![]() ![]() I sort of liked the one-stop shopping aspect of this community, and found no problems in finding the answers I need when questions arose. I found the WordPress community to be heavily centralized on that main site, which made it easy to locate tools and support for my questions. WordPress, like Joomla, has a lot of commercial support and activity, but not so much that you can't find really good free themes and plug-ins on the WordPress site. The balance between free and paid extensions is fair, and you get the sense that there's a lot more revenue in the developer ecosystem in Joomla. There are far more commercial extensions in Joomla, though not so many you get the idea that "free" Joomla is just a kind of come-on for pay-for-more add-ons. So I ran into it a lot more often when searching for help. What Joomla lacks in numbers, it more than makes up for in energy.ĭocumentation on the Joomla site is wiki-based, updated constantly and well-indexed by search engines. Free software users will be comfortable with this, but commercial users may need to get used to the lack of commercial support. This is too bad, because there are some good docs in there.Ī majority of Drupal modules are categorized as non-commercial, meaning free, something which is different from the Joomla extension family. Oddly, when searching for help on some Drupal issues, I was often pointed at sites other than the main Drupal site. The Drupal website has a very good modules directory and solid documentation. ![]() This is certainly reflected in the number of modules, but it also shows in the support for the CMS. To give you an idea of what kind of ecosystem we're talking about, there are 15,884 WordPress plug-ins, 11,216 Drupal modules and 8070 Joomla extensions available at the time of this writing.ĭrupal, being the older product, has a larger and more active developer community. Near the beginning of this article, I mentioned that all of these CMSs have very vibrant and active communities. ![]()
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