Comments on: Why Joomla Sucks! (My Joomla Review)

By: Gustavo Rice

Gustavo Rice — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:59:48 +0000

So what do we have got ? #77.

Thank you, roared with laughter for 3 whole minutes.

Then $120. Thank you, says it all.

Then, more hours of reading all those things again and again, an ordeal.

Then, a brief intermission, ## 203-212. Thank you, I was in deep need for this.

And as conclusion, in 2012 : Thank you very much everybody here, I’ll stay miles away from this incredible piece of crap, you’ll have saved me months of thinking of suicide.

By: Alexander Ewering

Alexander Ewering — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Oh, and let me just add:

How fucking complicated is it to just have automatically generated thumbnails in Joomla?

In a “sane” CMS, you just add a page (news entry, article, blog, whatever), enter text, upload an image, and the CMS automatically creates any thumbnails needed whatsoever for whatever view your new page might appear in (galleries, frontpage, menus, category lists bla bla bla) and you’re done.

In Joomla, I don’t see any such functionality.

There may be extensions, but the few I’ve looked at are so complicated that none of my clients would ever be able to use them.

By: Alexander Ewering

Alexander Ewering — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 23:49:33 +0000

Just adding my 2 cents:

I’m currently in the unfortunate position having to work on a rather complex Joomla site because our “Joomla PRO” “has been quit” his job because he didn’t get anything done in time.

Our client wanted a simple “Favourite products” system where you could add products to your personal favourites list, and then recall that list. Simple as that.

He estimated 40 hours for that.

Now I know why.

I mean, I had NO IDEA about Joomla or Virtuemart AT ALL just a few days ago, but I implemented this favourites stuff in 5 hours.

But HOLY COW, this VirtueMart thing is HORRIBLE!

The single MOST IMPORTANT PIECE OF INFORMATION – the final PRODUCT PRICE – is calculated in at least SEVEN DIFFERENT PLACES (!), INSIDE TEMPLATES (!), with DUPLICATED CODE in – I repeat – SEVEN DIFFERENT PLACES!

The other day, I had to add a few custom properties per product specifiable by the site visitor – Yes, I had to change SEVEN DIFFERENT PLACES to update the calculation! At least I wrapped the price calculation into a function and only call that (in seven different places )

I also had to visit seven different places in various templates and codes to show the specified properties:

- The product “flypage”
- The cart
- The “read-only” cart (a duplication of the cart with a few characters changed)
- The “Final order confirmation” page
- The “Order confirmation E-Mail” template
- The “Order history” page
- The “Read only Order history” page

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 11:50:09 +0000

“Most of the time you can see from the urly URLs (look for the word component and option) This search in Google looking for both keyword in the URLs return 13 million pages”

Try that now. 711 million

By: ivan

ivan — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:23:12 +0000

Long time I stop working with Joomla. It’s ugly, heavy and sux. Wordpress beat Joomla on every field, it is already known.
Otherwise, I mostly using custom CMS. To me this is the best solution. Doing just what you need.

By: Lenny23

Lenny23 — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 04:16:05 +0000

@InWebDesign: If you have internet access you can learn everything on all those CMS, PHD, MySQL forums, why spent money?

By: Peter Drinnan

Peter Drinnan — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 12:58:32 +0000

Oh my how things have changed since 2006! Wordpress is now in the top position. Joomla is on the wane. Drupal is on the rise again (probably because they NOT using Mootools). Anyone still using PHPNuke is officially eligible for food stamps.

By: InWebDesign

InWebDesign — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 18:48:25 +0000

I want study web designing. where i can study. i want to learn php, Joomla, drupla and some other. Now i am in India – Tamil Nadu – Coimbatore.
where i can study. but i have only 4000rs to study please anybody tell me some good training center or any other person you know these languages. my Mail Id : Tamil. IIdloxy2009@gmail.com.
please give me any suggestions

By: Anita

Anita — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 01:33:04 +0000

Agree with you completely! Joomla websites are ugly. Moreover, the performance is poor!

By: Nuno

Nuno — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 01:37:53 +0000

Joomla sucks because:

-Inserting an embeded map is nightmarish
-Sections on the templates suck and are hard for normal users to identify
-HTML on articles suck, fogert iframes

I prefer Sharepoint on Office 365 by far, only problem is its payed, and has very litle templates. but it sure beats Joomla regarding all the rest.