I would like to see more back-end admin power pulled into the front-end, therefore the admins will not have to use the back-end as much, especially for the menu manager, user manager, etc. versus using third-party extensions to achieve this.

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Sinesio Bittencourt

Suporte avançado - Linux System Administrator L1 at HostGator Brasil

Oct 24, 2017

Customizing components is not so easy.

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Senior Consultant IT Infrastructure at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees

Jul 20, 2016

Joomla itself seems to be secure, but many add-ons are badly written and allow LFI, RFI, SQL injection and XSS attacks.

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Computer Repair at a non-profit with 51-200 employees

Sep 4, 2015

With even basic Joomla, it requires a course.

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Developer at a tech company with 51-200 employees

Jul 2, 2012

Web applications created in Joomla eat up a lot of server resources.

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