Comparison between Blogger & WordPress

Comparison between Blogger & WordPress



Blogger is a blog publishing service that allows multi-user blogs with time-stamped entries. It was developed by Pyra Labs, which was bought by Google in 2003. Generally, the blogs are hosted by Google at a subdomain of blogspot.com. Blogs can also be hosted in the registered custom domain of the blogger (like www.example.com). A user can have up to 100 blogs per account.


WordPress is a free and open-source content management system (CMS). To function, WordPress has to be installed on a web server. It was used by more than 27.5% of the top 10 million websites as of February 2017. It is reportedly the most popular website management or blogging system on Internet that supporting more than 60 millions of website. WordPress was released on 27th of May 2003, by Matt Mulenweg and Mike Little.



Blogger
Differences
WordPress
Owned by Google, it has the right to shut blogger down
Ownership
Owned by User, you are the one who access everything by using WordPress hosting provider
Limited features which allowing to perform only specific tasks
Control
Allowing to modify & extend the features
Limited set of templates
Appearance
Thousands of free & premium themes
Low
Quality of Appearance
High
Hard to move your site from blogger to different platforms
Portability
Can move your site to a new host / change domain name
Google’s robust secure platform will help to secure / creating backups
Security
Responsible for own security & backups
Basic documentation & a user’s forum
Support
Online documentation, community forums, IRC chat rooms offering premium support
Depends on Google
Future
Open Source software, not depending on one company / individual


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