Hi Ellis Labs and the Community at large,
Hope you’re well! I’ve been using WordPress as a basis for CMS like builds for a long while (really stretching it on occasion), but have been peering enviously at Expression Engine for some time.
We’ve got a rather large project coming up which will involve some social aspects, monetisation streams (on-site advertising plus virtual product sales and account up-selling), and it just seems like too much of a stretch for WordPress to handle securely and tidily.
I figured now would be a good time to make the leap to EE, but wondered whether you’d be able to advise me about the best path to take.
I appreciate that a good amount of the functionality mentioned above would not be achievable out-of-the-box for EE, and we expect to take on a lot of additional coding to develop the project. However I wondered whether Expression Engine would act as a good jumping off point for a project involving the above, or whether you think I’d be better off starting with the flexibility offered by the base CodeIgniter framework.
guess my question is related to just that - flexibility. Since there will be a lot of additional, non-native functionality added to this project – would the existing structure of EE be a constraint at all?
In my experience of WordPress, I’ve found it fairly straightforward to bolt entire areas of functionality onto the side - hooking into the existing administration and user management systems etc. Would I be able to approach development in a similar way here?
Anyhow, I’ll end my wall of text here. Thanks loads for your attention and help!
Cheers,
Fran