WordPress vs Joomla vs Drupal- A Healthy Comparison

While WordPress powers 23% (as the number is available on the web )of all websites on the internet, it’s not the only open source Content Management System in the market. There is some other really awesome CMS like Joomla and Drupal. All three of them have a lot in common, but they still have their own pros and cons. In this Post, we are going to compare WordPress vs Joomla vs Drupal to find out which is the best or to find out which is better than other.

Let us look at the similarities first:

• WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal are all free and open source software licensed under GPL (GNU General Public License).
• All three of them are written primarily in PHP as PHP is easy to use and can be learned easily.
• They all support MySQL as their database management system. WordPress exclusively supports only MySQL, while Joomla and Drupal support other database management systems.
• All three of them use themes and templates for the visual appearance of sites that helps an individual to get rid of designing and components placing headaches, and also provide Plugins to enhance the capability of a  Website,  and also provides modules or extensions for extending features.
• As open source software, Anyone can use them and can also get help whenever got stuck somewhere by other users.

While there are a lot of similarities, they are different in many aspects. They have different policies about what to include in the core software, how to handle modules and templates, how to deal with security, etc. These differences make a big impact on users, and how they build their websites.

Now Let us take a look at differences they possess:

Ease Of Use and A User-Friendly Interface

Most People who create websites are not web developer or programmer, so a CMS helps them with an interface that allows them to create their own online existence without having any prior technical knowledge.

1 ) WordPress :

WordPress comes with a very famous installation process that hardly takes five minutes. Most WordPress hosting providers also offer the one-click install of WordPress. This makes it fairly easy for a new user start a WordPress blog in minutes, not hours.

The post install user experience of WordPress is way better than Joomla or Drupal. The user sees a simple clean cut user interface with the menus to create posts, pages, or start customizing appearance and themes.

2) Joomla :

Joomla installation may not look as quick as WordPress, but it has very similar steps. Apart from that many shared hosting providers offer one-click install packages for Joomla as well.

After the installation, the user lands on a control panel that is not as straight forward as WordPress. There are just too many menus to click on and customize your site. Joomla fans would say that's because Joomla is a lot more powerful than WordPress, but we think it is kind of scary for a beginner.

3) Drupal :

Drupal’s installation is similar to both Joomla and WordPress. Simply download and upload the package and run the installation script.

Drupal also offers distributions. These are pre-packaged Drupal bundles with modules and configurations to create specific kind of websites.

The post installation experience for absolute beginners is a bit complicated. Users will find it difficult to figure out how to change things on their site. Drupal makes it very obvious how to add the content, but changing appearance and adding non-content elements is not very obvious.

Conclusion : As Per the installation process we can say that WordPress is way better than its competitors. Apart from ease of installation and ease of use , WordPress also holds an upper hand in terms of themes and plugins that it provides and also the support that one gets while designing a website or a blog using WordPress.