The content management systems WordPress, Joomla and TYPO3 in comparison

In order to attract and retain as many visitors as possible with a corporate website, you need attractive content: text, images, videos and graphics not only offer added value for readers and users, they are also positively registered by search engines. But this content must first be managed, published, updated and communicated. Content management systems help you with this: They offer the advantage that once set up, new content and images can be quickly and easily adjusted, optimized or changed. However, in the digital age that we are currently in, there are so many content management systems in the sand, in numbers between 250 and 300 in the market. From enterprise to community and collaboration solutions and simple kits solutions, it's all there.

We provide you with an overview of the most important requirements for a CMS and, in addition, a comparison of the best-known open source solutions.

Comparison of TYPO3 CMS

TYPO3 has more than six million downloads worldwide, in addition to WordPress and Joomla! probably the most well-known open-source CMS in our CMS comparison and increasingly used in Europe. According to builtwith, this makes 8.16% in Germany, just behind Joomla! with 9.93% of the used content management systems in Germany. The enterprise content management system is offered in more than 50 languages and over 5000 extensions. TYPO3 is widely used mainly in German-speaking countries, where the CMS is considered a parade solution for large corporate portals and e-commerce platforms. But TYPO3 is probably also the most misused CMS: The system is complex and can do more than most need for their site.
Official TYPO3 website: http://typo3.org/
Download TYPO3 for free: http://typo3.org/download/

Advantages of TYPO3 compared to other CM

Integrated rights management is very comprehensive compared to other content management systems and allows administrators to set different roles and rights for users. Other positive aspects:

• The modular structure, the comparatively strong configuration language Typoscript and the possibility to outsource changes of the code with XClasses locally, make TYPO3 almost infinitely extensible and adaptable.
• The system is widespread, so you can always find help with experts.
• The CMS is constantly being developed, so you are always up to date with the latest technology.
• Many developers extend the CMS with templates (layouts), plug-ins and widgets.

Disadvantages of TYPO

The learning curve is rather shallow for developers compared to the other systems, and installation, configuration, and administration require expertise to avoid TYPO3 errors. Here, however, offer a variety of books and documentation help. Other negative aspects:

• The CMS needs a database, the server settings are not so easy for the end user to master.

Conclusion about TYPO3:

TYPO3 distinguishes itself in our CMS comparison by the orientation as enterprise content management system and plays its strengths above all with larger and or complex Internet, extranet or Intranet projects.

WordPress compared to other content management systems

The comparatively high level of popularity of WordPress can be easily illustrated with the nine million downloads and over 41,000 plugins and extensions. WordPress is the most widely used open source CMS in our CMS comparison worldwide. Originally conceived and developed as a blog system, the basic installation now includes a number of enhancements that make it possible to upgrade the software to a fully functional content management system - in the meantime, there are hardly any functions for a website that would not be possible with WordPress.
But the CMS has lost its simplicity: it used to be small, compact and stylish - today it is relatively large, complex and cumbersome.
Offizial WordPress page: http://wpde.org/
Download WordPress for free: http://wpde.org/download/

Benefits of WordPress compared to CM

WordPress' popular "five-minute installation" and the extremely easy-to-use administration interface have all contributed significantly to the system's proliferation. Add to that the simple integration of plugins, the variety of free themes and the convenient update. Search engine friendly URLs (real URLs) can be set up without installing extensions. A big community and a good documentation complete the package very well. Additional advantages:

• • The effort for installation and setup is manageable.
  • There are a huge number of templates - both free and for little money.
  • Extensions like plugins and widgets allow a lot of features.
  • WordPress works well for search engine optimization.

Disadvantages of WordPress as a content management system

Functions of larger portals, such as multilingual pages, are only supported via a plugin. They are therefore relatively expensive to manage and not, as usual in WordPress, intuitive and often have security vulnerabilities. The setting up of roles and rights is unfortunately supported only conditionally by WordPress, but can be extended by plugins if required.
Biggest problem: With many visitors on your side, the demands on the database server are high.
WordPress delivers many updates, unfortunately partly with security risks.

Conclusion to WordPress:

WordPress is the best choice if a page is mainly specialized in blogging or news, with relatively simple page structures. However, if a stable website operation is desired, WordPress places comparatively high demands on the server in the event of a high volume of visitors. Users looking for complex multi-domain projects with multi-lingual targeting should opt for an enterprise content management system such as TYPO3 instead of WordPress.

Joomla! as a CMS in comparison

With 2.5 million installations worldwide, Joomla! the second largest representative on the CMS market. Joomla is a very common content management system solution, especially in the US. The number of downloads is in the clear double-digit million range. The CMS is aimed equally at beginners and advanced, but in the application is more sophisticated than WordPress. Unlike the market leader, extensive CMS functionality is already provided without any enhancements. A bonus for laymen without a professional IT background is the good documentation in the form of community-based online manuals and the active user forum.Offizielle Joomla!-Page: http://www.joomla.de/
Download Joomla! for free: http://www.joomla.org/download.html

Benefits of Joomla! CMS:

The installation is not quite as easy as WordPress, but still manageable and without any expertise to accomplish. The same applies to the management of content, if the principle was understood that content is managed not object-based, but object-based. The generation of templates is extremely user-friendly and provides a modular template creation through the dynamic allocation of individual, predefined content elements, much like Templa Voila at TYPO3. Joomla is completely object based on the MVC framework (model View Controller) and gives developers the option to program custom extensions for Joomla.

• The installation and setup of the CMS are simple and well documented.
• There are loads of extensions and ready-made designs

Disadvantages of Joomla! as content management system:

Extensions in Joomla are divided into plugins, components and modules that can be used again in the frontend and backend. This is not always intuitive and can sometimes cause irritation. Other issues that usually only play a role in larger projects are rights management and approval processes. Unfortunately, the mature extensions are sometimes chargeable, or they require a registration with the provider.

• The system offers some attack possibilities to hackers, since the system is only really usable with many extensions.
• The management of the rights, so who in the system what is allowed, is not really good.

Conclusion about Joomla!:

Joomla basically supports more complex page structures than WordPress, but is not as flexible as TYPO3, because only one main content element can be assigned. Joomla is therefore ideal for small to large pages, if no release workflows and no multi-domain installations are required.