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title: "What is Joomla?"  
description: "Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications."  
author: "Uttam Misra"  
published: 2012-04-27  
updated: 2020-08-11  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/blog/301/what-is-joomla  
category: "joomla"  
tags: ["joomla"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What is Joomla?

Joomla is an award-winning [content management system](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/12586/list-of-the-five-best-content-management-systems-in-2019) (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful [online](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/13083/benefits-of-students-who-can-get-online-assignment) applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular [Web site](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/12285/the-finest-web-site-design-trends-you-may-expect-in-2017) [software](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/311636/best-freelancing-websites-to-get-software-development-services) available. Best of all, Joomla is an [open source](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/337437/how-to-leverage-open-source-for-innovative-project-development) solution that is freely available to everyone.\
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