Another EE Vs WordPress Post

[Jeffro]

Item 9 gives their thoughts on the argument between EE and WordPress. Overall, WordPress comes out the winner but it's not a direct head to head, feature to feature comparison. I'm just glad that WordPress has the third party backing as that is the one killer feature that is hard to duplicate.

http://item-9.com/2010/04/wordpress-...ession-engine/

Expression Engine may someday overtake WordPress as the defacto self-publishing web content management system, but not without first converting all those talented WordPress developers and users.

Really? As long as EE has a paywall structured around it, even in the worst case scenarios for WordPress, would that prevent it from ever taking over?

[chipbennett]

Item 9 gives their thoughts on the argument between EE and WordPress. Overall, WordPress comes out the winner but it's not a direct head to head, feature to feature comparison. I'm just glad that WordPress has the third party backing as that is the one killer feature that is hard to duplicate.

http://item-9.com/2010/04/wordpress-...ession-engine/



Really? As long as EE has a paywall structured around it, even in the worst case scenarios for WordPress, would that prevent it from ever taking over?

$100 just for a persona license?
$50 for a forum?
$40 for tagging?

Uh, yeah. Expression Engine will eat WordPress' dust pretty much forever.

[andrea_r]

As long as EE has a paywall structured around it, even in the worst case scenarios for WordPress, would that prevent it from ever taking over?

Yes. People are too used to free.

By the time you'd have a big enough paradigm shift, the whole publishing platform landscape will have changed anyway. While I don't doubt EE will stick around and have a decent userbase, as it is quite robust, free is hard to compete with.

[Ipstenu]

Can I shoot the post for being black background, white text? Ow.

I went around the cost thing this morning on a different topic ;) It's not the cost, it's what you get FOR the cost. If I'm paying $200 to start up (or $150 if I forsake forums), then extra for a wiki plugin, I better get some decent support.

What do I see? http://expressionengine.com/support

Kinda looks like a business version of WP. Nothing I don't get from WordPress, with a smaller community base.

Of course there IS a free version now.

Still. This alone would steer me off:

The EE developers been working on version 2.0 of the software for almost two years now.

They need to draw a line and say "THIS is 2.0." Fix the show-stoppers and put it out.

[slee]

WordPress is far better from a usability point of view.
From standard if you ask a user who has never seen either before to login and create a page that shows on the menu WordPress wins every time.

EE you have to create a weblog and assign it etc but finding that out is a nightmare
WordPress you simply add page - done!

[jpelker]

As the post author, I was really just trying to answer a friend's question about comparing the two software packages. She was unfamiliar with both EE and WP and if I'm teaching someone to swim, I wouldn't throw them in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

If you're a world-class PHP developer, heck, you could just build your own CMS, so the argument wouldn't even matter. Unfortunately, most of us start out (or maybe never move past) copying and pasting bits of code that we like from other developers' efforts. And that's okay because, well, programming isn't for everyone.

So, for anyone new to programming or CMS's in general, WordPress is difficult to beat. If you like EE better, that's fine, too, but I've tried a lot of CMS's and guess what? WordPress was the first that I understood intuitively.

Usability is the most undervalued quality in production, and I think the WP guys and gals knew what they were doing when they established their low cost of entry philosophy. Adoption rates seem to be the very important in the quality of a software community and WordPress has made a science out of converting first time users.

[andrea_r]

Exactly. I usually tell newbies if they can login to yahoo or hotmail, they can handle the backend of WordPress.