Joomla or WP?

Which one works best for website flipping, or if I'm planning to create and sell websites --Joomla or Wordpress?

 

I think wordpress is easy to handle & manage sites. We recommend our hosting clients to setup their sites on wp if they ask.

 

WordPress is very easy to customize and it has free plugins for virtually any purpose. You can use it to create websites that does not look like blog, photogallery, etc. If my clients request certain feature that I didn't know how to do, 85% of the time, there's a plugin somewhere that can enable WordPress to have that feature.

However, I heard from a previous client Joomla has certain nice features that can be more useful in business or company websites such as those little boxes that provide preview on what's inside the site. When I have time, I'll study Joomla.

 

We recently moved away from Joomla at this site mirthcorp.com and we run the frontend with wp. We found it easier to work with and customize and do all that we wanted.

 

You can't beat WP - light weight, tons of free plugins & themes, massive community, extremely stable.

 

for me i prefer to used JOOMLA 1.5, Joomla is more powerful as a Content Management System. i used joomla in all my clients, its a open source cms and lots of tons of free component, plug-ins, module in the web, and its absolutely free.. you can find it at thier joomla site...

So, if to compare these two software as a personal publishing system, I would say that Wordpress built around writing content and publishing that content. Joomla from the beginning built around presentation of content - reflecting absolute meaning for CMS - Content Management System. Managing content in some nice way first and only then writing and publishing it.

 

If you look for a simple CMS take WP, its very simple and very reliable. I would take Joomla for more complicated sites with more functions but also more "heavier". I prefer WP.

 

I agree, WP has come on leaps and bounds in the past couple of years and is now unstoppable. The amount of plugins and cool themes make it the best option most of the time, especially how you can get a great looking website for under £50 (including hosting and theme)

 

Word press is far better then joomla. I have my all blogs on workpress.

 

I prefer Joomla, is very powerful cms and you find a lot extensions free or not and you get support very fast. I use joomla on al my website. I recommend this CMS.

 

Joomla, at present, is a far more power content management system. However, if clients are looking for a simple blogging, magazine or basic gallery site - Wordpress will be more than enough.

For more complicated sites, a hybrid of the two can be accomplished using a bridging component within Joomla 1.5

 

For website flipping it may be easier & quicker to use Wordpress. Joomla is a far more involved CMS so it's more appropriate for bigger & more complicated sites IMHO

 

website flipping i reccomend wordpress and for a selling website i reccomend joomla with virtuemart

 

my answere is wp. I think wordpress is easy to use and works best for website flipping

 

Yap. I agree with you.

 

I choose WP...

 

I very strongly disagree - sites like phone.com, graphics.net and seo.com are made with Wordpress -- Joomla doesn't hold a candle to those sites. The things you can do with Wordpress are just amazing, and nothing is more SEO friendly!

 

I agree with markn26, and thus disagree with Chocolate Lime...

We tried Joomla and yes, you have lots of features and available options and solid CMS, but managing it is a bit complicated compared to WP. We had problems with modules, re-write rules and single sign on integration.

It took weeks just to do a couple of the tasks we wanted on Joomla, while the same tasks plus then some we were able to do in just a couple days with WP. The team involved in the transition had never used WordPress but had been using Joomla for 1+ year and immediately switched to WP after realizing how easy it was to do things in it. We even wrote a couple of plugins in less than a day to help with Role Scoper, vTiger and a Single Sign on backend system from Atlassian.

 

If you are trying to get them out the door quickly and most of the people using them don't need a sophisticated CMS then just use the bloggging platform of Wordpress with some plug-ins to make it a hybrid CMS

If you need some serious power, then use Joomla.

I use both....
For bigger more powerful sites I use Joomla

for quick and easy sites I use Wordpress with a couple of special plugins....
admin drop down menu, exclude page plugin, and some other ones...

 

Wordpress would be the way to go, because you can have it up and running in a matter of minutes. With joomla, you have to upload the files, run the install script and chmod almost a dozen folders to 666. The chmoding the extra folders takes time, and time is money.

With wordpress you upload the files, run the install script and your done. If you want to upload files you have to create one uploads folder and chmod it so 666. So that is 1 folder for worpdress and almost a dozen for joomla.

And then there is the bloat that joomla has. You can run a lot more wordpress sites on a server then you can joomla sites.

So if your leasing a server to showcase the sites and put them up for sale, your gonna be able to get more wordpress sites on the server then joomla - once again you save money with wordpress.