WordPress VS Blogger
Which is better, wordpress or blogger??
In my most humble opinion, I find that WordPress is probably better – looking at all the features that WordPress provides to their users/bloggers, it so much more. Let alone the “Page” function…
WordPress has a function of having Category – it allows your readers to choose what category they want to particularly read on and this and that.
It sounds really cool to me (:
Now I’ll have to create different category of topic which I blogged on. I got around 220 post migrated from my previous blog on Blogger, and I am NOT going to specially go and categorise them one by one, I’ll just leave them as it us; uncategorised.
Other than that, all new post I’m gonna blogged in future will belongs to a category! Well yeah, I’ll think of the categories as I blog. Currently only one new category – MMORPG – due to my previous post. hehs.
Note that the Rohan Online post is one which I typed few days ago, it’s not updated in the rss feed due to Blogger – they did not update my rss feed. Even today – 11th June 2008, the rss feed is STILL NOT updated; go take a look at my old blog at http://liife-iish-darrk.blogspot.com/ and you will know what I meant.
Scroll all the way down to the bottom, I specially made one box of “most updated” rss feed. The LATEST rss feed they updated is a post that doesn’t even exist. Yes, I deleted it to see if it updates, and it turns out to be no, it didn’t.
Well, what else to say, I’ll repost the entry on “Bug in Blogger RSS FEED” again tonight, so that it updates; As I’m pinging my entries on other sites, thus I got to make sure my post do get pinged, so other people could read it – I hope to see how many unique views I could get for certain topic ;p
So far my highest record on unique view per post on one single day is 47 – the topic is kept secret though, nonethelessly, I got around 8 post with 40+ views also, and 10+ post with 30 over views. I hope to hit a higher record in future ;D
So well, that’s it, and one more thing – WordPress allows me to press “Enter” and new paragraph appears. In Blogger, you cannot even press enter to get one empty line. All “Enter” or line break you try to press, they becomes a “br” tag.
People who knows HTML will knows what I meant, meaning – you spam alot of “Enter” to get the space you want, when you publish it, it becomes only one “br” tag, and all your text and chunk up together – very hard to read.
And my solution to it is to manually type a “p” tag at the top, and start typing my contents.. then whenever I want an empty line, I paste a “/p” tag and “p” tag. Until the end, I’ll add in one last “/p” tag to end it. Then the codes turns out properly~
Sorry to those who don’t understand my previous paragraph of “p” and “/p” thing, that’s not essential, just a simple tips to those who uses Blogger to blog. :p
Well, I’ll end my entry here, thanks for reading my post!
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June 11, 2008 at 12:02 pm
wordpress is WAY better. i just feel that blogger is too overrun by erm, teens who post endless pictures of themselves in endless poses. it just kills the writing spirit for me. wordpress makes me feel professional, though.
pity that the selection of skins here is pretty limited.
June 11, 2008 at 12:43 pm
Yeah, I felt so too. The post I migrated from my previous blog are all in light color font due to the dark color background, as a result, to make my past entries readable, I choose a skin with dark background – after searching for quite long, this should be the nicest one I guess x)
The skins are truly super limited (:
June 11, 2008 at 1:04 pm
i am considering moving my blog to wordpress but am having second thought because almost everything i use is owned by google therefore it is much easier to customize with blogger. i heard some features are not possible for wordpress or are harder to customize. oh, how do you transfer your old posts to a new blog? i havent figured that part out. you could kindly email me at kullovesyou@gmail.com. thank you very much
June 11, 2008 at 3:59 pm
I like the categories function in wordpress too, but I got too lazy to re-learn its blogging style so I stuck to blogspot.
June 11, 2008 at 4:26 pm
of course word press is better, it’s fully customizable and it’s open source. But for those who doesn’t host a website, they will use blogger, since blogger will do the work if all you wanted was blogging personal stuff.
June 11, 2008 at 5:38 pm
Blogger has category function too. The best is geeklog. I cannot make blogspot to operate like wordpress, and i need about 5 – 10 plugins to make wordpress operate like geeklog.
June 11, 2008 at 8:21 pm
Don’t let your blog’s traffic be the reason you blog.
WordPress.com blogs does have very few themes, but if you pay everything is customizable. If you do not want to have any restrictions, you should get a webhost and then use wordpress.org instead like I have.
June 12, 2008 at 1:07 am
I think the interface is really important. I find WordPress have a better interface. Better interface helps blogger manage their blogs better. So WordPress +1.
June 12, 2008 at 1:58 am
Very interesting post, but I want to point out that in blogger, multiple line breaks can be successfully published & displayed by pressing “enter” several times.
It’d be best if you can summarise all the pros 7 cons into a single table for viewing convenience. =)
June 12, 2008 at 2:39 am
I once used Blogger. Then I switched to the dark side of WordPress. I was a loyal WordPress user, but the themes left me empty. As a designer, I wanted to put my personal feel into my blogs.
The categories and stuff were fine, but it’s seriously too small to consider.
Not forgetting, I got MASSIVE exposure on WordPress, which was good and everything, but I realise that the WHOLE WORLD could see me. And I wanted some privacy, and WordPress never guaranteed me that.
I like the traffic. Average was 300 – 500. My peak was 1,200~ views on one day. It was TMTH (too much to handle), the consequences it had on my psychological health. So I went back to Blogger and led a normal life.
Too much to explain to be honest.
June 12, 2008 at 9:42 am
WordPress over Blogger any day for exactly what you mentioned. RSS, tagging, categories and generally the better feel. But I will agree with darran, self-hosting on WordPress is the bomb! I was with wordpress.com for about 4 months and switched to self-hosting with WordPress. SO much better.
June 23, 2008 at 4:14 am
Yes, I am having same dilemma – blogger or wordpress. Here is my solution – and I only started blogging five days OK so somewhat easier – I have two! One with wordpress, enclosed, and one with blogger at http://johncwelsh@blogspot.com. I am going to compare and contrast. Of course wordpress’ tags are better and more professional but blogger has some really cool links to Twitter and google functionality. I’ll let you know what I decide!
June 23, 2008 at 4:19 am
I agree with most comments so here is my solution. I have two blogs, one on wordpress and one on blogger – http://johncwelsh@blogspot.com. I only started five days ago so it makes it easy. I just cut and paste from one into another. WordPress impresses because of the tags, blogger because it seems more up to date about links ie to Twitter. I am going to test it and let you know what happens!