ExpressionEngine for Free
- May 15, 2004
- 4 comments
If you’re wanting to move away from MoveableType, and want a very powerful, flexible Web-publishing system, then go over to pMachine and send them an email saying you want to switch. They are giving away ExpressionEngine licenses to the first 1000 people who email them. The only limitation is you must be a personal user and have used another publishing system for at least 6 months. Commercial users don’t count.
That is TOTAL steal. EE is hands-down the best Web-publishing system I’ve tried out.
Got my copy today. I was surprised since I emailed them a day after the announcement. Looks like I’ll be able to try your plugins after all.
Just wondering, was it hard to migrate from pmachine to EE?
And, how did you deal with old permalinks that google crawled while you were still using pMachine?
Thanks.
Congrats! I have no doubt you will like EE. And I hope you like my plugins!
It was a piece of cake migrating from pMachine to EE. In fact, customizing EE was 10x easier than pMachine. It’s much more straightforward and easy to pick up. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me. Or you can try the EE support forums too.
For me, I didn’t really care about old links Google crawled because there weren’t too many. If I remember right, I didn’t have search-engine friendly URLs with pMachine, so Google wasn’t indexing most of my pages. Within a couple days, my entire site had been crawled again and was bringing in a ton of search-engine traffic.
Now that’s my take on it. You may consider your old permalinks more important than me.
fastu
Thanks for the tip, I just registered and emailed pMachine for a free copy of ExpressionEngine. Now I’ll just keep my fingers crossed that I was among the first 1000.