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Forget Blogger and other blogging platform. The blogging world now belongs to WordPress and it is easy to see why.

With other blog solutions, you don’t owe the site. They reserve the right to kick you out at any time without warning, which means all your effort of creating posts, customizing and related work will go down the drain - just like that!

You have no control nor can you really brand it the way you want.

With WordPress, things are different. You are able to host it under your own domain. You control your blog site in any way you deem fit. You have the power to brand it the way you want it.

WordPress is an incredibly powerful platform, that not only allows you to create great looking blogs but also websites as well(yes it can be done contrary to popular belief)!

It requires minimal programming and designing. A lot of the work is already cut out for you. There are also loads of themes available which you can just select and customize it to your liking.

In addition, Wordpress has aggregator support for RSS configurations, allows for customization of the sidebar, RSS feeds, forms, styling and more.

The WordPress package you get initially may be a bit bare, but with the tonnes of plugins available out there, the functionality and the stuffs you can do literally explode. Be it Search Engine Optimization (SEO), aesthetics, administrative, spam fighting, styles, layouts and other miscellaneous features, there are many useful plugins to take care of them.

The best thing about WordPress is that it is open source, which means that you can use it for FREE. The vast majority of the themes and plugins available from the WordPress’s database are also FREE as well!

If I were to use other site builders, I probably have to pay for a whole lot of them!

Sounds great? Yep, WordPress is fantastic in my view!

Flawless? Definitely not.

There still exist bugs, which can be really irritating to fix. Certain plugins may not be compatible with other plugins, themes or the WordPress version itself.

For instance, I just upgraded my WordPress version to 2.1 from 2.0.5, and I discovered that some plugins I’ve used previously are no longer functional. Certain weird things such as disappearing pages, plugins that automatically disabled themselves started happening. Irritating but nothing that will kill.

I guess I’ve to live with such minor faults, and with WordPress always in constant development, we can only expect better and more functional versions in future. Lets not take anything away from a great platform that is WordPress. Do check it out! It comes with my highest recommendations!

I agree with you that Wordpress is a very good blogging platform…but the free version doesn’t allow you to customize the UI page and template which is very much handy in Blogger, that Y i Still prefer blogger.

Hi Nirmal,

I’ve never used the free version before, so I can’t really comment. I think you can customize the template in the free version, yes? There should be an option for you to do that.

You can say that the free version and the Wordpress version hosted on your own server is vastly different, in terms of capabilities.

There is so much things you can do to ‘power’ up Wordpress due to the many plugins available. Customization is a snap as well.

While I much prefer WordPress over Blogger, it looks like you are already very comfortable with what Blogger can offer you. It might be good to stay with them in your case. =)

Cheers,
YongSing (Jag)