5 reasons to migrate from Joomla to Wordpress

After being a Joomla user for over 3 years, I have decided to migrate to the Wordpress platform. Here are my 5 reasons behind the decision.

1. Community orientation: Joomla and Drupal are designed for community oriented websites with its built in features like the restricting content access to members-only. Wordpress has no such built in features. So if you need a website where you would want to provide multiple levels of access, you will be better off with a Joomla or Drupal. I think Wordpress works much better meant for one-to-one communication .i.e. between you and your reader. Of course, there are third party Wordpress plug-ins that’ll help you do it.
2. Development cycles: Joomla is a good content management system but the evolution is very slow when you compare it to Wordpress. Joomla 1.5 took a long time before it was released on the wire. In the meanwhile, Wordpress is much faster and releasing updates and fixing bugs. So if you are want to take advantage of the latest publishing trend, you would be better off using Wordpress.
3. Compatibility test: Wordpress wins this battle without a doubt. Be it a website monetization program like Text Link Ads or the latest video commenting system. Chances are that these add-on services will be first developed for Wordpress and then for Joomla or Drupal.
4. Community participation: Wordpress wins this battle too. There are far more freely downloadable extensions or plugins for Wordpress than Joomla/Drupal. The same is true about themes or design templates. The reason for this is the larger, more pro-active developer and more innovative developer community. Also, most of the good plug-ins for Joomla need to be paid for as opposed to all the fantastic Wordpress plug-ins available for free.
5. Import and export features: Wordpress trumps again. The importing feature is a breeze and the export is breezier! Moving from Joomla 1.0 to Wordpress 2.7 was a painful process due to lack of any sort of migration features in Joomla. I would always recommend choosing a CMS that makes it easier to migrate out of its garden.

Joomla has served me well over the last 3 years but its time to move on.

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