Joomla doesn't get talked about nearly as much as WordPress these days, but it hasn't gone anywhere either. A lot of membership sites, multilingual portals, NGOs, and organisations with more complex user-permission needs than a typical business site still run on it — often because it was the right fit years ago and migrating away isn't a small job.
If you're one of those organisations and you're now looking for a Joomla development company in India, here's what that work actually involves, and what's worth checking before you hire someone.
Joomla is an open-source content management system, similar in spirit to WordPress but built with a different set of priorities. It's generally considered stronger out of the box for a few specific things: multilingual websites (Joomla has built-in multilingual support without needing a plugin the way WordPress does), more granular user access control, and complex content structures that go beyond a typical blog-and-pages setup.
That's part of why Joomla shows up more often in certain kinds of projects — government-adjacent and institutional sites, membership platforms, NGOs running content in multiple languages, and portals where different user groups need different levels of access to different content.
The trade-off is that Joomla's ecosystem of themes (called templates) and plugins (called extensions) is smaller than WordPress's, and it generally has a steeper learning curve for non-technical users managing the site day to day. Neither platform is “better” in the abstract — Joomla earns its place in specific situations, and a lot of Joomla projects exist because that fit was true when the site was first built and hasn't stopped being true since.
Building a Joomla site around a specific content structure and user-permission setup, rather than a generic template with pages dropped in.
Joomla calls its themes “templates.” Custom template work means building the site's visual layer specifically for the brand and content, instead of adapting a marketplace template.
Joomla's version of plugins. When existing extensions don't cover a specific requirement — a particular workflow, a custom form, an integration — custom extension development fills that gap.
Since this is one of Joomla's genuine strengths, setting it up properly (content translation workflows, language switching, SEO for each language version) is a common and specific piece of work for organisations with audiences across multiple languages.
For sites that are less “website” and more “platform” — member logins, different content visibility per user group, structured directories — Joomla's access control system is often the reason it was chosen in the first place, and building this properly takes real planning.
Moving a site onto Joomla from another CMS, or migrating between Joomla versions (a real consideration, since major version jumps in Joomla can involve meaningful changes to templates and extensions), without losing content or breaking existing functionality.
Less common than WooCommerce-on-WordPress or dedicated ecommerce platforms, but achievable through extensions for organisations that specifically want to keep ecommerce within an existing Joomla setup rather than running a separate platform.
Connecting a Joomla site to external systems — membership databases, payment processors, third-party tools — where Joomla's core functionality alone doesn't cover the need.
Core and extension updates, security patching, and general upkeep. This matters for any CMS, but it's worth flagging specifically for Joomla since sites that have been running for years sometimes carry outdated extensions that no longer have active support, which is a real security consideration.
This is a fair question to ask honestly rather than assume the answer. Joomla still makes sense if your site genuinely relies on its multilingual capabilities or its user-access control, if you have significant existing content and functionality that would be costly to rebuild elsewhere, or if your team is already comfortable managing it.
It's worth reconsidering if your site's actual needs have simplified over time (a straightforward business site doesn't need Joomla's more complex permission system), if you're struggling to find developers or extensions still actively maintained for your Joomla version, or if a simpler platform would genuinely reduce your ongoing maintenance burden without losing anything you actually use.
A development partner should be willing to have this conversation honestly rather than just quoting a project regardless of whether Joomla is still the right fit for what you're doing now.
Project-based Joomla development suits a defined scope — a new site, a specific extension, a version upgrade — with a clear delivery point.
Hiring dedicated Joomla developers makes more sense for organisations with an active, content-heavy Joomla site that needs ongoing attention — ongoing extension maintenance, content structure changes, or continuous multilingual content management support.
Offshore Joomla development, working with a team in India while based elsewhere, follows the same logic as offshore development generally: it can work well for cost efficiency, provided communication is set up properly — overlapping working hours, a clear process for requests, and one point of contact rather than a scattered handoff.
Joomla's major version changes have historically required real rework of templates and extensions, so recent hands-on experience matters more than a general CMS background.
Rather than automatically recommending more Joomla work regardless of your actual needs.
Ask specifically how they handle extensions that are outdated or no longer actively supported.
This is one of the more specialised areas of Joomla work.
Given how much can change between major Joomla releases.
Techtaru Digital is a web and software development company based in Jaipur, working since 2012. Its core CMS and platform work is built around WordPress, Shopify, and Magento, alongside custom PHP development using frameworks like Laravel and CodeIgniter for projects that need more than a standard CMS provides.
To be straightforward about it: Joomla isn't listed as one of Techtaru's named platform specialisations the way WordPress or Shopify are. If your project specifically needs deep, current Joomla expertise — particularly for something like a complex multilingual portal or an intricate permission structure — it's worth asking directly about the team's recent hands-on Joomla experience before committing, rather than assuming it matches their WordPress or Magento depth.
That said, Techtaru's broader capabilities are genuinely relevant to a Joomla project in a few ways:
Joomla, like WordPress, is a PHP-based CMS, and Techtaru's work with custom PHP frameworks (Laravel, CodeIgniter) reflects the kind of underlying development skill that transfers across PHP-based platforms, including custom extension or integration work.
Since Techtaru works across multiple CMS and ecommerce platforms rather than pushing a single one, the team is used to having honest conversations about whether a given platform is still the right fit for a business — which is exactly the conversation worth having if you're deciding whether to stay on Joomla or move elsewhere.
For organisations that need a website (Joomla-based or otherwise) connected to wider digital marketing, SEO, or custom software needs, Techtaru's work spans those areas alongside CMS development.
If your Joomla project is more about general custom PHP development, a platform migration decision, or a broader web presence than deep, specialised Joomla extension work, that's worth a conversation. For highly specialised Joomla requirements, it's fair to ask any potential partner — including Techtaru — for specifics on their recent Joomla project experience first. Talk to our development team about your project, or get a quote based on your actual scope — and feel free to ask directly about relevant platform experience for your specific case.
It depends on your needs. Joomla remains a strong choice for multilingual sites and projects needing granular user permissions. For a typical business website without those specific requirements, WordPress generally has a larger ecosystem and easier day-to-day management.
Joomla still earns its place for specific kinds of projects — multilingual portals and sites with genuinely complex permission needs, in particular — even though it's not the default choice it once was. If you're maintaining or building on Joomla, the important things are recent, hands-on platform experience, honest advice about whether Joomla still fits your needs, and a real plan for keeping extensions and core versions maintained. Techtaru Digital's development team in Jaipur brings solid custom PHP and CMS experience broadly, and is a reasonable place to start that conversation — though for deeply specialised Joomla work, it's worth confirming the team's specific recent experience with the platform directly before committing.
+91-72298 33335info@techtaru.comBased in Jaipur, working with clients across India