Reviews of Joomla!

1. 
   hariskar

   Reviewing 1.7.0 Alpha 1 (Jun 7, 2011)

   5 stars for a great product, with which I very easily made my site.
2. 
   NotSoSkilledUser

   Reviewing 1.6 Beta 15 (Dec 1, 2010)

   hariskar, 1 star to to you for paying attention to ballyhairs
   1 star to me too for the same reason and for my poor english :-)
   
   The mighty Joomla would deserve 6 big stars IMHO!
3. 
   madmike

   Reviewing 1.6 Beta 13 (Nov 8, 2010)

   Tis very good for CMS sites and can grow with your needs, on the minus side: it stinks with SEO and for the end user, a steep learning curve awaits.
4. 
   aszure

   Reviewing 1.6.0 Beta 7 (Aug 10, 2010)

   @Ballyhair Yeah...Joomla is a bad name, and Ballyhair isn't?
   
   Joomla is just excellent. I have been using it for years. Great CMS
5. 
   hariskar

   Reviewing 1.6.0 Beta 3 (Jun 16, 2010)

   ballyhairs, are you a moron? How do you rate a software if you don't know what it is? 2 stars just because you don't like the name??
   5 stars from me for a great product, with which I very easily made my site.
6. 
   ballyhairs

   Reviewing 1.6.0 Beta 3 (Jun 16, 2010)

   I don't know what your software is all about, but..
   What an ugly name :(
7. 
   S_K

   Reviewing 1.6.0 Beta 1 (May 19, 2010)

   Joomla is an excellent content management system, which is very flexible, configurable, and relevant to a slew of web and organisational applications.
8. 
   mjm01010101

   Reviewing 1.6.0 Alpha 2 (Oct 27, 2009)

   Horrible security. Continually.
9. 
   gorgeth

   Reviewing 1.6.0 Alpha (Jun 23, 2009)

   Great product, though it should NOT be on this site as it is not software per-se, and it has its very own distribution site at www.joomla.org
10. 
    djtf

    Reviewing 1.6.0 Alpha (Jun 23, 2009)

    I use on our Server Data Center! A State-of-the-Art Software and very usefull! I recommend it! Works flawless! ;-)
11. 
    peeterm

    Reviewing 1.5.11 (Jun 12, 2009)

    To Netean.
    
    We have Server 2008 and we have provide Joomla one click install service for our customers. Setting up on Server 2008 wasn't complicated. We are using PHP Fast CGI setting.
    
    http://www.folderburg.com
12. 
    dhry

    Reviewing 1.5.11 (Jun 4, 2009)

    Nowhere NEAR as flexible and user-friendly as XOOPS (www.xoops.org).
13. 
    anomoly

    Reviewing 1.5.11 (Jun 3, 2009)

    I wouldn't dare touch this probably ever, after reading the joomla forum security issues, such as:
    "Doing things 2 or 3 times only to have some turkish or persian teenager hack it gets real old, real quick. I guess there really is something to doing it yourself.
    
    Thanks for an informative ride, joomla. You can let me off here. >:("
    
    It seems the basic code is flawed. real 3rd world coding
14. 
    mjm01010101

    Reviewing 1.5.11 (Jun 3, 2009)

    Yeah I stand by my statement. http://secunia.com/advis...s/search/?search=joomla!
    
    Years of crap sec vulns...
15. 
    netean

    Reviewing 1.5.8 (Nov 12, 2008)

    looks great, but wouldn't install on windows 2008. My Isp and I tried for about 10 days to get it up and running without success!
16. 
    RSMurphy

    Reviewing 1.5.8 (Nov 11, 2008)

    @mjm01010101
    
    You obviously didn't bother to read the infor you point to at http://secunia.com/advisories/32622 but that's ok, I'll be glad to help you out . . .
    
    "Successful exploitation requires access to the weblink submission form.
    
    The vulnerabilities are reported in version 1.5.7 and prior.
    
    Solution:
    Update to version 1.5.8"
    
    Your low rating is meaningless. Please, if you are going to trash someone's work at least validate your claims.
    
    Joomla is a fine product, flexible and fun.
17. 
    mjm01010101

    Reviewing 1.5.8 (Nov 11, 2008)

    Insecure:
    http://secunia.com/advisories/32622/
18. 
    ZombieREA

    Reviewing 1.5.8 (Nov 11, 2008)

    Excellent CMS
    You can build anything you want from personal blog to eCommerical website.
    
    Demo: http://soulevil.net/blog
19. 
    elitegangsta

    Reviewing 1.5.4 (Jul 8, 2008)

    Outstanding CMS... uneasy about a few of the security issues reported. I am sure it will be secured shortly though. Excellent program though.
20. 
    mjm01010101

    Reviewing 1.5.4 (Jul 8, 2008)

    Might be a great CMS, but man is it insecure. Many vulnerabilities reported...
21. 
    Diam0nd

    Reviewing 1.5.4 (Jul 8, 2008)

    One of the best CMS systems on the market. Love it. Has some AMAZING skins, simply amazing.
22. 
    pbwallis

    Reviewing 1.5.2 (Mar 25, 2008)

    Excellent CMS! Very active group working on it, making improvements and fixing things. 1.5.2 is the stable version of the major update from 1.0.x
    
    Demo site is http://demo.joomla.org/
23. 
    Diam0nd

    Reviewing 1.5.2 (Mar 24, 2008)

    One of the best CMSs out there. Really excellent.
24. 
    Diam0nd

    Reviewing 1.5.1 (Feb 13, 2008)

    Excellent CMS.
25. 
    why hello there

    Reviewing 1.5.1 (Feb 12, 2008)

    Are you people really too retarded to use google?
    http://www.opensourcecms...p;task=view&id=2097
26. 
    ninjeratu

    Reviewing 1.5.1 (Feb 12, 2008)

    What mikeeberhart said.
    They haven't even updated the text (version number) telling us that the demo is unavailable. Weak.
27. 
    mikeeberhart

    Reviewing 1.5 RC4 (Dec 20, 2007)

    I give this a 1 for the simple reason that I have WANTED to review the product for well over a month, but their online demo site is "offline" yet, and it still refers to version 1.5rc1 on the demo page, meaning this hasn't been updated in ages (and likely will not be).
    
