Although it may seem so, I haven’t been procrastinating my blog posts, I’ve been reading and collecting links as I work on graduate projects. I write them offline to later add on a rainy day. Ironic for me to think it saves time by writing then transferring online when I could just write online and post when I’m ready. Only proof I’m not a Millennial, digital native and still feel safer with a pen and paper. This post comes after a little exploring into different open source content management systems. I wanted to see a side-by-side comparison and found this handy blog post by Robert Mening with infographic chart of the leaders in the business.

WordPress is what we’ve had experience in with this course and is the most popular by at least 100 million downloads! However for ‘Ease of Moderation’, WordPress falls behind. Joomla wins for ease-of-use even while being the most technically advanced and used for complicated purposes like social media and e-commerce. Without more training in PHP, I think it may be more of a challenge when troubleshooting becomes necessary. Joomla is powerful for building social networking and e-commerce too but makes it possible for anyone less versed in programming languages. Choosing one over another may come with fear of being wedded to that CMS, but according to this post, it is possible to migrate a site from one to another.

WordPress is just the beginning for me and so far so good, but I would like to wrap my head around e-commerce and social networking since it comes up in my current job. All in all, I want a grasp of all three CMS’s so that if a client prefers one over another I’ll be able to deliver and use any to build a new site or modify current sites.

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Which CMS to love best and when