Another WP EE Comparison

It’s a popular topic but not always done well and without bias. This latest matchup between ExpressionEngine and WordPress is by Lab.Sixtyfive. It was posted early last month but it just came across my radar.

Gregor McKelvie is rebuilding the Lab.Sixtyfive blog in ExpressionEngine and jotted down some comparisons between the two systems. As was pointed out in the comments, judging ExpressionEngine by what it can do as a blogging tool isn’t a great way to approach things. For most simple blogs EE is probably more than is needed.

He did have some nice things to say about the community:

I have to say, I love the EE community. Ellis Labs [sic] get a hard time for not being as responsive as they could be – and that may well be true – however, the community is knowledgeable, quick to respond and helpful. They also follow up on posts to see if the issues were resolved. That’s not to say the WP community isn’t good – it is – but it’s large and I get the feeling that the EE community is more manageable and better connected to one another.

At our current size and with only a handful of major sites, we are definitely more connected. Twitter (and the #eecms hashtag) have changed this a little because there’s some great information being shared there and it’s more disconnected (and for people searching Google for help, harder to find).

Read Gregory’s entire writeup, which is just part 1 of hopefully more thoughts in later posts: WordPress vs Expression Engine - Part 1