    Sure, I could install locally, but I really just wanted to check it out online to see if it would be worth a detailed onsite review. I'm sure I am not the only one looking at the product site and then just leaving when I can't view a demo. Seems prudent to put the demo online if you are going to publish a news-release that would attract potential users.
28. 
    hell0

    Reviewing 1.5 RC3 (Oct 8, 2007)

    Joomla is the most easy to use, if not the best, CMS available right now. It's good on its own, but with new components and "Mambots" you can do practically everything that big-name sites like MySpace, CNN, or *****tube are doing. Unlike Wordpress, it's not blog-centric, and unlike Drupal, you don't have to be a PHP programmer to use it effectively.
29. 
    Ain Soph Aur

    Reviewing 1.5 RC2 (Sep 8, 2007)

    for me the best CMS out there! just try it. there are a lot of addons and it looks great.
30. 
    pjosephson

    Reviewing 1.5 RC (Jul 23, 2007)

    There truly is very little competition for the new 1.5 of Joomla. All the work done in just little over a year since the split from Mambo is amazing. I like Drupal and give it high marks also but it is not nearly as complete a system as Joomla. I usually don't review a project (yes, shame on me) but, I had to rebut several of Ian C. comments below. First, Joomla has a real backend (unlike Drupal which cannot make up its mind - you Drupal users know what I mean), secondly SEF (search friendly urls) are built-in into 1.5 just turn them on in the config; not to mention that there are probably a dozen free add-ons (and several commercial ones too) for the current 1.0.13. The developer community for Joomla is much larger than any other system (see extensions.joomla.org). Most if not all those supposed commercial extensions have nothing comparable at Drupal or any other open CMS (most offer free versions of their products also). Yes, there a some things that other systems do better (not many) but for all its worth Joomla is hands down the best out there right now and Joomla 1.5 cements this fact even more so. I will admit, the one negative aspect about 1.5 is going the upgrade path from the current 1.0 code. In my opinion (and others) this is will not be as fluid as I would have liked but never-the-less it looks to worth the small hassle that users may encounter.
31. 
    Ian C.

    Reviewing 1.5 Beta 2 (May 11, 2007)

    Joomla is decent, I used it for several years, even before it branched off from Mambo. However it is very slow compared to lots of other CMS web apps. Not only that, but unfortunately many of the big closed source/commercial modules followed it over from Mambo. For example, it doesn't have clean URL's natively, and if you want a module that does that, the only one available is a commercial product :(. Also the development is extremely slow, and I would attribute that to the outrageously huge and unorganized/monolithic code base.
    
    I found Drupal (www.drupal.org) not to long ago, which is also an open source CMS. I would recommend everyone try Drupal. With Drupal making new templates from scratch takes days, not weeks like it does with Joomla. Drupal has built in clean URL support, not to mention lots of other things Joomla only has as addons, a much cleaner admin interface, and a much much smaller and more organized code base, not to mention blazing fast development.
    
    Edit: actually upon reviewing the Joomla addon site, it appears that a large portion of the addons are commercially licensed. Which is definately worth bumping this review down from a 3 to a 2. I had no idea that much of the commercial/closed source community had followed Joomla.
32. 
    ZenoLabs

    Reviewing 1.5 Beta 2 (May 10, 2007)

    Great CMS with tons of components, modules, plugins and templates that let you deeply customize your website and easily manage/update it.
    Give it a try, it's opensource!
33. 
    Diam0nd

    Reviewing 1.5 Beta 2 (May 10, 2007)

    Good stuff.
34. 
    rpertusio

    Reviewing 1.5 Beta 2 (May 10, 2007)

    Joomla! is one of the best available! Forget managing your website by hand... let Joomla! do all the work. Hundreds upon hundreds of extensions available (extensions.joomla.org) to make Joomla! work for you.
    
    It's worth a try, especially for personal or corporate websites! (Oh, and it is free too!)
    
    -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
    Response to 'Ian C.' a few reviews above...
    
    Your review is somewhat inaccurate. In the 1.5 (beta 2) you reviewed, it supports Search-Engine-Friendly (SEF) URLs. Simply enable it in the Configuration.
    
    There are about 10x free extensions for Joomla compared to Commercial extensions. Although I'm not one to heavily use commercial extensions, I would see it as a positive sign that commercial developers see Joomla as a worthy CMS. The flexibility and ease of use is a major drawing factor for Joomla, including commercial extension developers.

Discuss Joomla!

1. Jun 23, 2009 - 8:45 PM
   ecvogel

   What are the changes? Not for a novice, editor even when getting your own does not allow for full editing. WordPress still seems to be best even if the website seems a little bloggy. Someone suggested Movable Type. but not all hosts give you root access to install. Well mine does for a extra monthly fee. Till that allows for a install like WP or Joomla forget it.