Blogger Vs Wordpress

Blog is the hottest web 2.0 currently for it's simplicity and capabilities to implement critical features easily. It is good source of knowledge and information. That’s why every organization has its own separate blog integrated with it's main webpage.

Many of my readers asked me which blogging platform is the best? Is Wordpress better than Blogger?? etc. So in this post I will closely look each and every feature of blogger and wordpress. I will compare their features and finally I will give my opinion, which one we should use.

Blogger.com:

Background: On August 23, 1999, Blogger was launched by Pyra Labs. In February 2003, Pyra Labs was acquired by Google under undisclosed terms. In 2004, Google purchased Picasa; it integrated Picasa and its photo sharing utility Hello into Blogger, allowing users to post photos to their blogs. On May 9, 2004, Blogger introduced a major redesign, adding features such as web standards-compliant templates, individual archive pages for posts, comments, and posting by email. On August 14, 2006, Blogger launched its latest version in beta, code named "Invader", alongside the gold release. This migrated users to Google servers and included some new features. In December 2006, this new version of Blogger was taken out of beta. By May 2007, Blogger had completely moved over to Google operated servers. In October 2008, Turkey blocked access to Blogger. Blogger was ranked 16 on the list of top 50 domains in terms of number of unique visitors in 2007.

WordPress.org:

Background: WordPress is an open source blog publishing application. WordPress is the official successor of b2\cafelog, developed by Michel Valdrighi. The name WordPress was suggested by Christine Selleck, a friend of lead developer Matt Mullenweg. WordPress first appeared in 2003 as a joint effort between Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little to create a fork of b2. In 2004 the licensing terms for the competing Movable Type package were changed by Six Apart, and many of its users migrated to WordPress – causing a marked and continuing growth in WordPress's popularity. In 2007 WordPress won a Packt Open Source CMS Award.

Comparison of blogger and wordpress:

Features	Blogger	Wordpress
Upload video	YES	NO (Must be hosted by 3rd party)
Upload Audio	NO	NO (Must be hosted by 3rd party)
Password protect your blog	YES	Requires an upgrade to share the password with more than 35 people.
Complete integration with Feedburner	YES	NO
Customize layouts and design	YES	Requires a $15 per year per blog upgrade to customize CSS
Add JavaScript	YES	NO
Customize HTML	YES	NO
Spam fighting service	NO	YES
Monetize your blog	YES	Requires “VIP” blog upgrade for $500 per month + $600 setup fee
Choose to display ads or not	YES	NO (Requires $30 per month)
Add affiliate links	YES	NO
Add Money Making Widget	YES	NO
Professional support from real people	NO	YES
A self service knowledge base	YES	YES

Conclusion: So, According to the above mentioned table, Blogger is more flexible in comparison to Wordpress. I use blogger. But in some cases wordpress is more useful. Also, wordpress has more number of users than blogger and has a huge community of bloggers.

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