Thread: Blogger v. Wordpress

For those of you who actively blog, which do you prefer and why? Any features that you prefer in one over the other? Thanks.

I've never used blogger, but Word Press is pretty awesome.

blogger sucks - it's a closed system - training wheels for bloggers. can you even get your own domain name?

wordpress is better but it should be a lot better. one problem is that you have to update it all the time. hackers are pretty into it and, once they crack the current version, your blog will be hacked unless up update immediately. what happens when your blog gets hacked? with mine, they put invisible porn-related words everywhere which decimated my Google ranking. after one year, i still only get 1/5 the google traffic i used to.

w/ wordpress, there is an active developer community pounding out all sorts of interesting add-ons.

- chuck

What are you planning to use it for? As chuck said, Blogger is closed while wordpress is open.

I use wordpress and I'm liking it

wordpress > blogger

Originally Posted by carendt242

blogger sucks - it's a closed system - training wheels for bloggers. can you even get your own domain name?

wordpress is better but it should be a lot better. one problem is that you have to update it all the time. hackers are pretty into it and, once they crack the current version, your blog will be hacked unless up update immediately. what happens when your blog gets hacked? with mine, they put invisible porn-related words everywhere which decimated my Google ranking. after one year, i still only get 1/5 the google traffic i used to.

w/ wordpress, there is an active developer community pounding out all sorts of interesting add-ons.

- chuck

Do you have a link to your blog?

Originally Posted by koolmikeski

Do you have a link to your blog?

ChuckEats blog

- chuck

I use wordpress - it's very user friendly and has all you need to launch a top rated blog - just add content worth reading.

Originally Posted by carendt242

blogger sucks - it's a closed system - training wheels for bloggers. can you even get your own domain name?

wordpress is better but it should be a lot better. one problem is that you have to update it all the time. hackers are pretty into it and, once they crack the current version, your blog will be hacked unless up update immediately. what happens when your blog gets hacked? with mine, they put invisible porn-related words everywhere which decimated my Google ranking. after one year, i still only get 1/5 the google traffic i used to.

w/ wordpress, there is an active developer community pounding out all sorts of interesting add-ons.

- chuck

Exactly the kind of information I was looking for, thanks very much Chuck! I really just plan on using one for my various projects and one for personal reflection, so nothing too fancy.

I think I'm going to nominate Chuck as L4P's most generally knowledgeable member.