WordPress vs Blogger
Friday 2 May 2008 by Fred
To create a blog is easy. To select the right blogging software isn’t. My shortlist went to wordpress and blogger. Blogger (blogspot) is owned by Google. WordPress comes as both a service at www.wordpress.com and as a open source blog software kit on www.wordpress.org. After fiddling with both I choose wordpress.com because:
- WordPress supports “pages” wich means you can create a website as part of you’re blog.
- Blogger has https authentication and allthough that is more secure, it means I cannot manage my blog from certain places because all they block all https traffic.
- WordPress doesn’t come with the annoing bar on the top of the blog like Blogger.
- I’m using WordPress.com right now, but I might “upgrade” to wordpress.org and install it on my own hosting account. WordPress.com gives the possibility to export everything and WordPress.com is based on WordPress.org, so the transition should go well. Blogger doesn’t support all this.
- WordPress is Open Source.
- WordPress has a great community.
- What I miss in WordPress and what Blogger has is blog-from-mail support and slideshow’s in the sidebar.
