Developers should select a platform that precisely meets their requirements, and at the same time fits their skills in order to obtain good end-results. Both WordPress and Expression engine are proved to be well-designed platforms with merits and demerits of their own.
We are presenting a comparative analysis of Expression engine vs WordPress in the following sections, by putting ourselves into the shoes of a regular user.
Comparing Noteworthy Features
We will begin by evaluating the standard noteworthy features that can be seen in each of these platforms.
WordPress Features
- It is one of the most preferred Content Management Systems because of its simplicity. Suppose if it doesn’t come integrated with the Web Hosting, you can easily install it using scripts like Fantastico or manual setup which shouldn’t take more than 5-10 minutes.
- It comes with absolutely free licensing fees.
- It can be used to handle multiple websites, but it is not recommended for a beginner PHP user. Self-Hosted WordPress blog provides maximum resource for the bloggers. So, choosing the best WordPress Hosting solutions is one of the main duty of the webmaster.
- It costs nothing to include additional add-ons.
- It offers excellent usability. It just involves drag and drop kind of functionality, and its consistency is within menus. It has the potential to navigate within submenus.
- User management with advanced role assignment and several other permissions won’t be provided with the normal WordPress set-up, but it can be easily included as an additional plug-in named
- It offers exceptional documentation functionality for all basic needs, whereas documentation for some advanced functionalities is quite hard to locate.
Expression Engine Features
- It comes with a starting licensing fee that ranges from $99 to $299.
- Even with the help of this platform, one can easily manage with matching CMS, but you may have to spend another $80 to $200 to do this.
- It fails to provide easy navigation between posts.
- Add-ons are very expensive, and an EE add-on would cost $40.
- It is not capable of providing fine-tuned settings to its users.
- Even the records written by Expression engine fail to work efficiently.
Ease of Managing Content
WordPress
The biggest difference between Expression engine and WordPress is in the method in which the content is managed. As we all know, in WordPress you can create a fresh post. The new post that is created will have a section for adding content, and certain custom fields, which are usually determined either by the developer who has created the basic template’s structure.
As a result, when you make a new post using WordPress, the content will be presented in many different ways based on the category selected, and whether the category is a parent or sub-category. The items selected by the user decide how the final content will be presented. In this way, WordPress roots as a basic blogging platform.
Expression Engine
On the other hand, Expression engine manages content somewhat differently. In this case, the user labels channels, and then each channel can be regarded as a discrete blog. For every channel, you are allowed to define categories, custom fields, and behaviors.
All channels will be concealed from the regular user in the administration section of the website. Typically, the user will be having access only to publish and edit parts of the website and probably certain modules.
Conclusion
On the whole, it could be concluded that from user perspective, WordPress would be an ideal choice for beginners due to its excellent usability and documentation functionalities and of course its Free. But avid webmasters may not have to worry about this aspect, and they may consider using Expression engine for adding uniqueness to their blogs/websites!
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