I’m waiting for you all to say “I told you so” to this post. I’m back to Wordpress. Before you all assume expression engine must be terrible though, let me tell you it isn’t.

My reasons for switching back
I found I understood ee quite well, out of all the cms systems I looked at it goes up there with Wordpress as having one of the easiest templating systems to use. The idea of having ‘weblogs’ is genius and if you think about it there is so much potential for them as ee treats them as data. You can also completely customise the fields each weblog has.

Why did I switch back? Permalinks. If I’d started this site with ee then it’d be fine but I couldn’t get the permalink structure to work. I mentioned weblogs before each has a name, eg blog so all your urls go to /blog when your dealing with the posts, then there’s the template name which my ‘pages’ were using all in all it got very irritating having an extra /blog or /templategroupname on my permalink structure - add to that the posts had /blog/comments on their permalinks I just couldn’t wait to get rid of it!

I’m sure I could have just redirected with 301 but as someone (eventually) pointed out on the forums thats a complicated way of doing things and as the other method was no where to be found I’d rather go crawling back to familiarity begging for forgiveness!

Thats the other issue with expression engine, its paid, although the core version is free the support staff are always going to give priority to paying customers so thread replies were slow. I’ll miss that I was treated with some respect though. Unlike on the Wordpress forums

The core version is also majorly lacking in spam protection, theres akismet but we all know one spam protector isn’t enough.

I’m sure I’ll use expression engine for sites again in the future, but for an already existing site with a somewhat established permalink structure its just not feasable.

So without further adue I introduce eruanna.net v58! All lovely and organised, feel free to criticise :)