I’ve spent the last 20 years providing for my family by building and managing websites for clients using the Joomla CMS. Joomla is a free and open source software that is owned and managed by a non-profit called Open Source Matters led by the community.
It is a secure and very extendible software that has excellent user account management and integrated access rules and user groups built in. If you need a very robust content management system with multiple contributors, editors, managers, administrators, etc.. then Jooma has all that and more, right out of the box.
As time has passed, Joomla has always been number 2 to WordPress, but being number 2 let’s you fly under the radar of most of the big struggles that come with huge growth. Joomla has always had a community feeling about it, even with it’s struggles and growth pains.
At the peak of Joomla, in 2015, there were 3 million live Jooma sites around the world, and 14,000 extensions to download and extend your Joomla site.
But today, in 2025, the Joomla community of developers and users is but a ghost-town of what it once was. With less than 1 million live sites across the web, and roughly 2000 extensions for the current release in the Joomla Extension Directory.
In comparison, there’s over 35 million live WordPress sites and 59,000 WordPress Plugins available for download. Many Joomla developers have moved on to other platforms, or went to work for another firm to pay their bills.
And that’s where I’m at. I manage both local and national level accounts that can’t be bothered by extensions not being updated because the guy developing it went broke. They will find someone else to do the work.
So today marks the first day of GoCatDo Media, and to another 20 years of building great websites for customers big and small. But this time, we’ll be doing it with WordPress as our base CMS.
Today’s consumers require agile development to bring ideas to market. Not 6 months to hand code a new 28 page template before the site can go live. That’s why we’re moving to WordPress. The extension support is undeniable, and the WordPress software itself has grown to be really good! I really like the new Block Editor, it’s intuitive and allows you to make changes to the site quickly and easily. I’m excited again about the future of the Web!
Until next time.
Robert Vining – CEO
GoCatDo Media