Compare Concrete5 vs. Joomla!

Concrete 5 is a long running content management system. It is known for it's user friendly interface and with it's recent iterations has moved to adopt Symfony components.

Joomla! is one of the big three PHP CMSes. Currently it uses only a single component from the Symfony project. Joomla remains a strong contender with a large number of users and extensions.

• Ease of use
• Extensions marketplace
• Reasonably sized community

• Large developer and user base
• Plenty of ready made extensions available
• Tried and tested basic concepts

• Product versioning can be confusing
• Not many examples for complex implementations
• Multilingual architecture not top notch

• Administration can be confusing
• Lack of focus, tries to do everything
• Codebase is a mix of old and new