Joe Van Dyk wrote:
Anyone worked with ExpressionEngine? How does it compare to Radiant?
I own a copy (and can sell/transfer it to you if you end up wanting to go
with it).
I'd hoped that, because it was a mature product, it'd be quicker to get up
and running than with Radiant, where the docs weren't very complete (this
was before Mohit's excellent work).
In reality, EE is just as hit-and-miss as any other CMS. There are some
things that work great, some what do you mean it doesn't do X? gaps, some
patches upon patches in the design, and a whole lot of infrastructure to
learn before you can dive in and start editing templates.
EE is in the middle of a grand rewrite to 2.0, which has been on the horizon
since at least last March. Meanwhile, their support team is highly
responsive, but...
Well, there's a strange vibe in the forums, is the best I can put it. They
have an annotated user guide (like PHP), but only users who've posted 100
messages to the forums can add notes. Which means you don't get any of the
I just installed this, and here's what documentation would have helped me
posts. Kinda the whole point of a wiki. It felt, I dunno, controlling, in
that old-school programmer way.
Jay
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