Joomla 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

Joomla

4.2

(620)

Pricing

Pricing available upon request

About Joomla

Joomla is an open-source software design to help corporate businesses, government institutions and nonprofit organizations manage and publish website content. Supervisors can edit content using WYSIWYG editor, add/upload images, publish articles and access previous versions of content.

Joomla allows organizations to configure access permissions for users and utilize built-in SEO tools to improve the visibility of the website across search engines. Managers can create customizable templates, assign them to specific pages and add menu items according to requirements.

Joomla enables businesses to create RSS feeds, manage URL redirects and categorize content using tags.

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Joomla Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $199.00

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

$199.00

per user

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Joomla Features

Popular features found in Content Management
Access Controls/Permissions
Audio File Management
Content Library
Customizable Templates
Image Editing
Search/Filter
SEO Management
Text Editing
Version Control
Video Support
More features of Joomla
Activity Dashboard
Activity Tracking
Alerts/Notifications
API
Asset Library
Asset Sharing
Campaign Management
Collaboration Tools
Commenting/Notes
Content Management
Content Publishing Options
Customizable Branding
Customizable Fields
Customizable Forms
Data Import/Export
Design Management
Document Classification
Document Management
Drag & Drop
eCommerce Management
File Management
Full Text Search
Landing Pages/Web Forms
Metadata Management
Multi-Language
Online Store Builder
Pre-built Templates
Real Time Editing
Reporting/Analytics
Shopping Cart
Social Media Integration
Third-Party Integrations
User Management
Website Analytics
Website Management
WYSIWYG Editor

Joomla Integrations

Google Maps

Integration rated 4.7 from 16 reviews

Google Analytics 360

Ecwid

Joomla User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.2

Ratings Breakdown

43%

35%

17%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

3.7

Value for money

4.3

Customer support

3.8

Functionality

4.1

Younes E.

Verified reviewer

Marketing and Advertising

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2023

CMS tool that value your needs with free costs

I'm currently using Joomla for my company main website,

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

With Joomla, it's easier to build a website with no complications, an advanced web builder that simplifies the building task.

Cons:

The main issue I faced with Joomla was the integration with a local payment gate solution, it was hard for me since my programming skills are limited.

Reasons for switching to Joomla

I switched for stability reasons, WordPress was full of issues regarding updates and plugins that affected our website speed.

Mark H.

Verified reviewer

Higher Education

1001-5000 employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2023

Still my favourite CMS

Developed three major websites on it and supported two others. Always found it a pleasure to work with, with most functions supported out of the box and easy to hack if it needed to be extended or customised under the surface.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

Incredibly powerful and extensible, and easy to hack into almost any configuration. Great support from the community and developer.

Cons:

Really not much - I wish I had a reason to use it more often! It's often hard to sell clients on Joomla vs something like Wordpress which they recognise more.

Reasons for switching to Joomla

More flexible and powerful, much better organised and more efficient under the bonnet.

Nabin P.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2021

Powerful CMS for growing websites

Previously 5

We have been developing large and complex news portals for our clients using Joomla.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Previously 5

Functionality

Pros:

Joomla is a free and open source CMS that can be customized and extended easily.

Cons:

Web development speed is slower using Joomla

Reasons for choosing Joomla

Joomla is beginner friendly CMS with powerful features.

Evelyn F.

Verified reviewer

Marketing and Advertising

2-10 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2023

Powerful Blogging Platform - Little to none third-party support.

My experience was good. But we always found limitations to manage certain kind of contents in regard with the website appearance. There aren't builders as powerful as those found in some other platforms.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Posting blog entries flows easily. The user interface is clean and user friendly.

Cons:

There is almost no third-party support for this pretty platform making it very limiter in comparison with WordPress which is another framework for blogging and nowadays, a little more.

Reasons for choosing Joomla

I did choose nowadays WordPress over all other alternatives. It is easy to integrate with third-party software providers and it makes better the managing experience of any website.

