Joomla CMS

Judgement

What it is

Complete system

What it does

A long-established PHP content management system for websites, with built-in multilingual support, user access levels and extensions.

Adopt it when

You need a multilingual site with fine-grained access control and are comfortable with PHP hosting.

Watch out

Market share has shrunk, so fewer developers and extensions than WordPress.

Ready for

Production-ready

Runs as

Self-hosted server

Built with

PHP, MySQL and PostgreSQL

How established

Established: started 15 years ago, latest release 6.2.0.

What the license allows

Use inside your business is unrestricted, but anything you distribute that includes it must be released under the same license.

Judged on 2026-11-03 from the project's README and GitHub data. The license and age lines are worked out directly.

Built from

Follow it down: Joomla CMS → Php-src → GCC → LLVM project → runs on a microchip

How compilers were built, back to punched paper tape

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