WordPress emerged as a leading choice in creating a website for all forms of online activities: from small personal portfolios to business and e-commerce sites. It has an immense following and user community, and a massive list of developers who have always come up with different plugins for extending their capabilities.
That said, WordPress isn’t all-and-everything. Also, a variety of alternatives are currently available on the market.
This article will compare the top three most common WordPress options available — covering overall website building tools, content management systems, website platforms, and e-commerce platforms.
In short, both programs can be used as tools for creating new websites by relatively novice users. We will discuss their essential characteristics, their advantages, and drawbacks, and how each compares to WordPress.
Understanding the full spectrum of available knowledge allows you to choose the technology that best suits your particular needs and makes sure that you can run your site without too many hits.
Whether you’re an ordinary website developer or a relatively web specialist, there’s something for everyone.
Below is the listed top three popular WordPress alternatives
Joomla
Joomla is one of the web’s three most commonly used content management systems ( CMS) (Drupal and WordPress are the two others). It offers a ton of functionality right out of the gate. It can run any website — from simple landing pages to blogs, e-commerce, information websites, or official websites (e.g., government website) or even social networks.
Price: FREE
Basic characteristics:
- More than 64 languages, multilingual
- An integrated network of contextual assistance
- Media manager to access and handle all web file forms
- Control of banners/adverts
- Multiple contact information management for your site
- Advanced search management / search function
- The enhanced categorization of nestled types of content
- Editing of the front end from both the admin and the live site
- Build and maintain multiple menus
- Templates used for front and back end
- A broad library with almost 10,000 extensions
Pros:
Joomla provides excellent features in advanced user management, user groups, and even contact management. Across such units, WordPress has only basic features. Several integrated features (such as cache management, banner management, settings for advanced content authorization, etc.). You need plugins for WordPress to get most of them.
Cons:
Joomla can seem a little daunting because of the admin panel’s technical appearance. WordPress is very user friendly.
There is no official design/themes library.
Ideal for:
Websites with plenty of material.
It has advanced software projects that require strong content administration.
It is mostly used by Gov websites, education sites, social networks, industry sites, big publishing houses.
While Joomla was once an accessible – and influential – forum, it is no longer widely regarded as an ideal solution for forums.
A variety of significantly better solutions are probably available now if all you want is a relatively simple business site.
Drupal
Drupal is another part of the web’s most common Big Three CMS. It is probably the most technological and needs the most qualified person to use its abilities fully.
In a word: Software running your website with extensive content management functions
Price: FREE
Basic characteristics:
- Five parts of advanced management panel: material, design, staff, layout, and configuration
- Control of customer and authorization
- Multi-site use for a single deployment at multiple locations
- Multilingual, with over 70 languages
- Advanced content management and user rights monitoring to access, monitor, and build content.
- Total web display power, including subjects, views, jQuery integration and more
Pros:
There are over 16,000 new add-ons. However, with WordPress, you still get twice that number.
Cons:
There are only 584 active themes at the time of publishing while as you get thousands of themes with WordPress.
Drupal has a curve for learning. It takes time to create a good-looking, professional site from scratch. While WordPress is very easy to learn.
Ideal for:
It has advanced software projects that go beyond the traditional definition of the website.
Suppose you are a beginner and have no previous experience building websites.
You will almost certainly struggle to construct a site with Drupal and get it to a stage that looks great, can be used, and is understandable to non-expert administrative users.
Magento
Magento is a platform for e-commerce used in online shops. It’s basic Community version is free to download. There is also the Business edition, but it costs $18,000, so now we’re going to miss the one.
In short: e-commerce platform and software
Price: FREE
Basic characteristics:
- Advanced e-commerce functionality with inventory management, shipping costs calculation, voucher management, payment gateway options, shopping cart and more
- API Web Services
- About 5,000 replacements and supplements
- Customize the design of your store by themes
- Multilingual skills incorporated
- Blog module available through a free plugin
- Mobile apps and laptops optimized.
- Friendly to SEO
Pros:
Magento is, first and foremost, an e-commerce website. It provides advanced features.
In WordPress, e-commerce is available through the only plugin called Woocommerce.
Cons:
Most default payment gateways are not open.
Ideal for:
Company owners want to open an innovative e-commerce shop with a broad inventory, and several people are working together on one single item database.
While a real contender for large street chain stores needing competent platforms for personalized eCommerce websites can be created, this isn’t the most accessible program for unauthorized users to know, run, or change.