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My experience is that most of the migrations I have had to do from Joomla to WordPress have arisen because of Woocommerce. Not because it was a great ecommerce plugin, but because it is simply the official and most popular one on WordPress.
We have many good e-commerce extensions on joomla, some with great native features that allow you to do a lot without additional plugins.
The problem is that none of these components prevail over the others so all the other players working and developing around the e-commerce world are not investing in making their systems compatible with an e-commerce for Joomla.
By now many companies that produce management systems (or CRM, or electronic invoicing systems, or newsletter systems or saas in general) natively create bridges for Woocommerce, because they know that their development efforts will be repaid by the number of users.
This is not done in the Joomla world because since there is no "official" extension, one would have to build too many bridges for too many different systems, each without a solid user base.
Why lose the whole ecommerce world? We are talking about thousands of small or medium business sites that cannot be done on Joomla just because shipping, payment, management companies do not develop their own native plugins.
I'm not an extension programmer so I can't roll up my sleeves and do it myself, but I've been using Joomla for 15 years and I think the lack of official ecommerce is its biggest problem.
WordPress's fortune was made by Automattic's acquisition of Woocommerce, which brought users and cash flow due to the sale of plugins.
I really think that in order to ensure a bright future for Joomla, we either need to develop an official e-commerce component or do as Automattic did: pick one of the existing ones and go all-in on that.
I would like to emphasize that this is not an indictment of the Joomla world or a criticism. It is an idea to make the CMS I love a better CMS, competitive with all other CMSs in the world.
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My experience is that most of the migrations I have had to do from Joomla to WordPress have arisen because of Woocommerce. Not because it was a great ecommerce plugin, but because it is simply the official and most popular one on WordPress.
We have many good e-commerce extensions on joomla, some with great native features that allow you to do a lot without additional plugins.
The problem is that none of these components prevail over the others so all the other players working and developing around the e-commerce world are not investing in making their systems compatible with an e-commerce for Joomla.
By now many companies that produce management systems (or CRM, or electronic invoicing systems, or newsletter systems or saas in general) natively create bridges for Woocommerce, because they know that their development efforts will be repaid by the number of users.
This is not done in the Joomla world because since there is no "official" extension, one would have to build too many bridges for too many different systems, each without a solid user base.
Why lose the whole ecommerce world? We are talking about thousands of small or medium business sites that cannot be done on Joomla just because shipping, payment, management companies do not develop their own native plugins.
I'm not an extension programmer so I can't roll up my sleeves and do it myself, but I've been using Joomla for 15 years and I think the lack of official ecommerce is its biggest problem.
WordPress's fortune was made by Automattic's acquisition of Woocommerce, which brought users and cash flow due to the sale of plugins.
I really think that in order to ensure a bright future for Joomla, we either need to develop an official e-commerce component or do as Automattic did: pick one of the existing ones and go all-in on that.
I would like to emphasize that this is not an indictment of the Joomla world or a criticism. It is an idea to make the CMS I love a better CMS, competitive with all other CMSs in the world.
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