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Migrating hundreds of thousands of pages, re-platforming and extending for the leading composable AI integration platform

Joomla sits in the same category as WordPress, except somehow even harder to explain to anyone under 40. If your C-suite is filled with boomers who think “PHP developer” is still a personality type, Joomla will make them feel right at home. You might also have a vested interest in making your hosting provider very rich, because nothing about this platform is light, modern, or low-maintenance.
The dev experience still feels trapped in a pre-composer, pre-type-hints era. Migrations are a genuine horror story: extensions break, templates implode, and you’ll often rebuild the whole site because Joomla decided versioning should be a personality test. The community is smaller, the documentation is hit-and-miss, and the admin panel feels like a UI from a government portal that accidentally became a CMS. Performance on shared hosting is questionable at best, workflow is clunky, and there is barely any modern DX. But if you really, truly want Joomla… we’ll point you to another agency or just sit down with us for half an hour and we'll talk you out of your biggest digital regret.

Joomla makes even simple tasks feel like you’re onboarding into a new corporate ERP system. If you’re not already fluent in its quirks, prepare to lose a weekend (or three).

Still clinging to older PHP conventions, missing modern practices, and generally stuck in a time capsule. If you enjoy fighting your own tools, you’ll love it.

Upgrading versions feels less like an update and more like a full-blown rebuild. Random extensions break, templates combust, and you’re left questioning your career choices.

Half the ecosystem works… depending on your version, your template, the time of day, and whether Mercury is in retrograde. Reliability is not its strong suit.

Unless you’re aiming for “government website from 2011,” the design ecosystem doesn’t give you much to work with.

The admin panel still feels like an escape room puzzle. Everything is technically there, but actually finding or using it is another story.
Sitecore excels as a comprehensive digital experience platform that integrates content management with powerful marketing features. It offers robust personalisation and analytics capabilities, allowing businesses to deliver tailored user experiences across multiple channels. Sitecore’s scalable architecture supports extensive customisation and integration with existing systems, making it ideal for large enterprises seeking a unified solution for complex digital needs. Its advanced marketing automation tools help streamline campaign management, enhancing customer engagement and ROI.
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