CMS: flexibility
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- johnnnnyh0
I'd go for WP. Have been using EE for a site and while it's OK there's a lot about it that is well - not that good. For example, no inbuilt WYSWIG for clients who want it. Crap image/file management (from the client perspective).
Overall if you're the one using the CMS then EE is pretty good. But if you're handing it over to muppets then you need to watch out because it's not intuitive to users. Sorry, but that's the way it has been for me. Plus you have to buy a license.
WP makes more sense - but I can see there would be things you couldn't do that easily.
I really don't get the big hype over EE. I wish I did!
- Nightshade0
I completely agree with johnnnnyh. Having created a number of small/medium sites with WP I decided to try EE for a larger project. I found it to be very time consuming to set up, with a number of plugins needed to be installed to provide basic functions that came as standard with WP. The usability of the admin area is poor and hard for clients to grasp.
On the plus side, it's 'weblogs' feature makes it easy to create pages for different types of content- for instance products or calendar events. I just wish WP had this function, then there would be no need to use another CMS (perhaps there is a plugin for WP to organise data in this way?).
Therefore I'd recommend using WP unless you really need EE's weblogs feature.
- leewilson780
I'm a Joomla user. Whichever system you use, don't let the CMS drive the template design, use a CMS that can get you to the end product easily.
- bort0
@johnnnyh
I feel you on the image/file management thing. I haven't used EE enough to make that statement myself, but I know that's part of the reason I left Textpattern for Wordpress. As far as the WYSIWYG editor, so long as there is a plugin in for it that's not really a problem, yeah?