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Joomla!
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Joomla!

#18in Platform as a Service
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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 Platform as a Service category of a tech stack.

Key Features

User ManagementMedia ManagerLanguage ManagerBanner ManagementContact ManagementPollsSearchWeb Link ManagementContent ManagementSyndication and Newsfeed ManagementMenu ManagerTemplate ManagementIntegrated Help SystemSystem FeaturesWeb ServicesPowerful Extensibility

Joomla! Pros & Cons

Pros of Joomla!

  • ✓Powerful extension architecture
  • ✓Powerfull CMS
  • ✓Mid-Hight End level CMS
  • ✓Highly customizable
  • ✓Extensions & Templates
  • ✓Vast repository of free and paid extensions
  • ✓Multilingual in the core

Cons of Joomla!

  • ✗Depleting dev community

Joomla! Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Joomla!?

WordPress

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.

Drupal

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.

Adobe Experience Manager

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

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.

Netlify CMS

Netlify CMS

It is built as a single-page React app. You can create custom-styled previews, UI widgets, and editor plugins or add backends to support different Git platform APIs.

Ghost

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.

Joomla! Integrations

MetaCDN, ContainerShip, EmbedBox, CDN77.com, Vultr and 7 more are some of the popular tools that integrate with Joomla!. Here's a list of all 12 tools that integrate with Joomla!.

MetaCDN
MetaCDN
ContainerShip
ContainerShip
EmbedBox
EmbedBox
CDN77.com
CDN77.com
Vultr
Vultr
GetResponse
GetResponse
Hilenium
Hilenium
SiteGround
SiteGround
Smartsupp
Smartsupp
VWO
VWO
KeyCDN
KeyCDN
FreshMail
FreshMail

Joomla! Discussions

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Helfried Plenk
Helfried Plenk

Senior Partner

Jan 15, 2021

Needs adviceonJoomla!Joomla!XAMPPXAMPPMAMPMAMP

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?

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