Enterprise CMS Comparison
Joomla is maintained and current. The question is what each major upgrade costs your team, and who can publish without a developer in between. Enterprise WordPress gives your editors governed blocks, a much larger ecosystem and upgrades that don’t restart the site.
Where Content Teams Gain Leverage
Joomla gives administrators fine-grained control. WordPress gives the people who own the message a way to publish it, with the same control kept in place.
In WordPress, editors build pages from approved blocks and see the result as they work. In Joomla, page layout usually lives in the template and its module positions, so layout changes tend to go to whoever manages the template.
Joomla moved through versions 4, 5 and 6 between 2021 and 2025, and each major version has an end-of-life date that templates and extensions must follow. WordPress ships regular releases on one line, and we plan each update into the monthly work.
WordPress runs 39.5% of all websites and Joomla 2.4% (W3Techs, November 2026). More sites means more developers, more maintained plugins and more integrations already built for the tools you use.
Deep Dive
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Release model
How the platform moves forward over time.
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Regular releases on one major line
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A new major series every two years (4.x, 5.x, 6.x), each with an end-of-life date
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Current support
What the official roadmap says today.
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Current release line maintained
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6.x to 16 Oct 2029; 5.x security only to 12 Oct 2027
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Share of websites
W3Techs, 3 November 2026.
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39.5%
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2.4%
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Editorial experience
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Page building
How a new page or layout gets made.
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Editors assemble approved blocks
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Article editor; layout set by template and module positions
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Marketing autonomy
Publishing without a developer in the loop.
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High, within governed blocks
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Depends on the template or a builder extension
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Governance
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Editorial roles
Who can edit and publish each section.
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Approval workflows
Review steps before content goes live.
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Yes, configured per team
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Yes (Workflows, since Joomla 4)
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Reusable patterns
Approved components teams reuse.
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Blocks and patterns
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Modules and template overrides
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Cost of ownership
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Major upgrades
What a new major version means for the site.
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Planned updates in the monthly work
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Template and extensions updated for each major
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Talent availability
Hiring and partner options.
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Largest pool
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Smaller pool
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Chosen by Teams That Need Autonomy
40Q implements enterprise WordPress so marketers publish on their own, governance holds, and the platform keeps up with the business.
Migration example
Esteros Viajes, a Buenos Aires travel company, moved its website from Joomla to WordPress. Today the site runs in English and Spanish.
It also has an online rates system: customers register to see the current rates list, and the team saves significant time on rate requests.
What Changes After the Switch
Marketing teams can create and update pages faster with a more intuitive publishing experience and fewer developer dependencies.
Marketing teams can create and update pages faster with a more intuitive publishing experience and fewer developer dependencies.
Leaving Joomla
Three steps: a full crawl and URL map first, a parallel build while Joomla stays live, then cutover with rollback ready.
Decision Clarity
Moving off Joomla affects your editors, your upgrades and your search traffic. These are the questions teams ask before deciding.
Weighing the next Joomla upgrade?
Before you plan another major upgrade, compare it with a move. In 30 minutes an engineer looks at your site and tells you what each path would involve.
