What with all the hullabaloo concerning MoveableType 3.0 I thought it was time I looked at alternative blogging engines.
MoveableType has been annoying me for a while. Every time I upgrade the thing I have to tweak some files to make it work with my web host’s CGI wrappers. Installing MT plug-ins (to deal with the horrendous comment spam) wasn’t working for me. The template language was really getting on my nerves - it really conflicts with Golive’s idea of what a tag should look like. And last but not least the rebuild issue was slowly getting more and more annoying
ExpressionEngine doesn’t seem to have any of these problems. It imported the MT data with only one slight hiccup. The installation instructions and install scripts worked fine out of the box. EE has comment spam protection built-in. The tags used by the template system look like {this} (and won’t get confused as html tags) and last but not least it has no rebuild wait time. And of course it’s PHP not Perl, so I have some chance at least of being able to tweak it myself.
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