What is ExpressionEngine?
It is a flexible, feature-rich, free open-source content management platform that empowers hundreds of thousands of individuals and organizations around the world to easily manage their web site.
ExpressionEngine is a tool in the Self-Hosted Blogging / CMS category of a tech stack.
ExpressionEngine is an open source tool with 458 GitHub stars and 125 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to ExpressionEngine's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses ExpressionEngine?
Companies
437 companies reportedly use ExpressionEngine in their tech stacks, including InMobi, BlackLine, and Infobip.
Developers
12 developers on StackShare have stated that they use ExpressionEngine.
ExpressionEngine Integrations
JavaScript, HTML5, MySQL, PHP, and Actix are some of the popular tools that integrate with ExpressionEngine. Here's a list of all 7 tools that integrate with ExpressionEngine.
ExpressionEngine's Features
- Your site content is stored in channels—flexible data containers with fields for any type of information
- A Template may contain ANYTHING that a webpage might contain: HTML, JavaScript, PHP, whatever
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ExpressionEngine Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to ExpressionEngine?
WordPress
The core software is built by hundreds of community volunteers, and when you’re ready for more there are thousands of plugins and themes available to transform your site into almost anything you can imagine. Over 60 million people have chosen WordPress to power the place on the web they call “home” — we’d love you to join the family.
Craft
Craft is a content management system (CMS) that’s laser-focused on doing one thing really, really well: managing content.
Joomla!
Joomla is a simple and powerful web server application and it requires a server with PHP and either MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQL Server to run it.
Drupal
Drupal is an open source content management platform powering millions of websites and applications. It’s built, used, and supported by an active and diverse community of people around the world.
CodeIgniter
CodeIgniter is a proven, agile & open PHP web application framework with a small footprint. It is powering the next generation of web apps.
