Joomla! vs Letterpad vs WordPress

Overview

WordPress

Stacks99.7K

Followers41.4K

Votes2.1K

GitHub Stars20.6K

Forks12.9K

Joomla!

Stacks1.5K

Followers337

Votes37

GitHub Stars5.0K

Forks3.7K

Letterpad

Stacks2

Followers8

Votes0

GitHub Stars788

Forks84

Detailed Comparison

WordPress	Joomla!	Letterpad
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.	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.	Letterpad is an open-source and a high performant publishing engine for blogs with a state-of-the-art technology. It uses React, Graphql, Express and Sequelize ORM.
Flexibility;Publishing Tools;User Management;Media Management;Full Standards Compliance;Easy Theme System;Extend with Plugins;Built-in Comments;Search Engine Optimized;Multilingual;Easy Installation and Upgrades;Importers;Own Your Data	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	Server side rendering;Multi author support;Comments (Disqus integration);Google Analytics;Theme support;Multi-level navigation;Image optimizer;React with styled-components for styling;GraphQL for json API;Roles - Admin, Reviewer, Author, Reader;Markdown and RichText editor;Search Engine Optimised;Multi-language support with react-i18next (currently en, fr and pl)
Statistics
GitHub Stars 20.6K	GitHub Stars 5.0K	GitHub Stars 788
GitHub Forks 12.9K	GitHub Forks 3.7K	GitHub Forks 84
Stacks 99.7K	Stacks 1.5K	Stacks 2
Followers 41.4K	Followers 337	Followers 8
Votes 2.1K	Votes 37	Votes 0
Pros & Cons
Pros 417 Customizable 368 Easy to manage 356 Plugins & themes 259 Non-tech colleagues can update website content 248 Really powerful Cons 13 Plugins are of mixed quality 13 Hard to keep up-to-date if you customize things 10 Not best backend UI 2 Complex Organization 1 Forced to use LAMP stack	Pros 17 Powerful extension architecture 6 Powerfull CMS 5 Mid-Hight End level CMS 4 Highly customizable 2 Vast repository of free and paid extensions Cons 1 Depleting dev community	No community feedback yet
Integrations
ClickTale Clicky Disqus Formstack GoSquared HipChat Hipmob KickoffLabs KISSmetrics LiveChat	No integrations available	React Yarn Webpack Google Analytics GraphQL Disqus

What are some alternatives to WordPress, Joomla!, Letterpad?

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.

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.

Ghost

Ghost is a platform dedicated to one thing: Publishing. It's beautifully designed, completely customisable and completely Open Source. Ghost allows you to write and publish your own blog, giving you the tools to make it easy and even fun to do.

Wagtail

Wagtail is a Django content management system built originally for the Royal College of Art and focused on flexibility and user experience.

OctoberCMS

It is a Laravel-based CMS engineered for simplicity. It has a simple and intuitive interface. It provides a consistent structure with an emphasis on reusability so you can focus on building something unique while we handle the boring bits.

Twill

Twill is an open source CMS toolkit for Laravel that helps developers rapidly create a custom admin console that is intuitive, powerful and flexible.

ProcessWire

ProcessWire is an open source content management system (CMS) and web application framework aimed at the needs of designers, developers and their clients. ProcessWire gives you more control over your fields, templates and markup than other platforms, and provides a powerful template system that works the way you do

Typo3

It is a free and open-source Web content management system written in PHP. It can run on several web servers, such as Apache or IIS, on top of many operating systems, among them Linux, Microsoft Windows, FreeBSD, macOS and OS/2.

Directus

Let's say you're planning on managing content for a website, native app, and widget. Instead of using a CMS that's baked into the website client, it makes more sense to decouple your content entirely and access it through an API or SDK. That's a headless CMS. That's Directus.