As a new blogger, I was introduced to many blogging platforms
such as weebly, joomla, wordpress, blogger and the like with blogger and
wordpress being the names I saw most.
Wordpress is a blogging platform which assures you either two
things: A free blog which works like blogger (wordpress.com) and a paid one
(wordpress.org).
1. Paid Platforms
With wordpress.org you pay for the
platform unlike blogger and wordpress.com. When I started blogging I did not know much
about it and was just testing. I couldn’t just put in money and so I did away
with worpress.org.
As I grew with blogger and thought that I had learnt enough, I tried wordpress both (.org and .com).
2. Paid Hosting
With wordpress.org you pay for
hosting every month if you want to host it and not use wordpress as a subdomain
name but with blogger it’s somehow free. You just pay yearly at a low cost for
hosting if you don’t use blogger subdomain name.
3. Paid theme and plugins
Also, with wordpress.org, you buy
themes and plugins whiles you get them for free on blogger. These themes can be
quite costly. It can cost about
4. Blogger also works just like wordpress.com. That’s what many say even though there are differences.
In wordpress.com you can’t post
affiliate links or adverts there, your account will be deleted immediately but
with blogger you can.
In all I still stuck to blogger so instead of paying about including hosting, I get a blog almost for free.
Even though I know it is said that hosting your blog with blogger can be somehow risky because google can decide to terminate that service at any time as they say “it just stops things that everyone is happily using”.
I still don’t think google will do so and even if it’s going to do such a thing, it will alert the users before undertaking any project.
You just have to back up your blog on your device so that if anything like that occurs you will still have your blog.
That all. I hope you enjoyed the post. I prefer blogger, maybe you are still with wordpress. It’s your choice. Just choose wisely.
