Used to use Joomla but that was years ago. At the time Wordpess was simple to use but laggimg Joomla. Times change. I'm interested to know the "essential" plugins for wordpress and the the ones I should never use as they cause issues. It was the issue causing ones on Joomla that made me give up on it. They just created security holes and so even a complete muppet could hack the sites.

Sorry about picking your brain so much it's just that the stuff you write about coincides with what I'm relearning or trying to do.