Are you confused with which blogging platform to choose to start your blogging career? The major blogging hosting platforms are no doubt Blogger and WordPress. Now to judge which one is better I have written a detailed comparison chart below that will be of great help in making a smart decision.
Note:- I am not an employee of either Blogger or WordPress. The below chart is solely my personal research.
WordPress VS Blogger Comparison Chart 2010. © My Blogger Tricks
FEATURES | BLOGGER | WORDPRESS | WHO WON? |
| Template Customization | Offers Free Layout/Style Sheet Customization | No style sheet customization. Payment required | Blogger |
| Tutorials/Help | Innumerable Tutorials on Blogger Tricks | Hardly some | Blogger |
| Number of un-official Themes | Innumerable Designers Creating Free Templates each day | Few Designers Involved in offering free templates | Blogger |
| Coding Used | Uses user friendly scripting and coding i.e HTML, XML, CSS | Uses advance scripting like php that few can understand | Blogger |
| Dashboard Interface | Highly user friendly. Easy to navigate. | Complicated Interface with hectic navigation | Blogger |
| Default Template Collection | Limited Collection Of Default templates mostly un-professional | Over 70+ high quality Templates | WordPress |
| Template/Theme Replacement | Default Template can be replaced by a more free professional template | No template change allowed | Blogger |
| Widgets | Innumerable Official and Un official Widgets available | Limited Official widgets available. Rarely few un- official gadgets available. | Blogger |
| Comments | No commenting editing. Moderation allowed. No Spam protection. No user friendly comment form | Comments can be edited and moderated. Spam protection available. User friendly comment form | WordPress |
| SEO, Optimization | Though Owned by Google, no favoritism. Manual optimization is required | Owned by a private party. Meta Tags Plugins used. Easy To optimize | Both |
| Blog Privacy | You can limit access to your blog to 100 Authors and 100 readers. All must be Google account holders. | You can limit access to your blog to 35 Wordpress account holders. Posts can be password protected or Private. | Blogger |
| Comment restriction | You can restrict comments to Google account holders, Open ID users or Any one (includes Anonymous) | Comments can not be restricted. Anyone can comment | Blogger |
| Blog Import | Only from one BlogSpot blog to another | A Blog can be imported from another WordPress blog or from Blogger, Yahoo! 360, LiveJournal and Movable Type and TypePad | WordPress |
| Posts and Comment Notification | Authors and subscribers can be notified of latest posts and comments via Email | Same here | Both |
| Comment Verification | Asks users to verify if they are humans using a 4-6 digit code | Does not asks for any verification. More spam effected | Blogger |
| Video Storage Limit | Unlimited with Google Video and an upload limit of 16GB | Just 3GB. More space on upgrade. | Blogger |
| Image storage limit | 1 Gigabyte With Picasa Web Albums | 3 Gigabytes. More space can be gained through upgrade. | WordPress |
| File type Storage | Only allows image uploading | Allows upload of files like .ppt, pdf .doc and .odt files. More file types can be uploaded on upgrading. | WordPress |
| Blog Stats | Does not have any default stats system. But allows third party tracking scripts. | Has a default visitor stats system that shows statistics for two days only and does not provide detailed stats reports. Does not allow third party tracking scripts. | Blogger |
| Blog co-partners | 100 Google account holders can be added as Administrators or Authors | 35 WordPress account holders can be added as Administrators, Editors, Authors or Contributors. | Blogger |
| Advertisements | Displays no advertisement of its own on your blog. | Displays discreet AdSense advertisements on your blog for small percentage of the page views | Blogger |
| Posts By Email | Has a Mail-to-Blogger feature which turns any email account into a blog-posting application | Posts can be published using emails | Both |
| Post Feed On Mobile Phones | Supported | Not Supported | Blogger |
Conclusion
When choosing a blogging service three things are most important than anything else which are,
- Template Editing
- Huge Image Storage Capacity
- Huge Video Storage Capacity
Believe it or not Blogger has all these three features and is undoubtedly a blessing to millions of teenagers and people from other classes who can’t afford to pay online. The Template editing feature of Blogger is one of its best feature. Within a year of blogging a guy like me who didn’t even know what CSS, HTML, XML meant, is now playing with codes day and night. Blogger made my life meaningful and interesting and will surely be a blessing to you too. Blogger is surely the best free Blogging Service available in Blogosphere.
Which one do you think is the best?
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30 comments:
Mohammad that was really a deep research from your side. I am now fully convinced which way to choose. I thought wordpress was more flexible in terms of features but I found it disappointing that they ask for money for simple features like CSS editing.
I would agree the free CSS editing option in blogger is the best part of its success.
Thumbs up to Blogger!
well done mybloggertricks.i have been using blogger since 2 years.at first i made it for fun but now i became professional educating many internet users about software tips/downloads.hats off to blogger.
Mohd this is a great post ,You have really done quite a hard work I must say )) and i like the way you have explained with colorful table,simple yet very informative.Looking Fwd to many more post ....you are doing simply great .
All the best
Manisha
I must really appreciate the amount of effort and intellect you put into that post. Undoubtably I do echo your opinion that Blogger is the BEST! I must however point out an error on your part. You have missed out on the fact that there is a provision called mail2blogger by which you can email all your blog posts. In addition you may choose to save them as drafts or publish them too! Nice blog. I just became an email subscriber :)
Hahaha, what a question! Sure, Blogger is the best. And I play with codes too ;)
Oh I am so glad you did this post MOHD. I tried Word press and got no where, it was so confusing and I couldn't find any help what so ever. So now I don't feel like a total idiot because it wasn't all me.
