does wordpress have more plugins and widgets that other CMS like joomla and drupal.
anybody

Does it matter? Why not, based on requirements, see if what you would like to use has the necessary plugins? What if the client insists you use something and you aren't familiar with it?

Don't limit yourself. Learn tid bits from everywhere and learn to use what works best in a particular situation.

good luck!

Actually, Wordpress has more plugins, widgets, templates, support e.t.c. than any other CMS out there.

But in the real sense of it, like yawa has said, it is your needs that will determine your final choice. In most cases, wordpress is an excellent CMS but there are situations where Joomla and Drupal beats it hands down.

You can always post your needs and the good members of this forum will help you make a grand choice.

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The truth is that Wordpress enjoys so much support, but Joomla is much easier to use, and with the Joomla extensions directory, you can get almost any plugin to do anything with.

Also, Joomla sites are basically the same in the backend, your template is what makes the site worth looking at. With wordpress, you need to hack PHP files to get your template to do what you want, but at the end of some long nights with cups of coffee, you'll be just fine!

The major problem with Joomla so far is that it isnt as fast loading as might be preferred. Wordpress beats it hands down there.

that is because of the heavy mootools that joomla make use of

@DHTML: True. But that is d least problem, i think, cos it can be solved using javascript packers. I usually use Dean Edward's online packer, gives 30 to 40% compression, on ALL d Joomla js files b4 using d Joomla installer package.

The 2 other issues, for me, are
1. Joomla core framework outputs table-based layout instead of lean, tableless layouts using Divs & Css. We all know tables are far, far heavier than Divs. The solution is to rework &recode the framework for urself, and its not a small task. I guess this may be solved in Joomla 1.6

2. Plugins/Mambots. The richer &more functional ur site is, the more the plugins &modules u av used. Good for modules, u can select d pages that u want each module to appear on. But with plugins, ALL of them are loaded into every page, most often into the head of the page. E.g. U av a 130 page site but only 8 pages need a heavy set of plugins, yet all d 130 pages will suffer for it. There's yet no lazy loading controller that one can use to decide which pages will use what plugins, except i have time to code one.

I av used Joomla actively for 3 yrs & i think there are other issues but these 3 are the most serious, as easy as it is to use Joomla.