When comparing Joomla! vs TYPO3, the Slant community recommends Joomla! for most people. In the question“What is the best PHP CMS?” Joomla! is ranked 4th while TYPO3 is ranked 10th. The most important reason people chose Joomla! is:
Joomla allows for heavily customizable templates to be changed from the admin interface without needing to hack.
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Pros
Pro Highly customizable templates
Joomla allows for heavily customizable templates to be changed from the admin interface without needing to hack.
Pro Powerful and user-friendly admin interface
Admin interface is constantly being iterated on to remove unnecessary legacy features and to streamline the interface. Resulting in a very clean and easy to understand interface that also offers a wide range of options.
Pro More than 8000 extensions
Which can be found here.
Pro Easy to pick up
Pro Great for social networking and commerce sites
Joomla has both a good native support and a great list of extensions that make creating either a social networking or a commerce site easy.
Pro Flexible multi-lingual site management
You can use both one-tree and multi-tree structure.
Pro Multiple websites/domains from one installation
You can use a single TYPO3 installation for multiple websites and domains.
Pro TYPO3 is enterprise
TYPO3 can be used from small to very big installations where it is possible to give rights to users on a very fine grained basis.
Cons
Con Insecure
It's common-place for a Joomla-based website to be defaced, often very quickly. This is most often due to the low quality of extensions.
Con Extensions are scarce, badly maintained & rarely good
If it's not part of the default Joomla installation, quality extensions are rare. Joomla has a extensions library, but it is full of abandoned, dated or bloated components, modules and plugins.