GPWA Times Magazine - Issue 26 - October 2013

#12 Rostick (Private Member) A few of the threads I read said to give everyone write permissions on the entire Web folder. Not gonna do that. I don’t do it for WP and have no plans for other platforms. With our gambling sites being at the highest risk for hacking? No way! Reply With Quote #10 xecutable (Private Member) I’ve only used WordPress and I never had to try something else, to be honest. I’ve had Joomla, Drupal, etc., recommended to me, but “if it isn’t broken, don’t fix it,” right? I don’t know how many plugins Joomla has, but WordPress has literally thousands of solutions out there for any problem. I believe that counts for a lot. I don’t think I’ve ever run into a problem that someone else hasn’t already had and solved using WordPress. Reply With Quote #11 universal4 (Security/Membership Team) I don’t really think WP is any better than any other platform SEO-wise, as it is just a platform for developing. There certainly are a LOT more plugins or addons for WP than others so that is a clear advantage. I have been nosing around the Joomla site and I will probably put one up at some point so I can have a play with it. But from what I have read so far, it looks to me to be a much higher security risk than some other platforms when looking at the recommendations of security settings for folder permissions. A few of the threads I read said to give everyone write permissions on the entire Web folder. Not gonna do that. I don’t do it for WP and have no plans for other platforms. Reply With Quote #8 Rostick (Private Member) WordPress is easier and it is better for SEO, although Joomla isn’t bad either. Joomla is a little bit more flexible, but I don’t think it’s worth mastering it given the fact that WordPress is very versatile also. Also, in the past, Joomla had some viability problems, errors. I don’t know if that’s the case now, but for sure WP is still more stable. I’d go with WordPress every day. If you want huge flexibility, you’d be better off learning coding at a higher level and building a website “from scratch” than learning Joomla, which also has its limitations. There are also so many topics online about this, one surely won’t have any problems figuring things out and what works best for him. Reply With Quote #9 Storebuilder (Private Member) If you want an easy to use CMS that works right out of the box with minimal fuss so you can get cranking out those articles in quick fashion use WordPress. You’ll be driving at top speed in no time. If you want to spend far more time “under the bonnet” and tinkering with spanners than is good for you, then choose Joomla – you’ll be at top speed about a year from now. WP will get you 0-60 in a week or so for a beginner. Joomla will take you a month and more to get going. Niche sites? Use WP. Blog sites? Use WP. Gambling sites? Use WP. Only a masochist would put themselves through the amount of pain a Joomla website will cause. Continual upgrades, upgrades that break, no upgrade paths, templates that work with this but not with that – not to mention the perpetual problem of components or plugins that don’t play fair with server file ownership permissions and trash your site. When you finally get it all to work together it looks great – but I’m not sure that the time devoted to putting that custom car together outweighs doing the basics right with WP. I’ve seen some WP sites that look absolutely fantastic. My advice is to give Joomla a wide berth – it will just eat up valuable time much better spent elsewhere. Reply With Quote FROM THE GPWA FORUMS