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When comparing ExpressionEngine vs TextPattern, the Slant community recommends TextPattern for most people. In the question“What are the best web content management systems?” TextPattern is ranked 10th while ExpressionEngine is ranked 14th.
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Pros
Pro No restrictions on how a site can be designed
Pro Focus on security
Pro Commercial support
Pro Great documentation
Pro Easy to use interface
Pro Well suited for sites of all sizes
Cons
Con Simple pages can hurt performance
A simple page can rack up on database queries. Many sites usually suffer from this. Create an empty page and there's a few queries that run and it's unneccessary.
Con Can be overkill for simple or smaller sites
Con Cost is high
Especially for commercial sites
Con Built on top of codeigniter: an outdated framework
Codeigniter was cool.... back when PHP was at 5.2