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[Overview](https://www.softwareadvice.com/cms/joomla-profile/) Reviews [Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/cms/joomla-profile/alternatives/) # Joomla User Reviews ## Reviews summary - Overall rating: 4.2/5 - Total reviews: 621 ### Secondary ratings - Ease of use: 3.7/5 - Customer support: 3.8/5 - Value for money: 4.3/5 - Functionality: 4.1/5 ### Rating distribution - 5 stars: 267 reviews (43%) - 4 stars: 220 reviews (35%) - 3 stars: 103 reviews (17%) - 2 stars: 24 reviews (4%) - 1 star: 7 reviews (1%) ### Most mentioned pros - What stands out most is the flexibility—you can build pretty much anything you need without fighting the system. - There’s usually a third-party solution available for what we need, and it’s easy to plug in functionality without reinventing the wheel. - It also complements your SEO efforts by providing the appropriate web layout, managing keywords, adding meta tags, and linking to social media platforms. ### Most mentioned cons - Lack of built-in page creation model. - A lot of the plugins (such as CAPTCHA for contact forms) are difficult to implement and update. - Choosing Joomla over Wordpress (or Drupal) in 2023 as your CMS for your project, means that you will probably face some problems finding experienced developers, decent hosting environment, integration issues, etcetera. ## Joomla customer reviews Showing reviews 1-25 of 621 (page 1). ### Still my favourite CMS - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Mark H. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Higher Education - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: May 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. 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: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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. --- ### Powerful Blogging Platform - Little to none third-party support. - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Evelyn F. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Marketing and Advertising - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: June 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. 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: 3/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### 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. --- ### Powerful CMS for growing websites - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Nabin P. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: June 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. We have been developing large and complex news portals for our clients using Joomla. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### 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. --- ### It's Ok But There Are Better Options - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Nigel Masimba R. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used other for more than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. 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: 3/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### 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. --- ### Joomla is a Good tool, but Wordpress does offer more. - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Gustavo B. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Marketing and Advertising - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: April 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered 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: 3/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### 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 --- ### Powwerfull but not user friendly - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Ralf T. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Internet - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2020 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. 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: 3/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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. --- ### Joomla review - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Stefan B. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Retail - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2019 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered 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: 4/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### 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. --- ### The Best CMS For E-Commerce Store - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Md Billal Hossain S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Writing and Editing - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. It is great for e-commerce solution. Not perfect as a blogging platform. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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. --- ### Website Builder & CMS. Good for SEO. - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Eric P. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Marketing and Advertising - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. 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: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### 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. --- ### It got old, there are much better options right now - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: Yaco L. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Design - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used other for less than 6 months - Reviewed: April 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. We had to use Joomla with some clients, and we expected more of it. It works as a CMS, but the market now changed a lot, and Joomla didn't. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 1/5 - Value for money: 2/5 - Functionality: 2/5 #### Pros The ease of deployment is one of the best benefits. You can even auto-install it in most servers. That's a time saver #### Cons It got really old, no new features, old UI, and not very performance friendly. Once it was a good competitor to its alternatives, now not so much. #### Reasons for choosing Joomla We had to work with Joomla because a client used it --- ### A little work goes a long way! - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Stacy M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Events Services - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: October 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I was a faithful user of Joomla for 8 to 10 years. I actually got very good at working within the CMS. Once you learn how it all fits together, it can be a productive CMS, but it's simply not as easy as Wordpress. Wordpress is much less complicated and can do what Joomla does. