{"id":96664,"date":"2017-05-09T11:00:46","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T11:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acqo.tkdemos.co\/blog\/?p=96664"},"modified":"2017-05-09T11:00:46","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T11:00:46","slug":"hard-choices-wordpress-vs-joomla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themeskingdom.com\/blog\/hard-choices-wordpress-vs-joomla\/","title":{"rendered":"Hard Choices: WordPress vs Joomla"},"content":{"rendered":"

WordPress is great. Joomla is great. But which is the greatest for you? Let’s find out.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s how you\u2019ll benefit from WordPress:<\/h2>\n

– It\u2019s beginner friendly.
\n– Plugins
\n– Themes
\n– Community of developers
\n– eCommerce or shops
\n– Free<\/p>\n

WordPress powers about a third of the entire internet. It\u2019s as popular as it gets. People like it because you can use it to do a bunch of stuff. You can run a blog, sure, but these days it\u2019s mostly used to build ENTIRE websites from scratch. It\u2019s that powerful. But it’s also really beginner friendly. If you haven’t ever touched any website before, getting started with WordPress first is the best idea you could ever have. There’s a lot of tutorials, it’s well documented, and probably the easiest to get started with (Ghost is *the* easiest, but it’s not as powerful). This doesn’t mean WordPress is easy, but it’s the easiest way to start from scratch.<\/p>\n

Plugins are a pretty big deal. They change how your WordPress site works by adding more functionality. And there\u2019s a lot of them. From anything to everything, there\u2019s probably a WordPress plugin for that.<\/p>\n

Themes are a great way to change how your WordPress website looks. Think of it like changing protection masks for your phone. And thankfully there\u2019s hundreds of thousands of them available for free and for purchase.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a huge community of developers around WP. Basically, there\u2019s always a willing developer somewhere out there who will customise a WordPress website for you.<\/p>\n

Finally, if you want to start selling something without investing thousands of currencies into your inventory and what not, you can! WordPress has a lot of great ecommerce plugins that process payments for you, and a lot of shop themes that make your website look like an online shop!<\/p>\n

WordPress\u2019 code is open source and completely free. You can download it, change it, do what you want with it. But you still need to pay for hosting and a domain name.<\/p>\n

The downsides of WordPress:<\/h2>\n