jpg 2021 March 24 by The Creative Monsters dallas web development agency , expressionengine , expressionengine versus wordpress , wordpress As a company is searching for a new website, their Content Management System (CMS) options should be part of this consideration. Many have heard of the more popular CMS’: WordPress, SquareSpace, Wix; but there is another one that we consider to be one of the best, ExpressionEngine. Companies naturally gravitate towards WordPress because more often than not, there is a large majority of internal team members who are comfortable with this CMS.
As one of the leading Dallas web development agencies in the area, our favored CMS is ExpressionEngine . This is why we prefer it over others and ExpressionEngine versus WordPress. ExpressionEngine versus WordPress At Dallas Media Group, our creative management firm understands that this opinion is a bit biased, but our team wants to say, we still design, develop and maintain WordPress websites.
What businesses should know
However, our website development team prefers ExpressionEngine for a couple of main reasons that are very common WordPress problems. There is no maintenance mode! In WordPress, when a user is making changes on the site, it can get stuck in maintenance mode which means it is scheduled maintenance.
This isn’t terrible, but if something disrupts the process, it can lock the site down. On ExpressionEngine, this is not a common process for updates. If a user is updating the site, the changes happen instantly, and if the user “breaks” it, there is an edit history on the backend up to 50 revisions.
It takes our developers a matter of seconds to a couple of minutes to reverse the edit and return it to the original design, content or images. Plugins For a website to perform specific tasks it might need a plugin. A plugin provides the website with the ability to automatically process the payments, e-commerce items and really anything else that a plugin can offer.
Putting the idea into practice
There are hundreds of plugins so it is just about finding the right one for your needs. The thing with WordPress plugins is that they can create havoc on the backend and even for customers. When it comes to ExpressionEngine versus WordPress is that plugins do not slow the site down, and if they do, it can easily be fixed without “breaking” the site.
Don’t get the spinning wheel of death because of an outdated plugin with WordPress. Security While WordPress is the top CMS, 90 percent of all WordPress sites get hacked at one point. There are 90,000 attacks per minute.
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