Intereactive Web Design - Sugar Land, TX

We just pulled the trigger and converted the blog portion of our site over to Wordpress. Previously, it was running on Expression Engine along with the rest of the site, but to be honest the Admin area just isn’t up to par with what Wordpress has done with their latest releases. We all felt that the workflow just wasn’t where we wanted it. If someone else needed to preview/review a post before it goes live, the EE admin area just gets in the way of doing that easily. The UI for Wordpress is 10 times better and 10 times faster to do things such as put images inside of posts, etc.. And honestly… the way EE handles comment/form SPAM is just very antiquated.

There are still things I LOVE about EE. Their templating is by far the best I’ve ever used and the robustness of the rest of it as a full blown CMS enables us to do just about anything we want. But when it comes to blogging… I believe that Wordpress really has it locked up right now. Total cutover time took about 3-4 hours and I consider myself only marginal at wordpress integration. The toughest thing, by far, was ensuring that the RSS feed didn’t break. So anyway, this will hopefully remove a few roadblocks to getting some posts out the door that we have been talking about for a few months.