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Joomla was the very first CMS I ever used. Being open source doesn't hurt, as it's always updating and evolving. The biggest pro for this product is that you have an enormous extensions catalog, both free and paid, which means you can create a one of a kind website. #### Cons For me the same thing that makes it great, is also the same thing that makes it less great. With Joomla being updated quite often, it happens often when extensions fail to update as quickly as the CMS itself, which renders them inactive until updated. Plus, there is a learning curve to working with Joomla, and it doesn't take long to forget which extension controls what element of the site. #### Reasons for choosing Joomla I was leaving Drupal for something with more flexibility and a more robust building environment. At that time I looked on Wordpress as only a blogging platform, but since then it is now a very robust CMS too! #### Reasons for switching to Joomla Joomla had a more extensive extension catalog and there were more templates available for Joomla than Drupal. --- ### Learning Curve - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Robert F. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Non-Profit Organization Management - Company size: 5001-10000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: August 2024 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I personally enjoyed it but found other open-source software easier to update, although with less bells and whistles. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Everything one would need in a neatly organized package. No need for any additional "plug-ins" needed from other 3rd party #### Cons It is a steep learning curve. We used it for 5 years, but being open source, updates required a complete re-write of the website. #### Reasons for choosing Joomla WordPress was not as prevalent as it is today, we eventually went to WordPress a few years ago. Joomla was just too heavy. #### Reasons for switching to Joomla Recommended to thy Joomla, it offered more and easier to set up. --- ### Joomla, a sunsetting open source has-been - Overall rating: 2/5 - Reviewer: Mark T. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Design - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used other for more than 2 years - Reviewed: August 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Joomla was OK when we entered the CMS space 12 years ago. Now it is just horrid, overall experience is dated and pathetic. A massively frustrating and mostly dissapointing experience with the community support pages. As of May of 2021, we've abandoned the platform, as it appears to be dying a slow and painful death. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 1/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 1/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros Powerful backend tools and MySQL management, solid from the admin of the CMS itself. Decent conternt manmagement tools. #### Cons Terrible, outdated UI. Templating system is intuitive - the module based architecture is almost unmanageable and SOOOO time consuming to make even the most simple template changes. Wooly and unpredictable stable of 3rd party extension/components. There are 1000s of really poor offerings, many abandoned by the original devs, but still listed. Only a handful of very solid offerings to extend the core Joomla functionality. No full number release version anywhere on the horizon. The 4.0 beta has been out since February 2021. It took them years to arrive at the beta. Search the Joomla.org website for "roadmap" and first relevant page comes up from 20 October 2005. The Board of Directors seems ever-shifting, unfocused and not unified. #### Reasons for choosing Joomla Balance between ease of use and powerful feature set. #### Reasons for switching to Joomla Trying to leverage the power of a true CMS. --- ### Zero $0 investment, resulting in a great looking website - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Sergey M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Hospitality - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2018 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Not only I learned something new, which I've never known before, I was also able to present a great looking product to a higher level management, which really didn't cost company a penny. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I came to use Joomla when I needed to build a web based portal for my company to organize internal resources and data. While I can't call myself a Linux guru, it really took me 15 minutes to get my initial Joomla website up and running. Instructions are very clear and simple. Joomla was my first CMS product to evaluate. While it did take me a couple of days to understand it's structure, from that point, building a website was as easy as 123. Everything is visual. You don't have to be a great programmer / web developer to get along with this product. With the amount of available free and paid plugins, sky is really your limit to your web site customization. While my website was fairly simple (as that's the way I wanted to have it), I've seen examples of very complex high end websites, built on Joomla. My favorite feature is a backup. It so happened several times, that I managed to break my website. Restoring from a backup and going back live was so easy, it was hard to believe. Provided this was a totally free solution (Ubuntu Linux + Joomla CMS), I couldn't ask for a better software for my project. #### Cons Really nothing. Like I said it did take me a couple of days to understand how to add content and structure it, but once this was figured out, the rest was a breeze. --- ### ‘Thanks to Joomla Community’ - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used other for less than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Wouldn’t exaggerate. A community who believes that the web should be for every one, works tirelessly to afford that opportunity free of cost. Go get it and experience for yourself. Go to https://downloads.joomla.org/ and understand your limits or nolimits. Then just leave a note of appreciation @ Joomla. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Thanks to Joomla community we have open source CMS to build websites at free of cost. Imaging the cost we have to incur if we had to rely on a multinational SW developer? This community of developers have come together and given us an exceptional CMS in building a site be it personal or commercial but free of cost. All you need is a hosting plan (free or paid and in most, Joomla is included as the CMS together with WP etc.) and you can get going building your site but you may need some coding skills if you want to customize your site. Having said so, Joomla has its own resources even for an average person to learn through errors. ‘If you are keen, Joomla is lean’. Why worry, you don't need to pay for your trials and errors. There are tons of learning material available at https://training.joomla.org/, https://forum.joomla.org/, etc where Joomla community is behind you to help you in making your project get going. There are enough of layouts and extensions/plugins free and paid, choice is yours. Don’t ask questions about SEO, all built-in. No need to pay for third parties to bring your site to the front. Don’t get caught to advertising, and if you, you will end up paying for what is offered free at Joomla. Now don’t worry about where you come from and the language you speak. Joomla will speak FOR YOU. Now, try Joomla for the endless features and resources. #### Cons Ideal for webmasters. That doesn’t mean you cannot utilize Joomla. Joomla is never downgraded. Its not an insult to Joomla community. But what I meant was for webmaters, the limit is beyond the sky. --- ### The CMS I love the most - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Michelangelo C. