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Joomla! vs BuddyPress: What are the differences?
Joomla!: A content management system helping both novice users and expert developers to create powerful websites and applications. 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; BuddyPress: Fun & flexible software for online communities, teams, and groups. It is a software that helps you build any kind of community website using WordPress, with member profiles, activity streams, user groups, messaging, and more.
Joomla! and BuddyPress can be categorized as "Self-Hosted Blogging / CMS" tools.
Some of the features offered by Joomla! are:
- User Management
- Media Manager
- Language Manager
On the other hand, BuddyPress provides the following key features:
- Users can create and update profiles, including the use of profile photos
- Users can befriend one another
- Users can send private messages
Joomla! is an open source tool with 3.31K GitHub stars and 2.9K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Joomla!'s open source repository on GitHub.
10 Years ago I have started to check more about the online sphere and I have decided to make a website. There were a few CMS available at that time like WordPress or Joomla that you can use to have your website. At that point, I have decided to use WordPress as it was the easiest and I am glad I have made a good decision. Now WordPress is the most used CMS. Later I have created also a site about WordPress: https://www.wpdoze.com
Pros of BuddyPress
Pros of Joomla!
- Powerful extension architecture17
- Powerfull CMS6
- Mid-Hight End level CMS5
- Highly customizable4
- Vast repository of free and paid extensions2
- Extensions & Templates2
- Multilingual in the core1
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Cons of BuddyPress
Cons of Joomla!
- Depleting dev community1
