Should You Do Something Just Because Everyone Else is Doing it? Sometimes.

But Here Are Some Other Good Reasons.

1. Joomla! is Fast and Scalable

With its PHP 7.x support; speed is even faster than before. Joomla! and PHP 7 combine to give excellent performance with much less memory used; the default front-end page initialization consumed only 8.49 MB of memory.

What’s more, Joomla! scales up really well in terms of content such as articles, categories and especially registered users. Your plans may start off as relatively small-scale, but the nature of the internet means you could find your site suddenly expanding its userbase, and you should be prepared for that eventuality. Should you wish to allow people to register (which means collecting some user-data) or create content then it makes much more sense to go with a platform that can meet the potential demand, since as people register your database will keep getting bigger and bigger. For Joomla!, it makes no difference whether you’ve got three registered users or 300,000.

2. Joomla is not Just a CMS; it is a Framework too

It’s not widely-known among developers who aren’t Joomla!-focused, but the Joomla! name actually refers to two different products; the CMS itself, and the Joomla! PHP framework on which the CMS is built. This framework is a collection of useful libraries and packages that are well-known from the Joomla! CMS, but without the overhead found in the Joomla! Content Management System. The Joomla! Framework is great for building command-line tools which are often necessary when running large-scale projects; this is extremely useful for job schedulers like cron, and the Joomla! Framework may help you to build RESTful services and create integrations with 3rd party services.

3. Joomla is Extendable

Now, Joomla! allows for the creation of three different types of extension, each for a slightly different purpose:
Components, modules and plugins

laying-out design and development plans

Most big web projects will deal in some way with custom development, either changing the default behavior of the CMS or adding new features specific to the project. With Joomla! it couldn’t be easier thanks to the full range of extensions available for creation, each targeting a different area. Starting with components, the biggest brick in the custom development foundation; with this we can create new views, database structures and options for back-end and front-end as well. With modules we can easily widen our options for content presentation, even when it requires some kind of super-custom form. Of course modules may be used for more than that, since they can be linked with external sources and much more. Plugins are the most advanced ones but the easiest to write at the same time; by using the Joomla! API you can create your own plugin with just a few lines of code, then hook it into every single Joomla! event as needed, like login user, before/after render content etc…it’s a huge amount of flexibility, and with these three types Joomla! is open for third-party code and offers unique opportunities in almost every aspect of site development; don’t want to use the default captcha plugin? No problem, you can just download different one from Joomla! Extensions Directory or write a brand new one. Don’t like the default editor? There are many custom ones which you can install with one click to ease you into content creation.

Overrides

For larger, unique projects, you’ll want the flexibility to add personal touches everywhere to ensure your site stands out from others built on the same base, and with Joomla! you can override all generic views. Of course you could recode this from scratch, but what’s the point when this CMS gives you such a powerful overrides engine? With it you can modify the output of core and custom components and modules without writing extra code, and all you have to do is to copy the original view and modify it for your own purpose. It couldn’t be easier!

4. Templates

One of the biggest Joomla! advantages is its large and diverse templates market. Of course we can’t compare it to the huge amount of themes available for WordPress, but there are some major differences between WP themes and Joomla! templates that gives Joomla! the edge. First off, WP themes are in most cases very simple, focused on styling the base generic view without any additions expanding the layouts or features. Often, theme creators sell single products with limited guarantees in terms of future updates, customization or technical support apart from basic documentation. In Joomla! markets the best templates come from templates clubs where creating this kind of product is at the core of their business, with ongoing technical support and updates, not just to work with newer versions of Joomla! but also incorporating bugfixes or new features; you may even get help with minor custom changes. Joomla! templates from these sources are often tightly-focused compared to the broad, generic WordPress market thanks to the availability of powerful extensions that provide a massive amount of features. Look at extensions such as JomSocial and SolidRes, which offer features you’d be hard-pressed to find in an equivalent WordPress plugin; this allows for templates to be perfectly suited to a particular industry, rather than general blogging layouts that are common to WordPress themes.

5. Joomla is a Community

Joomla! is more than just a CMS or framework; its community is uniquely passionate, close-knit and knowledgeable, with meetings happening every year in many local events like Joomla! Days as well as the main Joomla! World Conference, which brings it all together. As well as the social aspect, it’s big, but not too big; big enough to ensure that answers are always just a click away, but small enough that individual voices are not lost in the din. This makes the Joomla! community a great place to learn and share your knowledge, as well as contribute to Joomla’s wider success.