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Other than price (free vs paid) can anyone name a reason to use WP over EE. (Me personally, I liked pmachine over WP, but that’s me).

Other than price (free vs paid) can anyone name a reason to use WP over EE. (Me personally, I liked pmachine over WP, but that’s me).

If you are going to have a straight blog, WP is cheaper, much easier to setup, and has a lot of great themes available. If you want to use a custom design, integrate a forum, or expand the site beyond basic blog functionality, EE is a better choice.

If you are going to have a straight blog, WP is cheaper, much easier to setup, and has a lot of great themes available. If you want to use a custom design, integrate a forum, or expand the site beyond basic blog functionality, EE is a better choice.

That’s really what it is. WP is quick, easy, structured. If all you need is a colorful blog with some bells and whistles that are easy to set up, WP is very good.

If you need customizability, flexibility, security, dependability, and so on, and don’t know how to spell PHP, EE is a better choice.

Lots of “vs” threads around but I thought this was pretty good discussion. You can also ask a member who recently went from WP to EE. Perhaps he can share his thoughts and hands on.

gramps summed it up for you pretty good.

I think the only advantage of WP over EE is the license restrictions.  For instance you cant do a WPMU (i.e. wordpress.com) type site with EE.

I’ve had a client who wanted that type of setup, but I steered them to WPMU only because of the license restriction.

I think the only advantage of WP over EE is the license restrictions.  For instance you cant do a WPMU (i.e. wordpress.com) type site with EE. I’ve had a client who wanted that type of setup, but I steered them to WPMU only because of the license restriction.

I’ve seen a few folks bring up the licensing issue. In fact, this is a no brainer. WP is free. Drupal is free. For the most part, there are no license restrictions. Us it to build a site or build a thousand sites.

EE is commercial. If the EE license was roughly the same as WP or Drupal, even with a price tag, what is to prevent enterprising developers from creating an EE site which offers EE-built web sites to hundreds or thousands of users? That’s one license, thousands of customers. Lost. It doesn’t make much economic sense for EE to take that route. The company would lose revenue opportunities (revenue, which, amazingly, is what pays for development and support) many times over.

For the developer who wants a WP/Drupal style license, essentially with unlimited use for free, put yourself in EE’s shoes. You have a popular product that is well supported with a growing base of satisfied users and it brings in a steady revenue stream to pay for operations. Why would you change the license to be more like WP/Drupal? Where’s the benefit to the commercial operation? What type of license would make sense, commercially?

...and for those wanting more there is FREE framework CodeIgniter…
Slightly OT: Anyone used http://www.joovili.com/ for ‘social networking’?

Anyone used http://www.joovili.com/ for ‘social networking’?

Interesting software. I had to laugh at their idea of browser support.

“Firefox. IE. Opera. Netscape.”

Netscape?

I still target NN 4.7 😊 jk
But it may beat WPMU with 100s of plugins…someone pointed it out to me few days ago.

For the developer who wants a WP/Drupal style license, essentially with unlimited use for free, put yourself in EE’s shoes.

Oh, I have no problem with EE’s license and I actually applaud Ellis Labs for keeping a standard around their product.  Just stating the limitation 😉