With the release of version 3.0, Wordpress has continued its improvement as a platform for building ecommerce websites. As described in WordPress 3.0, Better Ecommerce and Content Management (CMS) the new features make Wordpress a stronger platform for managing your website as a shopping site.

This post looks at 3 highly popular Joomla components. These components support the key elements for a successful Joomla website, namely Ecommerce, SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and Social Networking.

WordPress version 3.0 is almost ready, with what is most likely the last release candidate, RC3 made available just a couple of days back.

Already the leading blogging platform, the new release will strengthen its capabilities as an Ecommerce and CMS platform. Here are some features we found interesting in making the new Wordpress release a better Content Management and Ecommerce website design platform.