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Craft vs ExpressionEngine: What are the differences?

What is Craft? A CMS built to do one thing and do it well: manage content. Craft is a content management system (CMS) that’s laser-focused on doing one thing really, really well: managing content.

What is ExpressionEngine? Open-Source and feature-rich content management system. 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.

Craft and ExpressionEngine can be categorized as "Self-Hosted Blogging / CMS" tools.

Some of the features offered by Craft are:

  • Relations
  • Matrix
  • Assets

On the other hand, ExpressionEngine provides the following key 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
  • Live Preview

ExpressionEngine is an open source tool with 183 GitHub stars and 46 GitHub forks. Here's a link to ExpressionEngine's open source repository on GitHub.

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Pros of ExpressionEngine
  • 8
    Quick bespoke CMS
  • 7
    Easy to use CMS
  • 6
    Clean slate approach to templating
  • 2
    Has it's own StackExcange
  • 2
    Clean templating markup (twig)
  • 2
    Great support
  • 2
    Free licence available for single user account version
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    What is Craft?

    Craft is a content management system (CMS) that’s laser-focused on doing one thing really, really well: managing content.

    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.

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    What are some alternatives to Craft and ExpressionEngine?
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