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Let me start by saying I am a current civi user and love it! I am currently running civi 4.2.7 in Joomla 2.5.17. (Yes I know I need to update, bear with me....) We started in Joomla out of necessity, when we originally launched the donation portion of our website in late 2012 we were unsuccessful at getting a Wordpress version functioning with PayPal as our payment processor.

I'm very comfortable working in Wordpress, the other portions of our website (including a new micro site we are looking to launch) are all Wordpress.

• I'm considering migrating civi to Wordpress at this point for the following reasons:
  I've been having a fair amount of trouble upgrading, (just can't seem to get out of 4.2.7), since there is probably some rebuilding I need to do this would be an opportunity to swap to a CMS that I am more familiar with.
• I could more easily integrate our donation pages into our regular site. Currently since it is a separate installation, all the civicrm related pages are in a sub-domain, which at times doesn't make the most sense.
• The micro site we are launching is basically a networking site for our constituents (uses some Buddypress features). I like for users in that site to be able to quickly swap between the buddypress site and their civi account. If both sites are in Wordpress I'm confident I can achieve this pretty easily. I've not made much headway trying to sync users between Joomla and Wordpress.

I've read a mixture of posts on how civi operates in Wordpress now. I'd like some feedback if this is a good move or not. Currently in civi we're at about 8000 contacts with about the same # of contribution and event records. With the assumption that we'll see the same (if not more) growth over the next two years. Is Wordpress + CiviCRM able to handle this? If migrating to Wordpress isn't the best idea, does anyone have any other suggestions or thoughts they can share on having civi as an entirely separate install from another (related) site?

Agree with Hershel. AFAIK CIviCRM has exactly the same features in J as WP. And WP even includes a couple extras like shortcode integration.