Comments on: Better Blogging – Wordpress vs. Blogger

By: Neufeld Computer Services | Blogger vs Wordpress Yet Again

Neufeld Computer Services | Blogger vs Wordpress Yet Again — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:52:47 +0000

[...] done to death on the internet. Michael Aulia (of Craving Tech) pontificates on the subject on Nuffnang Australia, and does so rather well, without excess heat and with lots of good [...]

By: Steve Lign

Steve Lign — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 08:24:19 +0000

I needed this, thank you for sharing this information Mike.

By: Arnold aka Mr.Gadget

Arnold aka Mr.Gadget — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:35:06 +0000

Great article Mike! :)

By: Mat Packer

Mat Packer — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:48:38 +0000

I had a blogger blog for a month before I realised I just couldn’t tinker with it as much as I wanted, I hastily bought a domain hosting account and installed WordPress and haven’t looked back.

I’ve briefly played with SquareSpace but didn’t find it as intuitive as I had hoped. It seems to be heavily designed for designers, and not for coders….but anyway, I guess that’s their market.

WordPress is where it’s at!

By: Rodney Olsen

Rodney Olsen — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:51:53 +0000

Kate, I spent four years on blogger and then around two years back made the switch. Best thing I’ve done for my blog. As I was already using my own domain it didn’t disrupt my readers.

The swap wasn’t much of a drama. It’s fairly easy to import everything into WordPress. It was a little trickier getting my photos and all my Haloscan comments across but with the help of some wonderful people online, I got everything onto WordPress.

Don’t let the length of time at Blogger stop you from discovering how good blogging can be.

By: Michael Aulia

Michael Aulia — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:44:55 +0000

Nice to see a few of my readers here for some discussions :D

@Nihar: Yes, you are right on that one. They’ll then find out whether they should continue on blogging or not

@Hesham: Haha. I’ll never go back to Blogger..ever!

@Karl: Thanks Karl. You need to persuare more Blogger’s bloggers to move too ;)

@Ileane: I’d be happy to help out. I’ll contact you later as it’ll be easier than doing it here

@Robert: Great comparisons there, but I thought WordPress.com doesn’t allow plugins to be installed except for the default ones.

@Zainil: All the best and keep on blogging!

@Kate: Sometimes you don’t know that you need one until you try and see it yourself. We all could live without the internet 10 years ago. Why so different now? :)

@DiTesco: Good recommendation. Don’t make the same mistakes that I did (using my own name as the blog’s domain)

By: DiTesco

DiTesco — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 13:26:48 +0000

Totally agree. 80% of my blogs are now self-hosted with the exception of my main one which I am insisting on Blogger to prove a point. Anyway, if I had the chance to rewind, I would have immediately used self-hosted. Anyway, for blogspot users, one recommendation at the very least is to have your own domain. Google allows you to do that and if you have to migrate to self-hosted, things will be less painful. Great comparison between platforms…

By: Kate

Kate — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 12:43:11 +0000

I’ve considered moving to wordpress before, it seems to be the overwhelming favourite amongst the blogging community. However, I’ve been on blogger for years, probably 5-10 yrs or so at various sites! So I’m hesitant to switch. I think if I find I get to the point where I feel I need functionality blogger doesn’t provide, that’s when I’d move.

By: Zainil Dempsey

Zainil Dempsey — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:51:38 +0000

Hi Michael,

Thanks for the posting, useful indeed. I will certainly re-evaluate my status in a month or so. I have just started blogging.

Cheers

By: Robert Bravery

Robert Bravery — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 11:12:22 +0000

Nice post. You go into a lot of Depth. I like the way you differentiate between a self-hosted Wordpress, as opposed to the public hosted Wordpress at Wordpress.com.
I wrote a post also comparing the Two, but from a different angle. Mainly listing the pro’s and cons of Wordpress vs Blogger. Te public Wordpress.com. Because I thought it best to compare apples with apples.
You can read it here. http://www.integralwebsolutions.co.za/Blog/EntryId/135/Which-is-better-Blogger-com-vs-Wordpress-com.aspx Please let me know what you think