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.