Why Do People Hate Expression Engine? 19% People Do (46 opinions)

Built for users not developers! Stupid thing!
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Stupid CMS trying to exterminate ants with nukes and even fail at that try. And they want money for that ... read all

by zz z on 27 Apr - reply - Helpful? YES NO Thank You! - Flag
Templating parsing order is with different types
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Templating parsing order is with different types of variables and tags is complex. Often php is necessary and you have to set it to execute before or after EE parsing ... read all

by darkwing-duck on 08 Feb - reply - Helpful? YES NO Thank You! - Flag

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Templating parsing order is with different types
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Templating parsing order is with different types of variables and tags is complex. Often php is necessary and you have to set it to execute before or after EE parsing ... read all

by darkwing-duck on 08 Feb - reply - Helpful? YES NO Thank You! - Flag
Their stubborn refusal to accept how people want
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Their stubborn refusal to accept how people want to use their software. No official support for URL rewriting (unbelievable in 2011) or query strings (I hear that one or two ... read all

by Alex D on 01 Feb - 1 reply - reply - Helpful? YES NO Thank You! - Flag
EE is built for low-level developers that think
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EE is built for low-level developers that think it's neat to output content with curly brackets. There is no controller or context for a template. You can output all sorts ... read all

by Stephen on 11 Jan - reply - Helpful? YES NO Thank You! - Flag
I hate it... What kind of CMS creates a 400
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I hate it... What kind of CMS creates a 400 column table (exp_member_data) by creating two dedicated columns for every field in every weblog? Also the back end looks like ... read all

by Crypto B on 18 Oct - reply - Helpful? YES NO Thank You! - Flag
I hate how using ExpressionEngine means I have to
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I hate how using ExpressionEngine means I have to say "yes" to every client request! Is there anything ExpressionEngine can't do? read all

by User-948h3r on 22 Sep - reply - Helpful? YES NO Thank You! - Flag
I hate expressionengine because it only takes me
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I hate expressionengine because it only takes me minutes to do something that used to take hours. And I can't bill for that! read all

by User-8585i1 on 14 Aug - reply - Helpful? YES NO Thank You! - Flag