Well, a very clichéd topic “Joomla or WordPress “, but lets face it every web designer faces this issue. The image on right is just for your reference for popularity what Alexa says about these sites but I really don’t think that should impact your selection of CMS.

Well, as everyone says that this depends on the usability of your site. Joomla has a bit wider scope than WordPress, but this gap has been reducing slowly. Now,  Wordpress and Joomla both have a huge following community. With WordPress plugins  now you can create forums,support center, online chat,multiple users blog and online social community such as face book or even you can replicate WordPress.com . That is a lot of functionality which earlier was thought can only be made in Joomla or Drupal and now it also comes in WordPress.

WordPress is perhaps the most user friendly system I have ever seen. Though Joomla too has a user friendly system but nothing can match that of WordPress. But here lies the catch. With wordpress you can implement almost anything you want ,having lesser complex code, one can modify the core wordpress files and even add tables as per needs.

But the problem with WordPress is that  you get plugins for almost everything and you start installing those plugins and then they become very bulky and it becomes harder to manage them. Joomla would present you with some inbuilt components for which you have to install several plugins. Also there are some functionality like super administrator which are missing in WordPress.

So it really depends on your need which one to choose.