![]() Feel the pain for a commercial site with running a full complement of plugins. There are no security releases only new versions. You have to keep upgrading your site, whether you like it or not, for security reasons. Weak static page management without adding plugins.Really crappy commercial themes which are heavily marketed but compromise your ability to either upgrade or switch themes and compromise performance for the life of your site.Lots of popular but seriously broken plugins which will cripple your website performance forever and make it nearly impossible for you to cleanly upgrade (NextGen Gallery, I’m looking at you but not just you).Lots of really crap faker developers in the pool who couldn’t build a working website to save their mother’s life.Fairly weak core code (in comparison to Drupal, but not Joomla!) but core getting better every year.Particular thanks to Mark Jaquith for keeping the community running with less nepotism and more fairness than most collective human endeavour. Active leadership from Automattic and founding team.A WordPress site does not have to look like a WordPress site. ![]() Easy to optimise for performance thanks to Donncha O Caoimh and Frederick Townes.Developer pricing is all over the map as there are many old-school Mambo/Joomla developers still ought there churning out convoluted future-resistant code quite affordably.Anyone who likes to code in Joomla/Mambo in 2011 ought to see a psychiatrist. Fractured community (never healed after Joomla/Mambo split back in 2006).Leading SEO plugin belongs to a very peculiar developer and is encrypted (have fun repairing the SEO plugin, we reverse engineered and decrypted it for our site to make our changes even after paying for it). A Mambo/Joomla site looks like Mambo/Joomla, like it or not. Built-in performance pretty sluggish/clunky.Built-in membership/community features. ![]() You’re going to have to get your hands dirty almost every time. ![]()
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