Blogspot Or WordPress?

That’s like asking on a Ferrari forum is Ferraris are good cars. We’re a bit baised here. ??

Then again, there’s a reason I’m here and not somewhere else — WordPress rocks. ??

reason being that?

i second Viper … WORDPRESS; hands down, takes the cake!!!!

i have seen some others out there in the last week from these so called “Christian organizations” and they have a CMS, much like WordPress, but they are charging in the neighborhood of $500-$2500 … WAY TOO MUCH !! and when you compare what they use and the backing that WordPress has, the enormous amount of plugins available and those *extras*, and the amazing community and contributors like Viper …

WORDPRESS wins by a landslide ..

best of all .. it is F-R-E-E-!!

BTW — what type of WordPress are we talking about here? The WordPress you get from this site is nothing like Blogspot. Or were you talking about WordPress.COM?

WordPress.com vs. www.remarpro.com

wordpress as in the one we download and upload to our own domain.

Ah, then Blogspot doesn’t even come close. ??

Perhaps a good question to ask is why did you switch to Blogspot in the first place and why do you want to switch back?

If it ain’t broke don’t fix it.

Blogspot does have it’s points though. If you’re planning on spamming, learning how to kiddie script, promote your kiddie porn, etc, I’d vote for Blogspot.

-dr(Eying a *cough* interesting blog that got spammed to me three days ago that’s still up over there)mike

I have wordpress site on my own host and the free one for another blog I have.

Hands up wordpress.

My blogger blog gave me nothing but problems and it was hacked several times – which was why I finally gave it up.

“what is the disadvantages of using wordpress?

Since I’ve never even looked at BS, and since you’ve used both, why don’t you tell me/us what you think the disadvantages are?

“wordpress as in the one we download and upload to our own domain.”

Now I am confused, I thought BS was like wordpress.com, a hosting service. No?

It is, hence why you can’t even compare BS to WP.org. ??

I just installed WordPress yesterday. I know it’s a bit soon to start complaining but so far I hate it. If I can’t get my broken B2 blog fixed I’m probably going to go back to Blogspot myself. I know you’re supposed to be able to do all this great stuff with WP but how? The Docs haven’t been any help so far.

I don’t want to p__-off anyone or hurt anyone’s feelings. I’m just extremely frustrated; that’s all.

Well what are you trying to do? You’re rather vague.

I don’t even know where to start. There doesn’t seem to be any way to DO anything other than just post. Okay, example: In the comments it doesn’t have seperate spaces to enter the name, email address and URL, like on almost all other blogs and I don’t see any way to fix that.

And how do you add stuff to the sidebar? Like photos, Sitemeter and stuff? I made my own template for my B2 blog. It’s rather minimalist in nature but it’s all mine. I like it. I can work with it and change things when I want to. WordPress looks a whole lot more complicated and it looks like I’ll be stuck with choosing one of the available themes. Yeah, I know, there are hundreds but none of them are mine.

Again, I’m sorry… I know I probably sound really b_tchy (and vague) but I’m really frustrated. They really push this over on the B2 message board so I thought it was going to be like B2 only better but it’s nothing like it and I won’t even be able to import my old B2 posts.

“In the comments it doesn’t have seperate spaces to enter the name, email address and URL, like on almost all other blogs and I don’t see any way to fix that.” If you’re logged in it’s not going to show these things. For someone who isn’t logged in it does.

“And how do you add stuff to the sidebar? Like photos, Sitemeter and stuff?” You get yourself a widgetized theme, and the widgets plugin. There are plenty of themes on the codex that are widgetized.

“Yeah, I know, there are hundreds but none of them are mine.” So you start with a widgetized theme and you customize it yourself using the many docs available.

Blogspot is an awful server, it’s slow as molasses, and pisses visitors off. I’ve got broadband and have to wait for blogspot sites to load *yawn* which means I seldom read blogspot blogs. As an ap, blogger is for amateurs. It doesn’t have nearly the extensibility nor the sheer usability of any of the better blogging software, of which WordPress is one. I also wonder why you’d want to develop a blog to boost someone else’s domain name (blogspot) when you can have your own domain name and monetize for your own self, and using software like wordpress that will give you good Search Engine Position pretty effortlessly. If you want to be labeled in people’s minds as an amateur blogger, then keep doing what you’re doing.

If you really want to have a serious blog, then stop whining and learn how to use wordpress.