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Bloggers Vs WordPress: What you need to know?

Most of us have heard of both these blogging platforms: Wordpress and Blogger. But how much do we know about each of these? In this article, we take a look at the positives and obstacles in each platform these platforms and compare them on the parameters of flexibility, customization and ease of use.

If you want to customize your blog, you get added freedom with Wordpress (something Wordpress doesn't offer) as Wordpress is Open Source. When you choose Wordpress, you gain full access 2 the database and all the image files in the Wordpress platform including the PHP and CSS files. Now what happens when you can access the entire Wordpress system?

When you have access to the whole of the Wordpress CMS, you can be as creative as you like with the effect that your blog will have functionalities that normally won’t be a part of websites built on other platforms. A small caveat here: you don't get this functionality if your website is hosted on Wordpress.com. But you will still be able to host files other than images like PDFs, Office and Word files. 

 

Where Wordpress Scores

One of the difficult things to do when it comes to Blogger is manipulating your XML schema. Here, most users choose customized templates. But the problem with Blogger is that their documentation is sparse though some of Blogger’s tags are indeed documented. 

 

Wordpress scores here with the advantage of greater flexibility when you categorize posts. Users do not have sub-categories with labels on Blogger. On the other hand, substitute-categories are an integral part of the Wordpress environment.

Usability

Wordpress gives you free hosting for up to 3GB of space in comparison to Blogger which gives you only 1. But apart from that, it is Blogger that scores on the usability front. It is very easy to start if you are a lay user. On a Wordpress self-hosted blog, you need to download the software, upload it to a server, configure the database settings and run the installation program included in the software. 

 

So, Wordpress does emerge stronger though Blogger is easier to start with. We’ll look at more on these platforms in our upcoming articles!