Joomla is often seen as a compromise between WordPress and Drupal. It is a powerful content management system. It does not require the same level of technical experience to run as Drupal, but it still offers many of the extra features. Like Drupal and WordPress, Joomla does have a lot of plug-ins and themes available to choose from. Other reasons people choose Joomla include:

• Commerce sites – If you want to set up an online store; that is also very simple with Joomla. While it is certainly possible with Drupal and WordPress, Joomla makes it faster and easier, and has more native support for these types of things.
• Not too technical – In many people’s opinions, Joomla has found that middle ground between the ease of managing a WordPress website, and the power of a Drupal site.
• Help portal – Joomla offers a great help portal for asking questions and getting technical support. It is not going to be as fast or extensive as the community based support pages of WordPress, but it is quicker than technical support most people get for Drupal.
• Free – Like Drupal, Joomla is free to use on your own web servers, but there is no option to have it hosted for free like WordPress offers.

Many Joomla users love it because it is powerful, yet easy to use. Joomla has done an excellent job at combining the benefits of WordPress and Drupal, and adding in some great features of its own. It has been growing in popularity over the past several years, and it is likely to continue to do so. Joomla seems to have found a big market of people who are ready for something a little more powerful than WordPress, but easier to manage than Drupal.

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