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Marketing and Advertising - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 2/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros The list of Joomla advantages could be endless: starting from the fact that it is more than well organized for the community behind it, well done graphics, a more than decent and acceptable user experience (for the webmaster). These are things that I generally struggle to find in other CMSs, while here it really seems to be done by real people for real people, without an extortion purpose.Last thing: it will be a coincidence but 70% of the sites I manage are Joomla. In the last 3 years only my wordpress sites have been attacked even if they had much better security situations than Joomla sites #### Cons Unfortunately, my unpopular opinion, I think it is very underrated and for this there are so many plugins and updated themes for this CMS. It's really a shame. #### Reasons for switching to Joomla Systems too closed and unreliable --- ### Create You Own Responsive Website - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Paul E. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Education Management - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: August 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I have used Joomla since it's 1.5 version (it's just about to enter v.4 at the time of writing) so there must be something good about it!! I've used it for a web based book rental service (modifying an online store component), for a school's and cafe's general website (the ability to create custom made forms, with back-end functions is a huge plus. Recently I have used it to set up a fully responsive online store where the functuality we needed was not available on out-of-the-box platforms. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Some of things I like about Joomla are, it gives you a lot of freedom to create your own website, with the features and styling you want, or need! Also, there are loads of extensions on the JED (Joomla Extension Directory) so if you want your website to preform a certain function...somebody has probably already built an extension for that. Many of these aforementioned extensions, are either free or low cost. There is also the satisfaction of building your own unique website and knowing that it will be fully responsive accross all devices. #### Cons The learning curve is a little steep. While setting up Joomla is relatively easy, getting that polished look of professional sites can take some fiddling, delving into code and tweaking certain parameters etc.. --- ### Not the best, not the worst - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Writing and Editing - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. After initial setup, we have had very few problems with this platform. The business directory works great for us. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 2/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros I really enjoy Joomla and the business directory module we are using. This aspect alone has helped us grow our business, because a non-tech can make the basic updates on our sites. #### Cons Setting up the site took us hiring a professional. We thought we could handle on our own, but a professional is recommended. #### Reasons for choosing Joomla We switched from WordPress to Joomla. Joomla does have some upsides to it. WordPress is comparable, but WordPress does offer many more theme choices and plugins. Joomla upside is it requires WAY LESS updating to keep it running. --- ### Joomla Is Robust and Extensible - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Lisa K. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: November 2016 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I've been using Joomla! for almost 10 years, since the very early days of the project. It's come a long, long way since then, and it remains one of the most flexible and feature-rich CMSes out there. The caveat is that any novice will have difficulty learning the ins and outs of Joomla unless they are massively dedicated to pouring over pages of documentation. When compared to WordPress, it has more out-of-the-box features but is a little less user-friendly in terms of getting up and going. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros The built-in ACL is excellent, allowing you to easily create user-focused site without adding a ton of plugins. Joomla beats WordPress in user management, menu management, and template management out of the box. There is very little that you can't do with this software. #### Cons Many people don't keep the software up-to-date, which leads to security concerns and has given the impression that Joomla is insecure. It's not any more or less than other open source software, but it HAS to be kept up-to-date, and with all open source CMSes security software is a must. SEO isn't quite as easy in Joomla but I hear that's changing with upcoming releases. --- ### Best CMS to make your own web page. - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Alberto N. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Hospital & Health Care - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2019 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I use it daily, for my client's web pages, webs like ecua-americanlab.com, https://www.ccemipol.com/web/ and many others since 2012, by now the latest version is 3.9.4 #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros It is free, you can pay for templates if you want but is not necessary because you can find a lot of free templates on internet that can help you to build a great landing page or a complete web page, once you learn how to use it, you will be able to build lots of webpages for your friends or clients, you can make a web un 2 hours or less (It will depend on your abilities) but for somebody who don't know anything of this CMS and start as beginner, can use it with demos and tutorials in 2 weeks easily. #### Cons 1 It is not the best option if you want to create a professional blog. 2 It is so popular and for that reason, there are more probabilities to be attacked by hackers. 3 There are a lot of functionalities in the main administrative panel, but that could confuse a people that will begin to learn how to use it, and most part of this will not be used for the common user. --- ### Best Software or CMS for the Web Development - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Iqra Z. