WordPress or Joomla

[seo]

Which wold you go with as a platform for a news portal type cms website.

Joomla or WordPress?

 

[c0mputertalk]

WordPress is a website engine built on the premise that installing it, running it, and publishing basic content with it should be as quick and simple as possible.Joomla is a different animal, it's for managing and publishing a lot of different content types, in different ways, while looking good doing it.

Wordpress Pros

* Simple to use - No need for modifications

* Excellent for blogging or sharing thoughts in a sequential manner

* Even the most elderly of users can get the hang of it quickly

Wordpress Cons

* Not developer friendly

* The community seems to like to complain

* Upgrades bring more bugs than fixes sometimes

Joomla Pros

* Friendly for all types of users - Designers, Developers and Administrators

* Huge community is awesome for assisting with creation of websites

* Has been rapidly growing and improving itself for the past three years

Joomla Cons

* Still not user-friendly enough for everyone to understand

* Not quite as powerful as Drupal, and can be a bit confusing for some to jump into

* Recently rebuilt the entire system from ground-up, and so there are still many out there sticking to the old versions (1.0.x)