Expression Engine pros/cons
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- flashhgordon
I'm thinking to migrate some of my projects from WordPress to EE. Do you have experience with EE? Let me know. Take a look at http://expressionengine.com/
Thanx.
Flashh
- detritus0
EE's good if you want to make your own site, from scratch, with CMS.
WP is fine if you want to take an overbloated ex-blogging platform then spend a while hacking it into something it was never meant to be.
I'd suggest you just go ahead and do ONE project in EE and see how you get on. It's a good wee platform, but I ultimately didn't fall quite as in love with it as I'd hoped when I gave it a go.
- flashhgordon0
I want a more secure and scalable cms than wp if your site grows and grows.
- EE is only more secure because hackers do not target it. And there are plenty of ways discussed elsewhere here to secure Wordpress. And it is scaleable.fadein11
- MrNibs0
Last 2 sites that I did >
EE: Gapps.org WP: tenguncreative.com
Wordpress was constant compromise. EE was whatever I wanted. WP site was built in 2 weeks using a template. EE site was built in 4 weeks building a template.
I wish all sites that I worked on used EE but budget and time ultimately determined which route I took.
- Daithi0
If you're prepared to spend, EE is well worth it.
Having come from a print design background, it was more suited to my way of working as a beginner. As my skills developed it has proved infinitely flexible.
You'll need to buy some add-ons as well as EE itself.
Almost all of the add-ons on http://pixelandtonic.com/ are must-haves as far as I'm concerned, along with a few from http://www.solspace.com/ and http://ee-garage.com/ (override.css is totally essential)
- zarkonite-2
http://www.drupal.org - way better than EE.
- dbloc0
the only drawback is that you have to pay for it. If it's in the budget, EE is great
- nosaj-3
I second Drupal - it's awesome.
- I de-second your secondingTheBlueOne
- I'll set it back to 0albums
- 20120
Whatever you do, avoid Drupal at all cost
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- estetic0
EE all day. The scripting is easy to pick up and crazy flexible - only a few key concepts to learn and your off and building. With several developers putting out 'for profit' modules and EE itself being commercial you get a very polished product and tons of dedicated support.
- flashhgordon0
Thanx so far guys. @Daithi thank you for the resources. @Mr Nibs nice work indeed. I'll give it a try.
- ETM0
*bump*
I didn't want to start a new thread to ask, but does EE, whether by default or by add-on do a good job of content tagging? I am taking a publication online and keyword tagging or articles will be key to searching and archiving.- Solspace makes an add-on "Tag": http://devot-ee.com/…sseo
- Thanks!ETM
- ETM0
I was wondering if any experienced ExpressionEngine users could give me a quick hand with a problem, either here or in email. It's regarding fine tuning reverse relations.
Being able to pull in content from multiple channels for a magazine issue/print edition.
Please let me know! If it becomes an in-depth thing, I will pay you for time spent (PayPal).
- rootlock0
We ditched modx for EE. Dev time is incredibly fast once you wrap your head around it. You need the following add ons:
matrix
structure
event calendar from solspace is also niceJust did a site for a buddy on wordpress ... utliziing a theme...terrible, doesn't follow any conventions , back end is complicated for the user, everything is a hack.
- rootlock0
ETM,
In your channel tag you can add
channel="channel1|channel2|chann...
with the name of your channels.
- ETM0
I've wrapped my head around a good chunk of EE so far.
I prefer to avoid add-ons as much as possible given that over time they can become such headaches through version upgrades etc. I've pretty much got everything covered to build-out if I could figure out this last issue with needing more precise method of displaying the related channels being pulled in.
- ETM0
@rootlock
Thanks for your input. What I've got (based on Ryan Irelan's example) is a channel called "print_editions" and within that content entries for each month's issue (Sept 2012, Oct 2012 etc.).
I have several channels (articles, features, editorials etc.) and each channel has a field relating appropriate entries to the "print_editions" channel and the appropriate monthly entry within that. So an article flagged 'Sep 2012' will be related to "print_editions/sep_2012"
I can pull all of the related content into the template fine, but they just display in generic order-- articles mixed with editorials etc. via the single channel they are related to (print_editions).
I want to retain a table of contents like display:
Articles Heading
-articlesEditorials Heading
-editorialsRyan Irelan's examples only ever include one channel related to another, so perhaps it's not a good model to base it off of.
- rootlock0
take a look at
- i_was1
Avoid drupal , it is complete no sense.