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 Blogger vs. WordPress: Which Should You Use to Blog?

With the increasing competition in the blogging market, you may be wondering how to build a website to keep up with the competition. In this article, we will look at Blogger vs WordPress as two of the best options out there for running a blog.

When starting a blog, you should consider the benefits of using a publishing platform like Blogger versus WordPress, which is a content management system.

With a publishing platform like Blogger, you can quickly start a blog by creating an account, choosing a template, and adding content. Since Blogger takes care of all the technical aspects of running your blog, you can focus on publishing your content and understanding what topics and post types are popular with your readers.

This allows you to establish yourself as a thought leader in your specific field and grow your readership without paying for features and services that you won't benefit from.

With an open source content management system like WordPress, you can download and install the software and pay a small monthly fee to have it hosted by a third party provider like Bluehost. You are also responsible for the blog's security, performance, and maintenance.

While this greater degree of autonomy requires more time, effort, and budget, it also gives you more freedom. You can choose your hosting plan, install any themes and plugins you want, and modify the source code as needed.

Now that we've briefly outlined the differences between Blogger and the self-hosted version of WordPress, let's compare their flexibility in more depth.

Blogger and WordPress flexibility

When starting a blog, you need a platform that is easy to use and flexible. With the flexibility of the platform, it must be controlled. How much control do you have over the look of your blog? what about work

With these two questions in mind, let's compare the flexibility of Blogger and WordPress.

Blogger flexibility

With Blogger, you can publish multimedia content such as blog posts or GIFs to attract readers and grow your brand without worrying about website maintenance or paying for anything other than a custom domain. In exchange for this ease of use and low cost, you lose almost complete control over your site.

The great thing about Blogger is that you don't own your site, so if you are found to be in violation of the Blogger Community Guidelines, your site can be suspended at any time. You also have some control over your website's appearance and functionality.

For example, your blog's default homepage will be a feed of posts in reverse chronological order—you can't change the layout or even the order of your content. You also can't create custom post types or pages, such as portfolio pages.

It is important to note that you can edit your site's HTML and add custom CSS using the built-in modules described below. It's a bit like the CSS modules in the WordPress dashboard.

WordPress flexibility

For more control over your blog's design and functionality, you can create and manage a self-hosted WordPress blog.

With a content management system, you can choose the colors, fonts, and design for your blog. You can create, edit, schedule, update and manage your content. You can create custom post types.

You can add social media buttons, forms, affiliate links, and other features using plugins. You can also add custom CSS to your WordPress dashboard or edit your site's source code to perform more advanced tasks such as creating static navigation menus, setting error logs, or changing the style of each category page. Below are the built-in CSS modules where you can add code to customize your page.

Comparison of Blogger and WordPress plugins

All website builder platforms offer valuable built-in features that make them an attractive alternative to building a website from scratch. However, there is no single website building platform that offers enough built-in features to meet every website owner's needs. This is why most platforms offer third party extensions for download or purchase.

Let's compare Blogger and WordPress plugins below.

Blogger plugin

Blogger has many third-party tools that you can install by adding code in your site's HTML or directly in the body of your post or page. For example, Elfsight offers over 50 widgets for embedding Instagram posts, Google comments, WhatsApp buttons, and more on your Blogger site. However, Blogger warns in its documentation that authors who add third-party widgets or code do so at their own risk.

Instead, Blogger recommends "tools" made by Google and other developers that you can add to your site to do things like add AdSense ads, archive your posts, add search functionality to your site, and more.

Note that there are only 26 widgets, some of which are added by default.

This means that Blogger is easy to learn and use, but it is limited in functionality. This is especially true compared to WordPress, which offers many built-in features and hundreds of thousands of extensions.

WordPress plugins

WordPress has more third party plugins than any other platform. It has over 60,000 free plugins in the official plugin library and thousands of other premium options on third-party marketplaces. CodeCanyon, for example, has more than 5,100 plugins for sale.

This means that there is a WordPress plugin for almost anything you want to do. Want to add email marketing, marketing automation, live chat, forms, and more to your website? Do you want to increase your posts and social following? Want to add an email registration form to your website? You can do this and more with WordPress plugins.

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With a WordPress plugin just that you will have endless customization options, it also means that you will have more to learn and manage than Blogger.

Comparison of Blogger and WordPress templates

In addition to third-party plugins, most website builder platforms come with pre-designed templates. Not having to create your own website from scratch is a huge plus - not only does it speed up the setup process, but it also allows any user to create a beautiful website without relying on a designer or developer.

Here we compare and customize Blogger and WordPress template options.

Blogger form

Blogger offers 12 template designs, some of which have different color schemes. These are easy to install and customize.

With the built-in editor, you can customize the colors, text, background of your posts, pages, navigation, and sidebar

Advanced users with coding knowledge can also add custom CSS to further design their templates.

It is important to understand that Blogger and any third-party sites that include Blogger templates only offer individual templates, not themes or groups of templates. If you are creating a multi-page blog in Blogger, you must use the same template for all pages.

The limited selection of templates and customization options makes Blogger design quick and easy, but it can also be frustrating. To create a blog that reflects your unique brand identity, you need a platform with a larger selection of customizable templates.

WordPress templates

While you can find WordPress templates on third-party sites, WordPress is famous for its themes. A WordPress template is a collection of template files and style sheets that change the way your website looks. So, while templates define the layout of individual pages, themes control the design of the entire site.

In the official WordPress theme library, there are over 10,000 free themes alone. Third-party marketplaces like Themeforest Marketplace offer thousands of free and paid programs. It is estimated that there are more than 30,000 WordPress themes in total.

Installing and customizing WordPress themes is easy, but it takes more time than installing and customizing Blogger templates. This is because most WordPress themes are highly customizable.

If you are using the built-in WordPress parameter, it is very similar to the Blogger parameter. You can change colors, menus, widgets, and add custom CSS. But if you want more customization options in your theme and design elements, you can use page builder plugins.

Many premium themes already come with built-in page builders, so you don't need to install anything else. For example, the Divi theme comes with its own homepage builder and over 800 pre-made designs (most of which are available in site packages). Here's what happens when a user edits a pre-populated layout from a restaurant website package.