.
It's built around the needs of multi-lingual publishing by default. Its lightweight core makes it easy to integrate with other software and put to use immediately, while its ease of use makes it the go-to choice for content managers, content editors and website admins.
Adobe Experience Manager
It is a Web Content Management System that allows companies to manage their web content (Web pages, digital assets, forms, etc) and also create digital experiences with this content on any platform web, mobile or IoT.
Strapi
Strapi is100% JavaScript, extensible, and fully customizable.
It enables developers to build projects faster by providing a customizable API out of the box and giving them the freedom to use the their favorite tools.
