After using E107 as our number once choice of Content Management System (From now on: CMS) for almost every website we ever made, hosted or abused we have used E107. We have been using this for well over 4 years now i guess and it has been awesome. The problem we ran into lately is that it just does not fit our needs in ways of design, content management and the lack of several other features.
The main reason is that lately we decided to start using the Content Management Plug-in more and it is just so god damn hard to customize, and it does not do what i want it to do. And after a month of trying new things, like simply adding google ads i gave up since even the hardcore E107 users could not help me. (i even send e-mails to users that asked similar questions 2-3 years ago in the e107.org forum and they still didn’t have solutions). The reason this is so important to us is that we want to get away for the “forum” type of website, and have more solid articles, and besides that a good forum. But i came to the conclusion that E107 is basically a news system, with a attached forum, and yes plug-ins like chat box, and polls but nothing really big…
Also i found out that allot of successful other websites either run their own custom made CMS, or use WordPress. The main reason for this is that WordPress is very easily customisable to almost any form, and E107 in the end is pretty limited. Yes you can change looks and stuff like that, but that simply does not meet our (my) requirements for a good CMS.
So here we are, trying out on WordPress, hoping for a successful ending. Please keep your thumbs crossed and if you have any hints / tips / suggestions don’t be afraid and let us know!
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