Joomla is a very powerful CMS with high scalability. Last time, I mentioned about WordPress vs Joomla in Joomla 4 news. That may not be 100% precisely true. But for my perspective, Joomla is a very suitable platform to build multi-functional site with thousands of extensions support.

In one simple comment, Joomla extension is similer with WordPress plugin, but the more complicated thing is, Joomla extension have several types, while WordPress has only one type.

In WordPress, everything is plugin. But in Joomla, it’s called the “extension”. The extension could be a component, a module or a plugin. To make it easier to understand, I move a picture from Joomla document.

On 7 January, Joomla 4 beta 6 is released, along with Joomla 3.10 alpha 4. Why is it so important? As Joomla 4 is the next major version of the Joomla which stay 3.x for years. According to the official release news, the beta 6 will be the last beta version, which means the final Joomla 4 is on the way.

With 10 years development experience, I just feel a little bit tired on programming career. In the past 10 years, there are several frontend technologies which are created and promoted by companies. From 2006 to present, I have used several technologies including Openlaszlo (an open soruce platform for development of RIA), Flex, Flash, PHP, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Android, and iOS Objective-C and Swift. I waste almost 5 years on RIA development with flash based technologies.
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