WordPress 3.0 and Expression Engine 2.0

Posted by on Jun 19, 2010 in Blogging | 1 comment

I’m very happy to say that my WordPress sites are all upgraded to 3.0. But I have to admit that as a major point release, it doesn’t show much. I’m not saying there weren’t major upgrades, because there were. The merge of WordPress and WordPress MU is a major accomplishment. Kudos to the Automattic team for this. I’ve been waiting for this since I started using WordPress back in 1.2. However, it’s a disappointment that I will probably have to reinstall my WordPress on my websites to get it working the way I want. While this is not a big deal, it does pose this question:

WordPress 3.0 or ExpressionEngine 2.0?

I’ve gone and upgraded my license for EE 2.0 only because Leslie Camacho, President of Ellislab has said that the release of ExpressionEngine 2.1 is “near”. That’s very encouraging to me. So I’ve set up my test site and I’m familiarizing myself with all the new features of 2.0. There are some things I won’t really know how they turn out until I go live, (such as spam comments and how well EE 2 handles them), however it seems pretty encouraging.

The control panel for WP 3 is pretty much the same as 2. There are no real big surprises here. This is a good thing in my opinion. The control panel for EE 2 is very different from 1, but at the same time, very familiar to veterans of 1. I’d say there are improvements, and there are things that probably didn’t need to be changed. I have yet to explore a lot of the new version.

More to follow.

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One Comment

  1. 10-9-2010
    Graham says:

    EE2 is a complete remake of EE, very much like Mac System 9 to OSX.

    Yes, it took a long time, and yes, EE2 is not backwards compatible with EE1, but much like Apple, the EllisLabs team looked hard at the evolution of EE and saw that in order to facilitate the future, they needed to lay a proper foundation. That foundation with OSX was the Unix core. With EE2, the foundation is CodeIgnitor.

    EE2 is a huge, huge leap from EE1. Although WordPress 3.0 is a nice update for WP, it's not — as you point out — a major overhaul. It's important to note that EE is really designed from the ground up to be a proper CMS… Whereas WordPress, although robustly featured now, was originally conceived as a blogging platform. The difference really comes out when you start to develop sites from scratch that deviate from a standard single-channel blog post format.

    I believe EE2 is vastly underrated as a CMS at this point… I very much encourage you to dive in and see what's new. A great place to start is http://devot-ee.com/, which tracks all the available plugins and add-ons for EE2 (and EE1).

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