5 Reasons Why WordPress is Better Than Blogger

I’ve been on WordPress for a few months now and I have to say I’m pretty happy I made the change. I know many of my blogger friends are still quite happy on Blogger, and I can totally understand that. After playing with it for a few months, I will say that for me, WordPress is better than blogger. Here’s why.

1. Customize to your heart’s content. WordPress provides access to thousands of pre-built plugins and widgets, giving you a greater range of functionality. To be far, you can get a lot of plugins and widgets for Blogger, too. However, I found that they were much harder to find, and rarely could you contact the creator with questions or comments. When I’ve tried widgets for WordPress that didn’t work as they should. I have posted a comment on the WordPress review site and almost instantly received a response from the programmer. There is pretty much nothing that isn’t possible with WordPress.
2. Built-in options to easily link to existing posts, without having to remember what post you are trying to link to. This has been one of my favorite features. So many times when I’m writing a post I will refer to an older post. I know I posted it, and sometimes a reader may have read it and remember it. However, when I reference an older post using WordPress I can find and link to that older post in a few keystrokes, without opening a second tab and searching through old posts. It’s just that easy.
3. Access to hundreds (if not thousands) of available free templates at the touch of a button. Try them on easily and activate if you like it, delete it if you don’t. One thing I hated with Blogger was that every time you wanted to try on a template, you lost all the edits to your old template. This is not an issue with WordPress. You can try on and install multiple themes and play with them until you find the one that fits you best. If you want to change again later, no problem, and no losing your old edits. Again, I know that there are free templates out there for Blogger (beyond the basic ones provided), but finding them is often difficult, and installing them even more so.
4. Ability to promote your product or service (if you are self-hosted) without worry of getting “dinged” by your free host. This is probably the number 1 reason why most bloggers eventually switch to WordPress. If you decide to write a book, or create some other custom product, and promote it, that would be against the Blogger TOS. However, when you self-host your WordPress blog, you have the freedom to promote what you want, where you want, without the risk of having your blog shut down.
5. Easy access to customer support. If you’ve ever had a question about your blogger account, you know that you are pretty much on your own. You can dig through Google/ Blogger’s out-dated user guides, and search Google till the cows come home and you’ll be lucky if you find the answer. As far as emailing or calling someone to get a question answered, nope not gonna happen. However, with WordPress, not only is there actually active support available, due to the huge wealth of info available on the various programmer websites, you can usually find the answer with a simple search.

Overall, I’ve been really happy I made the switch. Learning WordPress was quite easy. I’ve found a plugin for everything I’ve had any desire to do on my blog, and more. I’ve been able to do things with my blog that I had no idea were possible when I was on Blogger. My traffic has increased a great deal, due to the changes that have been made. No matter what platform, a blog is a constant work in progress, and the content is the most important factor. However, WordPress provides more ways to make your content not only more accessible but simply better.