WordPress vs. Blogger

August 25, 2007 in wordpress
Tags: blog, blogger, cms, comparison

The last three months I was testing out WordPress, a service similar to Blogger. I really like the WordPress-CMS and I love how the guys at WordPress come up with new and sometimes even usefull things every two weeks. Having a blog on WordPress means having a full featured website with dynamic and static pages that works very well with search engines like Google. If you write an article in WordPress.com, it is for sure available on Google-searches just half an hour later if not even faster. WordPress, however, lacks of some features (and vice versa) I would like to mention here in comparison to Blogger.

Customization of layout

• Blogger: for free, endless possibilities.
• WordPress: $10/year, only CSS.

Domain mapping

• Blogger: for free.
• WordPress: $10/year.

Statistics

• Blogger: no.
• WordPress: included.

Advertisements

• Blogger: AdSense included, all others possible.
• WordPress: not allowed.

Storage quota

• Blogger: 1024MB. Upgrades available ($20 for 6GB, $75 for 25GB, $250 for 100GB and $500 for 250GB per year).
• WordPress: 50MB. Upgrades available ($20 for 1GB, $50 for 5GB and $90 for 10GB per year).

Importing/Exporting

• Blogger: No importing. No exporting.
• WordPress: Importing available (from Blogger, Live Journal, Movable Type and TypePad and from other WordPress blogs). Exporting possible into the WordPress XML-format.

Conclusion

I can recommend both services. Although Blogger lacks some features, WordPress has included, it is still my primary choice. There is so much more “for free” here at Blogger that makes Blogger more interesting for the novice as well as for the advanced user.

Testing out both systems for 6 months makes me return to Blogger. It is easier to use, faster and more reliable than WordPress.