Finally, I have ported Expression Engine to Wordpress and why
Well, hopefully it should be pretty transparent. I used this article on exporting expression engine to wordpress with some modifications (email me for help anyone). And after hours of using some old css code and some new code, I hope everything the general look should be pretty transparent. Well, it’s really been a long time coming. Expression Engine(EE) is great, don’t get me wrong, but it’s not adequate for my ‘uses’, it can do a lot of shit, in a really complicated fashion while, Wordpress(WP) can still do some of that complicated shit while making it much easier for me to understand and update. Some little things; categories and tags, can be really useful, but I never got to using them in EE. While WP has it real clean and simple right there on the side in the admin page. I believe I was able to port everything pretty successfully without a hitch, comments and all. But please if you see something you don’t like, please let me know.
- With Expression Engine you had to pay for a license.
- Wordpress from what Matt says will always be free, thanks Matt.
- With EE you could have tinymce, but it was tricky
- With WP, it’s built in and a life saver
I like how WP auto saves your posts, and in EE, it just wasn’t there. EE is supposedly working on the next great CMS, and I’m sure it’ll be great, but a simpler looking and as powerful CMS/blog software is #1 in my book.
Now I’m gonna install Leopard.
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October 27th, 2007 at 10:17 pm
Dude. It is about time.
October 28th, 2007 at 5:52 am
Thanks Rob for the comment, it also helped me fix another css discrepancy.
October 28th, 2007 at 1:58 pm
Heh, ya. I saw that it was white on white and figured you’d be all over it before long. May I recommend that you not center the comments? It makes it had to find the comments next to the date and all that. Also, I’d request a larger font in both the content and comment portions. This stuff is tiny at a decent resolution.
In response to your comment on my blog. Ya–get used to it.
The open source stuff is so widely used it is high profile for hacks and so they are forced to issue exploit fixes often. I usually let the versions slide for a while because I’m always worried something is going to go wrong when I do an upgrade.
You just have to bite the bullet and do it though.
With Drupal, Weekly Davespeak runs the 4.7.x series. 5.x.x has been available for a year now ant 6.x.x is in beta already. Unfortunately, I will have to completely redesign the templates in order to move to either of these newer versions, so I don’t think that will happen any time soon. Making WDS look like WDS in Drupal was tough work. Fun though. Interesting stuff.
October 28th, 2007 at 2:13 pm
Thanks for the recommendation! Made the suggested changes.
November 4th, 2007 at 8:11 pm
Ya man, this is way better. Muchos gracias.
November 6th, 2007 at 8:58 am
[...] Switching to Wordpress. This is definitely up there as a super smart decision to make, and I’m glad I did, I feel like it’s just a better platform and much easier to use for me. [...]
December 15th, 2007 at 8:54 am
very interesting, but I don’t agree with you
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December 21st, 2007 at 7:31 pm
Hi…if you have the time, could you tell me EXACTLY how you did this, because I’m wanting to move one of my client’s sites from EE to Wordpress.
Thanks!!
January 3rd, 2008 at 7:49 pm
Here is the solution step by step:
1. Of course, back up your EE blog - critical files, database, and key templates.
2. Make sure you are suing EE 1.4.2 or later, if not, upgrade. Yea, I know it’s a pain, but why are you using such an old version?
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3. Read the wiki here: EE Exporting Entries. Follow it verbatim closely. IT’S CRITICAL THAT YOU REMOVE ALL WHITESPACE FROM THE CODE THAT EE HAS ON THEIR SUPPORT FORUMS. No blanks or spaces at all, just keep the line breaks as is. Replace “default_site” with name of your weblog. Go to the index page and select “view rendered template”. If you cannot view the index page, you’ve probably misnamed it. Make sure your comments are there completey written out. If it’s ok, then do view source, save as the default name (index.php). Note that you can export a max of 999 entries. If you have more you’ll have to go back and do this more than once and limit to older entries.
4. In Wordpress, go to Import and click Movable Type. Browse to your file. If your admin name doesn’t match you will be prompted on how you’d like to fix that. Select import. The wait can take while if you have a lot of imports.
February 18th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
Not sure why you said you have to pay for EE… there’s an EE Core version that’s a free download, that has most of the features that the paid EE versions have.
February 21st, 2008 at 12:34 pm
Hey Larry, I paid for the EE version because I wanted some functionality, and support. Now that I’ve compared the two, I like the Wordpress community better. Not that the EE community isn’t good also. Just personal preference.
July 9th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
Nice blog,i will come back here everyday, greetings