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ExpressionEngine, It's awesome. But it's not as flexible as Drupal with User Management.
Updated May 21, 2014

ExpressionEngine, It's awesome. But it's not as flexible as Drupal with User Management.

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

2.7.2

Modules Used

  • Freeform
  • Channel Images
  • Tagger

Overall Satisfaction with ExpressionEngine

ExpressionEngine was the CMS for our intranet, it was being used by an organization of 200+ users. It gave a flexible, yet easy use solution for people to manage their own content. But I feel it fell short with user management.
  • Templating
  • Conditional Comments
  • Content Management
  • Member (User) Management
  • Easier Update Process
  • Free Support
  • N/A
ExpressionEngine is great from easy of use, I feel like there is functionality from member groups that it could really benefit from.
Currently I've been working a lot with Drupal, and even though ExpressionEngine admin is more user friendly with Drupal 8 being on the horizon I don't see that as much of an issue in the future. With Drupal being free, extremely flexible, and enhanced with Drupal 8 I would find it hard to justify the 299 for a license that would be required for most of the projects that I work on.
Based on the last version I used, if a site required heavy use of roles/permissions I would look more towards something like Drupal.