You spend a great amount of time explaining the difference between back and frontend of Joomla. However, anyone interested in watching a video with this title already knows that stuff.
I don’t have an issue with Joomla, my issue are the slow release of plugins, extensions and web hosting servers. Leaves site vulnerable and creates a bad impression with clients.
Is it dead ? No. But do people recommend to use it ? From what I’ve researched, No. I’ve been in Joomla since Mambo days as well and I’ve noticed that it’s mostly becoming harder to manage not to design and develop. On my end, what I’ve done is migrate lazy, low level sites to Wordpress. I keep Joomla for sites that require a bit of complexity and those that are far more structured and requires customisation. AI will never build a website according to my requirements, the scope I get is too complex so this is where Joomla steps in. AI is probably good for basic sites with minimum functionality but Joomla remains in my core!
Good point. Based on my experience since either started Joomla in 2007, I think one of the reasons why people don’t recommend Joomla is because they hired a Joomla “pro” to create a website for them only to realize that person was not a pro and knew little to nothing about building or managing Joomla websites. Because of that, they left Joomla to go to Wordpress which I agree 10000% with you that it’s for lazy and low level websites. Joomla has a learning curve that once you get over l, the sky is not even the limit because you can use it to build anything. That’s why I started teaching so people can see that the possibilities of using Joomla compares to WordPress are endless. What type of websites do you build with Joomla?
This is all fine and easy. But how to add the social icons to the Helix Ultimate blog? There are only 3 examples (facebook, linkedin, Twitter) but nothing more what can be added
I understand that the natural thing to when people hurt you deeply is to burn the bridge. Sometimes, certain bridges can be burners but under two conditions: 1. You genuinely forgive the person, 2. You’re willing to deal with the consequences that come from burning that bridge. Ultimately, the choice is yours.
Mathew nice to see video from you 🤗 Joomla is alive! provides excellent structure under the hood. Huge changes in 4.x and 5.x in core which related to modern web dev 🚀
I have moved up to Joomla 5 and it is waaay better than J3. The transition from J3 to 4 was hard for some people but I was fortunate enough that a had to, and wanted to start from scratch with J5. I am not interested in slap and dash, drag and drop site building. It is like putting up a pretty facade of a building - until you need to get to the plumbing or electrical or other critical internal structure and finding that you just can't get to it or change it or fix it.
Don't use DJ-Classifieds. You will have problems over problems and customer support is nonexistent. Their last update was also 6 months ago, and many complained about bugs.
The software only helps you build the website and doesn’t have anything to do with recognition. You can accept external payment like Fafsa or student loan.
