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Add to SafariWhen comparing Joomla! vs ExpressionEngine, the Slant community recommends Joomla! for most people. In the question“What is the fastest CMS for web content (news website with some static pages) ?” Joomla! is ranked 8th while ExpressionEngine is ranked 13th. 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 No restrictions on how a site can be designed
Pro Focus on security
Pro Commercial support
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.
Con Simple pages can hurt performance
A simple page can rack up on database queries. Many sites usually suffer from this. Create an empty page and there's a few queries that run and it's unneccessary.
Con Can be overkill for simple or smaller sites
Con Cost is high
Especially for commercial sites
Con Built on top of codeigniter: an outdated framework
Codeigniter was cool.... back when PHP was at 5.2
