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Joomla! vs Pinegrow

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When comparing Joomla! vs Pinegrow, the Slant community recommends Joomla! for most people. In the question“What are the best web content management systems?” Joomla! is ranked 5th while Pinegrow is ranked 18th. 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.

Specs

Access Control List (ACL)Yes

Admin MessagingYes

Content versioningYes

DB SupportMySQL (recommended), SQL Server, PostgreSQL

Default Template EnginePHP

ExtensibleYes

Field BuilderYes

Internal Search EngineYes

LanguagePHP

LicenseGPLv2

Media MangerYes

Multi Language SupportYes

PHP SupportFrom PHP 5.3 to PHP 7.3

Page CacheYes (File, Redis, Memcache, APC, XCache)

Plugin & ModulesYes

PriceFree

Redis SupportYes

Sessions CacheYes (DB, PHP, Redis, Memcache, APC, XCache)

Store SupportYes (plugin)

System CacheYes (File, Redis, Memcache, APC, XCache)

URL Redirect ManagerYes

URL Routing System (SEF)Yes

Web Server SupportApache, Nginx, Microsoft IIS

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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
Supports top front-end frameworks

Bootstrap, Foundation, Materialize, etc. Also many other frameworks, languages, etc.

Pro
Realtime preview

You can see the screen preview at real time. No need to click [Preview] button.

Pro
Multi platform desktop software

Windows, Mac & Linux. 32 / 64 bit.

Pro
Reasonably priced

Not free as the main con says, but the cost is fair; and it's okay to encourage a company that produces a quality tool at a very reasonable price.

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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.