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: June 2020 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I use Joomla in my few websites because it's a free and open-source content management system. I have created a number of online applications using Joomla. Joomla is really a professional CMS and for me, the importance of Joomla is too much. I really love this CMS. I always install first using the localhost, then I create the website offline with Joomla then I transfer the content from the local server to the remote server. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros If you want to be a web developer, first learn the Joomla and then create your personal or business websites with Joomla. Because Joomla is a flexible platform for the website creators. You can build professional websites and powerful online applications using Joomla. Joomla is a search engine friendly and mobile-friendly content management system. #### Cons There are lots of benefits and features of Joomla. I am using Joomla for last few years, and I never faced any problem in Joomla. For me, SEO is very important for my websites, so Joomla always helps me. According to me, there are no cons, Joomla is perfect. --- ### The best and Awesome Content Management System - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Annam K. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Insurance - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2020 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. My overall experience with Joomla is really nice, awesome and incredible. I have designed a number of websites using this unique content managment system. The software has helped me to build mobile friendly websites using different templates. I have also designed a few blogs with Joomla. For me, Joomla is very important regarding the web development. Because I can design professional websites without the coding. I have also done on page optimization using the different extensions of Joomla in my websites. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Joomla is one of the best software for the website creators. The dashboard of Joomla is really easy to understand and use. There are lots of free extensions and templates you can use in Joomla. Templates can give a professional look to your website. Joomla is Search Engine Friendly so the all pages links of your website can index in the search engine very fast. You can easily create meta title and description of your article and pages. So if you want to build your website without the knowledge of programming languages then Joomla is good for this purpose. #### Cons There are few paid extensions or there are a number of extensions, that doesn't offer full features to the beginner users. I think so these extensions should offer more features to the free users so they can also implement more good things in the websites. I really like the all other features and functions of Joomla. --- ### Love and Obsession - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: James H. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Oil & Energy - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros What an I say, this is my addiction! Seriously, I have been using Joomla! for approximately 14 years and have nothing but good things to say about it. First and foremost it is Free and Open Source giving developers an edge when creating Dynamic Websites. Secondly the development team and community behind Joomla! are hands down the best groups of people. Third, the 3rd Party Developer support for Joomla! is excellent with the Extension Directory providing more than 10,000 current integrations and enhancements. Lastly, the ease of use and end user learning is the simpelest compared to other CMS like Wordpress and Drupal. Our end user adoption of Joomla! is 500% faster than any other with less customer call backs than the others. This is great for customers and makes new business generate faster by word of mouth. #### Cons Nothing bad to say, one of the best things that has happened to me and my compay. --- ### Option to consider for the creation of Website - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: Jacob H. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Telecommunications - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used other for more than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. My experience with Joomla has been regular, I have used it for certain projects of websites, but the truth is that the result has not been as I have expected and as much as I have tried to achieve it becomes uphill due to the same limitations that this manager has. content, I feel it is an option to consider but as long as they take into consideration the others that exist in the market and know their benefits and their disadvantages. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros The things that I like most about Joomla is that it is open source, therefore any one can code freely, there is also a large library of plugis that solve problems and the possibility of working with already designed templates, whether they are paid or free. #### Cons Joomla has some things that I do not like and is that it stays behind its competitors, the benefits it has are very simple compared to other content managers, basically its main use is only for websites that are blogs, and so So much is short when it comes to talking about e-commerce sites, the configuration of SEO or positioning is more complicated and less effective than its competitors and besides them it is more complex to use than others with which better results are achieved. It is also good to clarify that in my opinion the library of both paid and free templates are very basic in comparison to the class of websites that we see today. --- ### The professional content management system for Website Development - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Farhan B. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Transportation/ Trucking/ Railroad - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: June 2020 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I have developed a few websites using the Joomla and I really like this superb content management system. There are lots of reasons that I am satisfied with Joomla and some of them are these reasons. The Joomla is search engine friendly and mobile friendly. It's flexible and fully extensible. So I am really happy with Joomla. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Joomla is really incredible platform for the professional website creators. People can build professional websites from scratch to the advanced level using the Joomla. Joomla dashboard is really easy to understand. All options are very simple to use. You can create pages, articles and you can also add different users for your website. #### Cons There are few extensions and modules that are really expensive. So according to my experience there should be some free or trial versions of these extensions. So the beginners can try these extensions before purchasing them. ## More reviews [Next reviews](https://www.softwareadvice.com/cms/joomla-profile/reviews/?page=2) --- Joomla Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice