Difference between Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal

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Whats Common ?

• All three of the webs most popular CMS have a
  lot in common in terms of technology, philosophy,
  and community.
• WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal are all free
  and open source software licensed under GPL. 
• All three of them are written primarily in PHP.
• All three of them use themes and templates for
  visual appearance of sites, andplugins, modules,
  or extensions for extending features.
• They all support MySQL as their database
  management system. WordPress exclusively supports
  only MySQL, while Joomla and Drupal support other
  database management systems.
• As open source software, they are all
  community-driven projects.

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Ease of use and Beginner Friendliness

• Wordpress - WordPress comes with a famous five
  minute install. Most WordPress hostingproviders
  also offer one click install of WordPress. This
  makes it fairly easy for a new user start a
  WordPress blog in minutes, not hours.

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• Joomla - Joomla installation may not look as
  quick as WordPress, but it has very similar
  steps. Apart from that many shared hosting
  providers offer one click install packages for
  Joomla as well.

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• Drupal Drupals installation is similar to both
  Joomla and WordPress. Simply download and upload
  the package and run the installation script.

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Support Options

• Wordpress WordPress has a strong community of
  users. You can find WordPress help on official
  support forums, docs, handbooks,
  codex, Slack channels, Stack Exchange, and almost
  every forum on the internet about web design and
  development.

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• Joomla - Joomla, just like WordPress has a large
  and very helpful community. There is an extensive
  documentation on the Joomla website which is a
  valuable resource for beginners. For more
  interactive support, users can join forums,
  mailing lists, IRC chatrooms, etc.

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• Drupal - Drupal has a very proactive community of
  fans and users. You will find all the community
  support options for Drupal just like WordPress
  and Joomla. There is extensive documentation,
  support forum, mailing lists, user groups, irc
  chatrooms. All good places to get advice and free
  help.

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Localization Multi-Lingiual Support

• Wordpress WordPress does an excellent job at
  offering a good platform to build a multilingual
  site. It does not support multiple languages out
  of the box, but there are some excellent plugins
  that allow you to easily create a WordPress
  multilingual site.

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• Joomla - Joomla comes with out of the box
  capability to handle a multilingual website
  without installing any extension. Simply go to
  language manager, add a content language and
  start creating multilingual content on your
  website.

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• Drupal - Drupal comes with built-in support to
  handle non-English or multilingual sites. You
  will need to enable locale and content
  translation modules. After that you can add site
  and admin interface languages from Drupals
  configuration section.

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Security

• Wordpress Being the most popular CMS in the
  world, WordPress based websites are often
  targeted by hackers. However, WordPress is built
  on a very secure code, and it responds to
  security vulnerability very quickly. WordPress
  also has an auto-update mechanism which allows
  WordPress websites to automatically update when
  there is a new security patch.
• WordPress sites can be further secured with
  automated backups, two factor authentication, and
  other best practices.
• There is also a built-in mechanism to show
  updates for WordPress themes and plugins. This
  allows themes and plugin developers to rapidly
  respond to any security vulnerability.

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• Joomla - Joomla is very similar to WordPress
  when it comes to security. They actively respond
  to any security vulnerability and are very quick
  to patch it up. However, maintaining a website
  and installing updates is still up to the user.
• There are extensions available to backup your
  Joomla site. You can also strengthen your Joomla
  sites security by following the same best
  practices as WordPress.
• Drupal - Drupal takes a very serious approach
  to security. They publish security
  vulnerabilities on their own site as they are
  discovered and patched. There is a perception
  that Drupal is more secure because you dont hear
  about Drupal sites being hacked as often, but
  that could be cause its not as popular Joomla or
  WordPress.

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Concusion

• Drupal, Joomla and WordPress are all fantastic
  content management systems. Drupal and Joomla
  come with many more built-in features than
  WordPress. However, WordPress beats them with its
  ease of use, huge global community, plugins and
  themes. We feel that most non-developer users
  would find it much easier to build with WordPress
  than Joomla or Drupal.

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