We have choices when it comes to CMSs, but two of the most widely used CMS are Joomla and WordPress. Though there is a tussle to come to a conclusion on which CMS is better no one can deny the fact that both have certain edges over each other. The following article explains why Joomla can be preferred over WordPress.

Joomla are WordPress are probably two of the most dominant content management system that is being used in the present time. Even though both the CMSs are preferred by professionals around the world, there are advantages over each other. Both are in open source but each have distinct advantages over each other some way or the other.

But many believe that Joomla has some great advantages over WordPress which makes Joomla the formidable choice for many users and developers. Let us have a look at some of the points that prove Joomla to be a better CMS than WordPress.

• For many users Joomla is that much needed tool for creating redirects. Many developers and designers used different tools for the same purpose but were less successful with suck tools. That is one of the cleanest edges that Joomla has over WordPress.
• One of the strongest parts of Joomla is its developer community. An email can solve the problem quiet efficiently. The support is really good compared to that of WordPress which is another encouragement to prefer Joomla over WordPress.
• Chicklets are another feature that is another strong point of Joomla. Chicklets are the small icons by which you subscribe to an RSS feed with your reader of choice. Basically the Feedburner will automatically create them if you simply copy and paste the code into a module. This embedding feature helps you to prefer Joomla.
• WordPress is more of a blogging tool and it can be customized into a CMS while Joomla in itself is a powerful CMS and so it is more versatile than WordPress. Joomla is a full on CMS with blogging facility.
• The Joomla layouts are more flexible than that of WordPress. In Joomla, you can just simply present the content as a blog and style it elegantly, easily and quickly while it is very awkward to create a layout in WordPress.

These are some of the general advantages that Joomla has over WordPress and which is also reasons enough for users and developers to prefer Joomla instead of WordPress.  This doesn’t mean that WordPress is inferior to Joomla; it’s just that Joomla has a little edge over WordPress under certain conditions.