Item: ExpressionEngine
Rating: 4
Author: Claudia Lorena Aguilar Ayala

Overall Satisfaction with ExpressionEngine

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

My husband and I are software developers. We work for companies with websites built in Drupal, ExpressionEngine, WordPress or any php based platform. There is one company using ExpressionEngine for their website. They have forms, user registration, and data display.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Simple admin interface for the end user.
Generates clean markup for front-end theming.

Cons

Not flexible enough to create a really custom website.
Source control can be a mess since it's mostly database.
Data migration even core updates or server migration are not easy to make.
Is not an open source license.

Return on Investment

Big clients use it.

Alternatives Considered

Drupal, WordPress and Magento

It would be my third option

Other Software Used

Drupal, WordPress, Magento

Likelihood to Recommend

Dynamic validations or complex conditionals are hard to accomplish.

ExpressionEngine Feature Ratings

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Jeremy Sherry
commented 8 years ago
I'm not sure of your experience level with EE if you say "Not flexible enough to create a really custom website." EE's incredibly flexible. An elaboration of the issue's you encountered would be helpful.
- Claudia Lorena Aguilar Ayala
  commented 8 years ago
  Multilingual sites are not as simple as with other CMSs, surely you can use structure for simple pages, but when it comes for listing with different validations or filters for each language you have to really dig around to get there. Also custom forms like ranges, or specific validations like if option1 = true then show 3 more questions are also complicated/expensive. With the expensive solution, the forms are database dependent. Those are the ones that I recall, it has been more than two years since I actively worked with EE, I’ve been working with drupal since then.

ExpressionEngine, not the worst but not my favorite