@Macawo @ Jayaraj @Manihsa @Rahul @Lucky Flaush
I thank you all for your encouragement and motivation. I am glad you all voted for Blogger :>
@Spam Emails
Thanks for pointing towards mail2blogger. I will correct that part immediately. Your subscription is an honor :)
@MArg
Hi marg,
I can understand what technical problems you might have been while using Wordpress. Wordpress is loosing the play day by day.
If its wordpress.com then blogger is better. :)
It can be seen that you put quite some effort into this post and it gives a lot of useful information. However there is some confusion of terminology and I hope you let me point it out, so it becomes clearer.
You are comparing blogging services, not platforms. From the title and the beginning of the article it seems you compare the platforms, but you do not. You are not comparing wordpress and blogger, you are comparing wordpress.com and blogspot.com blogging and hosting services, not the software.
If you have a self-hosted blog with wordpress you have as much storage as the hosting services provides, many widgets and plugins (great commenting systems!), and a lot of customization options of templates.
@Benjamin
I would agree with you. I am indeed comparing the services provided by these two giant blogging platforms. No doubt wordpress has advance features for those who have hosted blogs with wordpress. But the point is friend the things that wordpress is providing on upgrade or purchase, Blogger is offering it for free. Imagine if Blogger offers premier facilities...Its service would turn out to be even more impressive!
No matter whether it is hosting or the service, the table above is enough capable to en-light both factors.
As I see it, the advantage of Blogspot
is that it could be monetized. Not Wordpress.
Blogger is still the best for those who like to make their own customizing without any pay.Beside posting,we can learn how to designing our own blog instead..what a wonderful platform,haha..
This comparison chart is really a great job from the author..this really help expecially for those who still confuce which one to choose for blogging..thanks Mohammad.
@Poch
Wordpress can be monetized too but not as easily as Blogger.
@Fazrul arhan
Agreed 100% :>
lol..i totaly agree about this post, myself trying both blogger and wp. and wp isnt simple at all for newbie. o.O thats the fact
I use blogger. It is very economical and versatile. It is owned by Top 1 website, Google. My only expense is my domain name which is 500 pesos a year. Blogger won. I gonna try wordpress for my next blog.
@smart Club
A truth indeed!
@marvin
Mercy be upon your second blog :p
i'm using WordPress Blog
I don't know blogger because of the commenting system and the fact that most of the blogs using it look the same and are not very well laid out.
I think you can use Disqus or Intense debate with Blogger.
@beywaynet
The only thing where I would agree with most Wordpress users is the Wordpress's Great Comment System. Blogger will need to upgrade its Comment form.
El mejor es Blogger sin duda.
Un saludo
I just started my own blog and am starting to learn more css and html each day. I thought you're a computer science student or something. Never would imagine that you've learned everything that you know just by doing exactly what I'm doing now. I'm very impressed by how much you've accomplished with this site and it motivates me more to learn as much as I can so that some day I will hopefully become as knowledgeable as yourself.
Good work.
@Markenstein
Thanks for your kind remarks dear! Well you have already become a knowledgeable and mature blogger for you chose Blogger.com to start your first brilliant experience. I am sure you will come out with innovative articles to further beautify the ever expanding BlogoSphere.
To increase your skills in HTML and CSS I will recommend http://www.w3schools.com/
Best of Luck! :>
Hi, love your work. You know its a blogger blog so you can really not expect wordpress to win.
@John
I have remained quite unbiased throughout the table. I support Blogger due to reasons explained. If you can disprove any reason mentioned above then I will be more than happy to correct the table :> There is no doubt in the fact that Blogger is indeed far superior than free Wordpress!
I was just sayin that many pro bloggers do prefer wordpress. You do agree to that, right. My cousion who is a well established blogger shifted to wordpress for some reasons, may be because he uses the selfhosting features or somethin. I personally find blogger much easier and I think it has a lot of nice features. Infact I find wordpress a bit overwealming and prefer blogger.
I m agree from above post blogger is much easy or better than Wordpresss
blogger rules!
wordpress sux..
Blogger is the best as it is free and easy to use.
you are just talking about the wordpress.com Automattic is not as big a company like Google and it runs on donations and web host affiliate payments. So you can't wish that they provide you with free hosting like blogger does.That is the only pro of Blogger when compared to Wordpress. Wordpress is a blogging software which is 100% free and Open Source.It is thoroughly updated by 1000s of passionate open source developers and the automattic employees. They release updates every week or so. You get all the code in your hands. You can install it on your webserver and make a professional blog. Blogger is just for newbies who aren't much familiar with Geek stuff.
Templates can be customized to a great extent when compared to blogger. Large collection of free themes are available for Wordpress and many premium ones too.Many more tutorials are there on wordpress.90% of the unofficial blogger themes are ports from Wordpress templates.Coding is advanced and poweful.Akismet provides powerful way of dealing with spam comments.
You are just talking in favour of Blogger, because you write some tutorials on blogger and most of your readers and noobs who don't really know the power of Wordpress. Wordpress is Open Source and developed by 1000s of passionate engineers and developers across the globe and is provided for free. Even you can setup a site like Blogger.com(which provides free blogging solution to any number of users. the only thing is that you would need a good hosting solution) by using the Wordpress MU, the multiversion of Wordpress which is absolutely free.
@Wordpress fan
All your points are valid and agreed upon with no doubts but the theme of the post is that everything can be highly useful and more equipped if it is not free! Does free wordpress has all those features that are badly needed by bloggers? Of course not! Then whats the use of it?
I never disagreed with the amazing features offered by the Pro Wordpress! No doubt the upgraded wordpress is the best blogging platform one can get.
Your feedback is always appreciated. I will try to reply to your queries as soon as time allows.
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Regards,
Mohammad