Nigel Masimba R.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

2-10 employees

Used other for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2019

It's Ok But There Are Better Options

I use Joomla! intermittently for client websites. I never set up new websites with Joomla! as I believe there are better solutions out there. However, in the case of existing websites where Joomla! has been used for a long time and a large amount of content has been uploaded, it is usually easier to maintain the existing installation than to migrate to a new installation.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It's free and open source. It's fast, lightweight and easy to install. There is a large community of developers and users ready to help with advice on how to use it.

Cons:

The interface is unintuitive for beginners It is lagging behind other similar content management systems Depending on the issue it can take time to get support from the open-source community Some common software integrations can be difficult to find

Reasons for choosing Joomla

It was the existing solution on an established system so it was easier to maintain the legacy than move to new systems.

Gustavo B.

Verified reviewer

Marketing and Advertising

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed April 2022

Joomla is a Good tool, but Wordpress does offer more.

My experience was some poor since Joomla requires to take a long road to mange easy tasks. I stop using the platform while I finding myself striving to get some critical integrations with different platforms.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Open Source System Good for blog entries Easy to install

Cons:

There are not many third party integrations The community of users isn't big. Customizing any website requires a lot of work and there is few an little quality premade layouts available.

Reasons for choosing Joomla

I did choose Wordpress for many reasons. After trying long time enough Joomla, I got back into WordPress

Ralf T.

Verified reviewer

Internet

2-10 employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2020

Powwerfull but not user friendly

I only ever use this in large and complex systems with large user/clients bases. The data is very structured and not everything packed all in just one or two tables and you need constantly join tables to get just one information. This is a system to use for something like real estate with massive of data that need to be pulled from the database very quickly.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

This is a very powerful system with great data model and database structure. Everything is well separated in the database and easy to optimize. File and folder structure is also very clear and structured. This is the system to use if you have a large client/user base need different access roles.

Cons:

This is a developer system. Standard user will find this very complicated and complex. Its not user friendly and the concept are very powerful but very technical.

Reasons for choosing Joomla

The data model where everything is in one table with joins to a second or even third table is very slow for real estate. The property details page has so many data that WordPress requires a few hundred data queries. While Joomla does this all in just one.

Stefan B.

Verified reviewer

Retail

1001-5000 employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2019

Joomla review

I have used Joomla to create a number of websites and Joomla made it really easy for me to do this. Instead of writing a whole website by hand I can have a working prototype that I can showcase to the customer in a matter of hours.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

Joomla as a CMS has a lot of options and is very modular, for someone who has some knowledge with web development Joomla seems like the right option . Another thing that gives Joomla an edge over other content managing systems is that it has very good search engine optimization which is something very important if we rely on Google for site recommendations.

Cons:

Joomla doesn't have a very wide choice of add-ons and templates, which we should consider when deciding on which CMS to use. Also for regular users Joomla is harder to use since it has a somewhat steep learning curve.

Reasons for choosing Joomla

For developing website that I personally take care of I always choose Joomla over WordPress. This is due to that Joomla has a model-view-controller workflow that software developers are accustomed to.

Md Billal Hossain S.

Verified reviewer

Writing and Editing

2-10 employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed September 2021

The Best CMS For E-Commerce Store

It is great for e-commerce solution. Not perfect as a blogging platform.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

- Awesome inventory system - Easily able to create e-commerce store - Free of cost - Huge number of templates

Cons:

- Functionality little bit messy according to other CMS. Especially according to WordPress.

Reasons for switching to Joomla

Joomla is easy than Magento. Less bugs in Joomla.

Eric P.

Verified reviewer

Marketing and Advertising

2-10 employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2019

Website Builder & CMS. Good for SEO.

Once I got proficient, I could accomplish pretty much whatever I wanted. With the right plugins and extensions, Joomla is great.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

After getting used to it, it's fairly easy to navigate around and accomplish tasks.

Cons:

The complexity of articles, modules and menu items makes composing an actual web page a little confusing at first. Explaining how all of these pieces come together to a client can be challenging.

Reasons for choosing Joomla

I now use Wordpress instead of Jooma, but at the time, I liked Joomla capabilities.

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