Joomla! is a free and open source content management system used to publish web content. Included features are page caching, RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news flashes, blogs, polls, a search function, and support for language internationalization.
Learn about the best (and worst!) features Joomla! has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
Based on 286 ratings of Joomla!'s features
Top Performing Features
10+27%
Admin section
The admin page is easy to navigate and use.
Category average: 7.9
9.7+17%
Code quality / cleanliness
Code generated by WYSIWYG editor is clean and validates according to W3C standards.
Category average: 8.3
9.5+19%
Role-based user permissions
Permissions to perform actions or access or modify data are assigned to roles, which are then assigned to users, reducing complexity of administration.
Category average: 8
Areas for Improvement
7.2+4%
Availability / breadth of extensions
There is a broad library of extensions, plug-ins, modules or add-ons that allow users to easily customize their websites without building custom code.
Category average: 6.9
6.2-22%
API
An API (application programming interface) provides a standard programming interface for connecting third-party systems to the software for data creation, access, updating and/or deletion.
Category average: 8
6.2-22%
Page templates
The CMS has standard webpage templates or types of web pages (e.g. homepage, article page, interior page, blog page, etc.); users can also build custom templates.
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Director of UX development, social media and SEO/SEM in Marketing at DFT (a number of local companies under one umbrella) (1-10 employees employees)
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Joomla! is a great CMS, we use it if we need a site builder that is more complicated than what a Wordpress site will be used for but not quite as complicated as a Drupal site. Joomla! is easily updated, but can be a more complex build than Wordpress or some other cookie cutter page builders.
Pros
Content management system
Website development
Custom site development
Cons
Being more intuitive
Having a more robust community
Design updates could be easier
Return on Investment
Joomla! has allowed us to have another amazing asset when building sites
The ROI of Joomla! is great considering it’s starting cost
The customers we’ve built Joomla! sites with have been happy
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CTO in Manufacturing at Animal Necessity (11-50 employees employees)
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We create various offshoot initiatives from time to time, including satellite websites with specific targeting purposes like landing pages, quick e-com one-pagers, blogs for organic SEO, and more. We're always open to using various CMS systems to help us achieve these goals, and we used Joomla in the past. We worked on Joomla's platform for a few initiatives regarding our targeted ad marketing efforts, which needed a home for click-throughs.
Pros
The system is very stable and secure to work on, and its upgrades are decently developer-friendly (when applied).
The coding framework allows our core developers to quickly build custom items.
It's user management and user area features work quite well.
It's already integrated SEO capabilities are decently easy to work with.
Cons
We quickly found that Joomla is more oriented toward working with custom development rather than "quick-and-easy" websites for marketing initiatives.
There are other user interfaces (such as Wordpress) that are more user friendly overall.
Its plugin feature isn't as robust as other platforms, especially regarding e-commerce.
We by far prefer working with Yoast (Wordpress friendly) than PWT SEO).
Return on Investment
Joomla helps us "get cute" coding-wise and allows our developers to work in a space where they aren't worried about core updates overriding code.
Joomla doesn't allow us to easily add various add-ons (such as plugins) that other platforms have, thus slowing down efforts in those scenarios.
The Joomla community (mainly for developers) is still active, but it's just not as robust as other platforms.
The security of the code does give us a 'sigh of relief' - which can be huge in some cases where we're doing more complex integrations
Usability
Alternatives Considered
Drupal, Concrete CMS, WordPress, Squarespace, Wix, Shopify, Square Online and Magento Open Source
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Cloud engineer in Engineering at BrainCert (11-50 employees employees)
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Joomla! is the best content management system (CMS), which helps to manage all our platforms' backends in one place. We also have a virtual classroom API key, where we can schedule a class in Joomla! using plugins
Pros
best administration software that handles everything
helps to sell our API products as they can use it in Joomla!
manage all our progress, easy to setup and use
Cons
Joomla! is quite down in their UI/UX, however we can modify by our own style
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Verified User
Employee in Marketing (11-50 employees employees)
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We utilize Joomla! for ease of creating and managing our website internally. We appreciated that Joomla! enabled us to keep our content current and be able to publish what we needed without requiring technical skills. The main issues that Joomla! Helped minimize were the simplicity of updates on the website, the time spent on updates, and the need for technical support. Our use case of Joomla! consists of posting our news, managing our events, and sharing information with our audience. Joomla! covers much of our website management needs and helps us keep organized and connected to our users.
Pros
Helping us easily update website content.
Build forms, and manage user access.
Adding extra features with extensions.
Cons
Difficult for beginners to learn.
Complex to use some features.
Limited options for easy design customization.
Return on Investment
Saved time on website updates.
Lowered costs by reducing the need for extra developers.
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Verified User
Representative in Sales (11-50 employees employees)
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Joomla! as a user management and API plugin for our Virtual classroom. It is also used as the administrator login and integrates well with third-party tools, making them easy to integrate. The implementation process is simple and easy. It supports users all over the world. Easy to check our client details and share the emails in bulk. Admin can create separate groups and manage them.
Pros
It supports third party tools
User Management that allows the admin to create and manage users
It is easy to set up groups and manage the users
Emails can be share in bulk and private message to the users
Cons
It can offer native integration
Improvements on the updates
Drag and drop is missing
Return on Investment
We were able to launch systerm faster which made our work more efficient.
Improve support and onboarding new customers.
It saves time and make to grow faster
Usability
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