Joomla is one such open
source CMS solution that comes in your mind whenever you think of any
open-source content management system as it is the most advanced and
feature-rich CMS that used for websites, blogs and custom
applications to Intranets.
Today, the company has
announced that its CMS (Joomla) has crossed over 50 million
downloads. It is one of the biggest achievements for the company as
its most powerful CMS has been downloaded more than 50 million times
by worldwide people.
Paul Orwig, a President
of Open Source Matters, said “This is a huge milestone for the
Joomla community that can be traced back to the tireless work of
hundreds of thousands of contributors.” He added "Joomla and
its collaborative community have continued to build truly versatile
software that fuels its widespread adoption. We are encouraged by the
rate of growth and will continue to provide the most powerful and
flexible tools needed to improve the digital world."
Being so popular and
advanced CMS, Joomla attributes this milestone and continued its
growth in the lots of websites as its has been downloaded at a rate
of just less than 1 million downloads per month and its powering more
than 3.1% of the web.
Equipped with some
high-end features, Joomla is a perfect CMS for developing websites to
blogs to custom applications. Today, you would find more and more
developers, who are adopting this CMS because of its rich features
that are mentioned below:
Flexibility &
Openness of this CMS –
Joomla is one such
framework that allows its developers to custom-built apps or CMSs and
more easily by combining the features of Joomla with features from
other open-source frameworks. Being a free and open source CMS, it
has gained huge popularity in the market.
Constantly Innovating
–
As we all know that
Joomla released version 3.2 of its CMS in November 2013 as it
maintained its six-month release cycle. When it comes to its new
version, the CMS has added a number of new features and improvements
to its CMS by making it the most simple and secure Joomla CMS.
Moreover, the improvements of this CMS comprise rapid application
development, version control, an extension finder, two-factor
authentication and bcrypt. Further, it also provides restored
extension development abilities.
Rising developer
community & numerous extensions –
We all know that Joomla
developer community has collaborated and contributed through its 2.8
million forum posts and about 630,000 forum members. However, the
community of Joomla developer also holds lots of regular events
around the globe like user-group meet-ups, conferences, JoomlaDays
and more.
These days, Joomla is
continuing to see adoption in lots of different industries from
non-profits to some of the world’s biggest financial institutions.
Currently, this CMS has powered approximately in more than 3200
government agencies’ sites, blogs, and intranets in 204 countries.
So, if you have decided
to get Joomla development service for your website, blog or any other
purpose, you should hire Joomla developer from any experienced Joomla Development Company.
“Powered
completely by open source community, Joomla has more than 3% of web
properties that run on it. Recently, the company has declared that
its CMS has passed more than 50 million downloads worldwide.”
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