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Joomla VS WordPress

Joomla 

 Joomla is a free open-source content management system for publishing web content. When downloading Joomla in your web host account, you have to create or generate strong usernames and passwords to login to the backend of your Joomla site.  You have to type in your domain name slash the administrator to successfully log in to your account (www.yourdomain.com/administrator). You can simply create articles, but you need to select a template for your site and in order to do that, you'll need to download the template from JoomShaper. To put articles on your website, you'll need to add a new menu, give it a title, and select the article you want for that menu item. You can also add extensions to gain more search engine optimization, security, page builder, authentication, languages, etc. 

WordPress

WordPress is a content management system that is based on PHP and MySQL databases. This works exactly like Joomla except when you login, you need to put in your domain name slash wp-admin (www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin). You can select any variety of themes which Joomla calls templates and add plugins that are the same as Joomla extensions. WordPress calls their documents Pages while Joomla calls there's Articles. If you want available themes and plugins, then I would recommend WordPress because when going into Joomla, there's not much extensions/plugins available and/or updated. 

Online Resources

JoomlaTutorials

Joomla Tutorials helps you to learn all the aspects of using Joomla. The site also helps you to learn about Joomla when you are first introduced to the site.

JoomlaShack

I highly recommend this website to every Joomla Beginner because this site doesn't just provide articles, but it also provides a visual video of someone showing you how to manage your Joomla site. It provides training, templates, etc. 

Joomla.org

Joomla.org provides training, templates, downloads, and you can even visit the community portal when you hover over the Community & Support on top.

Geekflare 

This article gives you the ten best ways to keep your Joomla site secure. 

SucuriBlog

If you want to go more in-depth with the Joomla security, I provided an article that discusses 12 Best Ways to secure your Joomla site.