Both Joomla and WordPress have many similarities at their core and offer everything one would expect from a modern CMS system. You can easily create all the pages and menus you need, handling media files is straightforward, and you can modify almost all parts of the page in terms of design and content.

However, when it comes to the amount of essential functionality built into the system from the start, Joomla wins, often making it the better choice. We will provide an explanation based on our experience below.

As a company's primary marketing platform is often still the website, security ranks high when choosing a CMS system. Both Joomla and WordPress prioritize security highly, and when both are correctly configured, maintained, and strong passwords are used, the risk of being hacked is quite low.

WordPress lacks these built-in security features. To achieve the same functions in WordPress, we typically install several separate plugins, making a WordPress installation more complex right from the start.

Imagine building a website where you need to present consistently formatted data for your products, food recipes, club information, etc. By default, WordPress pages only allow for creating simple pages, and you won't be able to structure data.

In Joomla, however, you have the ability to create custom fields that can hold various data formats, and it's a powerful tool.

It's useful in situations where, for instance, you have articles that need to showcase recipes for food, knitting, drinks, etc. Beyond the recipe description, they typically always have a list of ingredients, time consumption, quantities, temperature, etc. Even though one could simply write this information in the text, custom fields allow you to pre-set data so you or others always use the same data when creating new articles. This ensures consistency for visitors and speeds up the workflow when creating numerous new pages.

But beyond improving workflow, custom fields also allow users to better search or sort your articles. So, your users can now more quickly find recipes with their favorite ingredient, for example. This provides a better user experience.

Make it easy for yourself, your employees, and users to create and navigate complex pages with custom fields.

Broken or changed links can be a problem for both your users and SEO. Non-working links leave a poor impression on your visitors, potentially resulting in lost conversions. This issue is resolved with redirection.

Joomla comes with built-in URL redirection. You can fix all broken links with redirection in Joomla. Joomla also provides a login redirect, so you can direct your users after they've logged into your website. This is particularly useful if you have users logging in for courses, materials, etc.

Cache is a type of data temporarily stored on the server to speed up the website loading process. Typically, caching significantly enhances a server's speed. When you enable cache on your website, it will load much faster in your client's browser than a regular website.

Joomla comes with a built-in caching service. You don't need to rely on external extensions to do this. Simply activate the caching setting, and cache the page and browser as needed. With Joomla 4, we typically don't use caching as the code is already optimal and the servers we use are always top-notch.

Unfortunately, WordPress doesn't have such a caching function. However, there are numerous plugins available, but one must be careful as we've found some do more harm than good.

During the website development process, especially when adding new functionalities, we often encounter errors that can be hard to trace. To resolve the error, we make use of various debuggers, and fortunately, Joomla comes with a built-in debugger console. It simply needs to be activated from the global configuration, and we can start debugging.

While regular users don't typically need a debugger console, for developers, it's an invaluable feature, demonstrating that Joomla thinks a bit more long-term than most CMS systems.

Som en almindelig bruger har du ikke behov for en debugger-konsol, men for os som udviklere er det en virkelig god feature og vidner om at Joomla tænker lidt længere end de fleste CMS systemer.  

Emails are an essential service for any business. Without email, you risk losing valuable conversions, information, and money. When installing a CMS like Joomla or WordPress on a server, you typically get a default email service like PHP mailer, but it's often an insecure way to send emails as the sent emails too often end up in the spam inbox.

That's why you should utilize authorized mail services like Office 365, Gmail, SendGrid, Amazon SES, SparkPost, Mandrill, etc. In WordPress, you need to install a third-party plugin to use any of these mail services. Therefore, you should ensure you use one of the best SMTP plugins for WordPress. Don't worry; we've found it.

Joomla comes with a built-in SMTP service that you can trust without hesitation. The best part about Joomla is that you don't need to install any additional extensions. Activate the mail settings, select SMTP, and you're set. Joomla's SMTP saves time and money and is free from vulnerabilities.

Managing a website isn't always straightforward, especially when you're part of a larger team. Multiple users can make changes to a site, and when several people are administrating a website, it's crucial to log the modifications made by a user or system administrator. Should anyone make unwanted adjustments, they can be pinpointed and rolled back by consulting the log.

Joomla comes with a built-in user action log, so you don't have to worry about anything going wrong. You can log all events, including articles, banners, cache, categories, configuration manager, contacts, installers, media, menus, messaging, module manager, news feeds, plugins, redirects, tags, templates, users, etc.