Stay with wordpress or move to blogger?
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December 13th, 2008
With wordpress, I’m very limited widgetwise. I can’t add external widgets for free, and there’s no adsense support. With blogger, it looks very amateurish, but it’s supports more widgets and adsense. Should I stay with wordpress or move to blogger?
I tried importing a wordpress blog to blogger, but it wont work. Any tips on how to do this?
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Why not use the server install version of wordpress? You can rent server space dirt cheap, and most hosts will auto-install WP. Then you can use all the plugins at http://wordpress.org (not .com)
What do you mean by “dirt cheap”?
He means as cheap as dirt ;)
There are a lot of cheap web hosts out there, some of which can be found in richardhenry’s response to this question.
Wordpress is a lot more poweful and extensible as blogger, provided you don’t mind getting into a small, uncomplex amount of setup and financial investment.
What I did? Got hosting with bluehost.com for £55 per year, which gives me unlimited web domains and bandwidth. That means I can host many websites on the same server package, which means I can resell space to friends and clients and essentially have access to an unlimited space web server for free. Neato.
Go for it!
I ♥ Blogger. I’ve not had any problems and have been keeping blogs on there for over 3 years.
How public is your page? If you’re actively promoting and using your page, and want to build a following, I would stay on wordpress. If it’s entirely personal, I would try blogger. I have two food blogs, on blogger, as well as a personal page. I find blogger really easy to use.
@alfreda: I get like 80 ish views per day. Its been rising steadily. thats what she said, sorry, couldn’t help myself
I have used both, and the install version of wordpress is by far the most flexible one.
I highly recommend hosting your blog on a server yourself as benseven elaborates. Not only do you get full control over your files, it is easy to back up your blog, easy to have full control over the Wordpress theme and plugins, etc.
Get a host with cPanel (you’ll need a PHP/MySQL server setup for Wordpress), and it should have all the visual tools you need to get going, a file manager, an app called PhpMyAdmin that lets you navigate your database visually, etc. It may seem intimidating but trust me it’s really not, just go slowly and read the prompts before clicking OK so that you don’t delete anything critical. But as long as you back things up before you muck around, you can always restore to the backup and things are fine!
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