ExpressionEngine Reviews & Insights

Score10 out of 10

88 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for ExpressionEngine are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Reliable Performance: Many users have praised the product for its reliable performance. Several reviewers mentioned that the product consistently meets their expectations and performs well in various scenarios. Ease of Use: The ease of use is a common pro mentioned by several customers. Users appreciate how intuitive and user-friendly the product is, making it easy to navigate and operate without any hassle or confusion. Great Customer Support: Some users have expressed their satisfaction with the great customer support provided by the company. They have found the support team to be responsive, helpful, and efficient in resolving any issues or inquiries they had.

ExpressionEngine Reviews

3 Reviews

Enterprises (1,001+ employees)

ExpressionEngine, Affordable Comercial CMS

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

February 19, 2016

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use ExpressionEngine as our enterprise CMS solution for the entire university. We host over 10,000 pages, support over 75 departments, train and manage over 200 editors, and serve over 4 million page views per week. After evaluating many commercial CMS solutions, ExpressionEngine was selected for several reasons. First, it was far more affordable than other choices presented to us. Second, our in house skill set was in php development in a LAMP stack environment. Third, it is easily extensible, allowing us to develop custom solutions in house and not be reliant on only solutions provided by the vendor. Out of the box, ExpressionEngine is extremely flexible in regards of how you decide to display cont in the presentation layer.

ExpressionEngine's affordability and flexibility have allowed us to continually enhance our web presence and use the system to build several stand alone web applications.

Pros

Extremely flexible and extensible
Fabulous user and developer community on Twitter, Facebook and Slack Chat.
Wide range of third party add-ons that solve many challenges. Ranging from calendars to special field types.
Cost of entry is extremely affordable compared to other commercial solutions.
Runs on any LAMP server setup. Though, larger installations will require something with more horsepower. We run on a load balanced, 3 server setup.

Cons

Running Local, Staging, and Production environments takes a bit of work.
The Control Panel set up and theme are not great. We usually swap out the theme. Though once you become familiar and set up quick links, it becomes much easier to use.
It can be a little resource heavy on large, high traffic sites without some additional caching.

Likelihood to Recommend

It functions well for a small blog, a catalog site, or a large high traffic site. Some notable sites are Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Garmin, and Pizza Hut.

Alternatives Evaluated

Sitecore Web Content Management and Ektron Web Content Management System

Systems presented to us by our integration partner were comparatively quite expensive, required a different infrastructure than currently in place, as well as different technology skills that were not currently present in house. With ExpressionEngine we were able to have a development platform up and running with in a matter of hours, that was not a demo site presented and managed by the CMS vendor. This allowed us to take a deep dive, quickly, into what we could do with the system and what it could do for us for a very low cost of entry.

Jim Wyse

Web Services Manager in Information Technology at UMass Boston (Higher Education, 1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

9 years of experience

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The best f you want to create templates to have a lot of independent subsites

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

July 7, 2015

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It was mostly used to create sub sites of each medical department.

Pros

Customizable
Independent subsites
Easy to use and to learn (it took me a little bit to learn about this CMS and start doing my own plugins)

Cons

The variety of plugins is not that big, besides the database is the best one in performance

Likelihood to Recommend

So far it's one of my favorite CMS [products], especially if you want to create templates to have a lot of independent subsites.

Alternatives Evaluated

wordpress, drupal

Juan Bolivar

Database Analyst in Information Technology at University of Miami (Higher Education, 5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

EE stands for Exceptionally Excellent!

Rating: 7 out of 10

May 2, 2014

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use EE to manage our main company website as well as several other microsites. It is used be several departments, however, I would like for it to become the standard CMS of the company. EE allows me to quickly build websites that the business can easily update.

Pros

My favorite thing about EE is the ability to easily create custom content input/edit forms that are easy for the business user to navigate and fill out.
With EE, there is very little need for a WYSIWYG as you are able to easily target user inputted content with stylesheets. Making the site more consistent and avoiding the frustration WYSIWYGs can cause.
The templating system is easy. You stick your CSS in a CSS template and your HTML in an HTML template. No zipped packages. No PHP to sift through to create a new look and feel of the site.

Cons

I would really like to see the ability to customize how the content forms (channel entry forms) display. In other words, I would like to be able to hide certain fields if a certain field is equal to a certain value and create more specific validation based on what has been inputted in the form.
I currently do not like how the channel entry form fields are ordered. A drag and drop interface would be much easier than inputting the sort number.
The checkboxes in the channel entry forms are too easily checked, all you have to do is click within the checkbox area (which is easily done when scrolling).

Likelihood to Recommend

As with any CMS very custom functionality can be limited. Sometimes you are able to find plugins to fill the gaps, though. It really just depends on the type of functionality needed to support the website. However, for most simple marketing sites, it is a great tool.

Alternatives Evaluated

I didn't select EE, it was the tool that was used by the company when I came in. However, I do have some experience in WordPress and would much prefer to work with EE over it.

Verified User

Professional in Information Technology (Food Production company, 10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience