Balay ni Bambit has a great comparative analysis of Blogger vs WordPress for those of your who are still at the stage of choosing a back end client for your blogging. She ends up coming down on the side of WordPress (as I think most serious bloggers would – I admit I’m biassed) but points out some of the issues you’ll have if you are making the switch. You might also like to check out her post titled Blogger to WordPress in 13 Not-so-Easy steps if you’re contemplating making the switch.
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Blogger and WordPress Comparison
Just yesterday I made a posted entitled- Choosing a Blog Hosting Service. Well today ProBlogger has found a good in-depth comparison of Blogger and WordPress. A good one to read if you are still contemplating which blog host to choose. Referencing P…
I started with Blogger and I moved from there to TypePad. I have started running a WordPress blog now for my business and so far I am not thrilled with it (aside from the fact that it is a pretty cool piece of software as an option) mainly because, as a fairly green user, it doesn’t give me options like TypePad’s main and extended post windows (so my posts tend to take up too much space on the WordPress blog) or really well integrated WYSIWYG formatting options. I am starting work on a MovableType test with a view to replacing the WordPress blog if I can get MT working properly.
People rave about WordPress and I have seen some really well done sites which use WordPress but do green users like me have much of a hope of running something that looks so cool out the box? Is that an unrealistic expectation?
Blogger, WordPress, TypePad and MovableType
People rave about WordPress and I have seen some really well done sites which use WordPress but do green users like me have much of a hope of running something that looks so cool out the box? Is that an unrealistic expectation?
I’m a movabletype guy. I just started out with it and became adept at tweaking it so there ya go. I actually tried wordpress, but there were a couple of things I didn’t like about it.
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Have you tried pressing the “more” tag which does that for you?
Have you tried the WYSIWYG plugin?
Is there a plugin to convert my blogger posts to wp ?