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WordPress vs. Joomla: What are the costs?

While WordPress.org and Joomla.com are free, there are costs associated with each platform. Your total spend depends on the scope of your website. For example, if you want to run an online store, you might want to buy a professional domain name and SSL security to accept payments safely. These come at a premium regardless of which platform you choose. Let’s break down the potential costs of using each platform.

How easy is it for a beginner to set up and get started?

When you’re set on building a website, you don’t need clunky software standing in your way. Self-hosted platforms are more complicated than their hosted counterparts. Things like software configuration and the technical side of managing your own server can trip people up at the first hurdle. It’s for these reasons Joomla.com developed a quick ‘site-builder,’.

Which is a better CMS platform?

Both these CMS should allow regular users to extend a site to create pretty much anything. Both of these platforms are diverse, meaning that they can help you manage websites from blogs to e-commerce platforms or enterprises., customer relationship systems, or photography portfolios, to name a few.

How about site security?

Running a website, the last thing you want is to fall prey to a malicious attack. Both WordPress and Joomla have concrete security measures as far as the core software goes. The essential factor for security is the human behind the site. According to Sucuri, 60% of hacked sites run out of date software at the time of infection.

Who owns my website data?

Both platforms are conceptually against locking users in. If you’re unhappy with how things are going, you’re not locked in. It’s possible to move your site, at any point, to another host or another platform entirely. However, Joomla users risk losing their data altogether. That’s only if they fail to log in to your admin once per month — at this point, websites are taken down.