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Joomla or WordPress and membership sites?

03-06-2013, 05:52 PM

Some of my webmaster-clients have been asking: Which is better for a membership site: Joomla or WordPress?

Along with your opinion, please state which one you're using on your membership site.

Please feel free to render your thoughts on security, ease-of-use, reliability, support, etc.

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03-06-2013, 07:31 PM

either one
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03-06-2013, 08:15 PM

Drupal ...

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03-06-2013, 08:17 PM

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03-06-2013, 08:19 PM

Originally posted by 2013

either one

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03-06-2013, 09:18 PM

I've seen a few webmaster running WordPress for their members area. I've never seen anyone running Joomla. Personally I think Joomla is a resource hog and you need a fast server to run it. I would also say look into ElevatedX for your membership area, not cheap, but well worth the investment if you are planning on growing more sites and a network.
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03-08-2013, 11:24 AM

WordPress have more options for customization: plugins, themes. Also for 3rd part payments they have plugins for better integration. For some of mine sites i use s2member pro plugin, who have 3-4 options for payments, different levels of memberships, drip feed of content, clips, etc.

Joomla is more stable + better security and lot of community/membership sites use this platform. Minus for me is the hard way for on page seo. But for this they have some good extensions.

May be is a good idea to create 2 sample sites - one on WordPress and one on Joomla and to find pros and cons of the two systems.
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03-08-2013, 11:31 AM

I would say it depends on the number of members. I'd use wordpress for a smaller site, and probably drupal or joomla for a larger one if going with a mainstream CMS. For my own paysites I always write the code for my own CMS systems.

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03-08-2013, 11:38 AM

Either, but Wordpress has more of a following.

You can build anything with Drupal, if you know what you are doing.

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03-08-2013, 11:42 AM

Drupal is for people who really know what they're doing.

Wordpress is for people who love the massive amount of plugins.

Joomla is for people who want to spend most of the time checking for security updates because they got hacked, again.

Personally, I'll never use joomla again. Installed every security hack I could find. Had some 'experts' look into it, still I was hacked repeatedly. On a damn dev site!

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03-08-2013, 04:06 PM

if it was for an adult site i would go another route, if its mainstream members, i would go with wordpress.

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03-08-2013, 05:02 PM

Originally posted by Populace

Drupal is for people who really know what they're doing.

Wordpress is for people who love the massive amount of plugins.

Joomla is for people who want to spend most of the time checking for security updates because they got hacked, again.

Personally, I'll never use joomla again. Installed every security hack I could find. Had some 'experts' look into it, still I was hacked repeatedly. On a damn dev site!

If you look at the stats Joomla gets hacked less than wordpress installations HOWEVER you need to keep in mind ALL sites could be hacked or otherwise fucked with if someone who knows what they are doing really has a bug up their ass about you no matter the platform.

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03-08-2013, 07:30 PM

look at it this way: since they're asking, I have to assume they're not too tech-savvy, so Drupal is out of the question. So you can narrow it to both CMS you're mentioning. WP is hands down easier, faster and more expandable than Joomla. Plus, for every Joomla site you'll have 100 WP sites, so, unless the vast majority is wrong and clueless, there you have your answer.

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03-08-2013, 07:34 PM

on a side note, just right now I'm converting a Drupal site to WP because our client got fed up with it. And this is the 3rd Drupal to WP conversion we're doing in the last 2-3 months, so I'm starting to think there's some kind of trend

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