When you are being asked; which one better Joomla or WordPress, what would be your answer ? Of course there will be many different responds but which one is the correct one? There is no problem at all since all the answers are right. Why so, because each people has different criteria and perspective.

Joomla dan WordPress are similar open source software that is very populer and still exist nowadays. Both of them could be considered as a king of open source software for CMS category and blogging platform. For CMS, the flexibility and the quality of joomla has no doubt. However if we want to make blog, wordpress would be our first choice.

What is the weakness and the strength point of those software ?

Joomla
The strenght of Joomla is in its complexity. The content was structured sistematicly and it consist of section, category etc. should you have intention to build community site with membership system, joomla would be the right choice.

The weakness point of this joomla is the size of its system core file which is very big so that it would take longer while loading.

WordPress
Even it has been categorized as blog software, however WordPress can also be usd as CMS. The interesting thing from WordPress is the simplicity of their interface. It will not take long for you to understand the work of WordPress.

The strength point of wordpress :
Besides the size of its core file is relatively small, much smaller than joomla, wordpress also have an easier installation process. WordPress is very suitable for making simple website like company profile (organization ) or personal site.

However for making the community site with membership system, this wordpress is not as good as joomla.