HubPress vs Joomla!: What are the differences?
What is HubPress? A web application to build your blog on GitHub. HubPress is a free, open source tool to build your future awesome blog!.
What is 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.
HubPress and Joomla! can be categorized as "Self-Hosted Blogging / CMS" tools.
Some of the features offered by HubPress are:
- All you need is a free GitHub account, no server's rent, no subscription.
- Fork the hubpress.io repository, update the config file and it's done, your Blog is ready.
- We integrated Disqus, all you need to start conversations with your readers is a Disqus shortname.
On the other hand, Joomla! provides the following key features:
- User Management
- Media Manager
- Language Manager
HubPress and Joomla! are both open source tools. It seems that Joomla! with 3.29K GitHub stars and 2.88K forks on GitHub has more adoption than HubPress with 2.85K GitHub stars and 3K GitHub forks.