When it comes to blogging, beginners should choose suitable blogging platform for them. Bloggers and WordPress are mostly used free blog platforms.
No doubt, professional bloggers use WordPress because of its flexibility and good support. WordPress has very big community around, and there’s lot of developers developing for WordPress. You would find thousands of plugins and customizable themes for WordPress.
But are these the only reason one should go for WordPress, and not blogger ?
WordPress is handy, simple and easy to use CMS, which can be molded into any shape and size for different businesses.
Like, WordPress is just a blogging platform basically, but there are a lot of modules and theme integration for wordpress, which can turn this blogging platform into a business site, a landing page, a feed of your social updates, your portfolio or anything you want.
You can do these things with Blogger too, but it needs almost double work and a lot of time. Google’s Blogger is good for blogging purpose only, you can’t make it multipurpose until you work hard with it.
Also, blogger is very much limited, you can edit robots file, you can’t upload custom file, FTP and more. You will find templates for blogger somewhat non-professional.
With wordpress, there are no limitations. You can customize everything of your own, its hell easy. Among other blogging platforms, like Tumblr, TypePad, Live Journal and Bloggers, WordPress is the smartest one and thus, widely used.
WordPress.com for Beginners
If you are beginning with WordPress, you should register a blog firstly on WordPress.com and get familiar with the things. You can easily manage all of your content from a single page dashboard that wordpress provides.
While you can upload custom plugins on self-hosted blog, you can’t do this on WordPress.com hosted blog, because its free. But even then, there are lots of features in WordPress.com hosted blogs. Your primary focus, that is creating content can be done easily with WordPress.com hosted blog. The main part of WordPress hosted blogs is, they are free, but you have to settle with a sub-domain.
Also, you will find the integration of Jetpack plugin, which is a multipurpose module for wordpress including Tracking and Stats. With this, you can track your blog’s popularity. It also helps in getting rid of spam.
Self-Hosted WordPress Blogs
Self-Hosted WordPress Blog is the best you can have. This is an extend to wordpress hosted blogs, where you can upload wordpress CMS right on your server, and you can also use the plugins and themes you like from the WordPress Extends Repository.
You can install these plugins right from your dashboard too, which is pretty time-saving and quick. Self-Hosted WordPress blogs are best for making money, because there are no bounding as on wordpress.com hosted blogs. You can place sponsored ads anywhere on a self hosted wordpress blog.
A large number of bloggers are using WordPress, including TechCrunch, CNN, TED, Smashing Magazine etc. So, you can absolutely rely on WordPress.
You also get a support forum where you can ask your problems and get them resolved.
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Hey thanks for sharing your thoughts. Earlier i was using blogger blogspot but now i will surely use wordpress platform.
You should use Wordpress if you are going to blog professionally.
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