i am in a dilemma. i guess i'm currently using blogspot but i used wordpress before. anyway. i dont know if i should move back to wordpress is it a good idea? what do you think? what is the disadvantages of using wordpress? i fear i might regret if i use wordpress
Blogspot Or WordPress? (19 posts)
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Annngel
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Alex Mills (Viper007Bond)
Posted 5 years ago #That's like asking on a Ferrari forum is Ferraris are good cars. We're a bit baised here. ;)
Then again, there's a reason I'm here and not somewhere else -- WordPress rocks. :)
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Posted 5 years ago #reason being that?
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DesignPastor
Posted 5 years ago #i second Viper ... WORDPRESS; hands down, takes the cake!!!!
i have seen some others out there in the last week from these so called "Christian organizations" and they have a CMS, much like WordPress, but they are charging in the neighborhood of $500-$2500 ... WAY TOO MUCH !! and when you compare what they use and the backing that WordPress has, the enormous amount of plugins available and those *extras*, and the amazing community and contributors like Viper ...
WORDPRESS wins by a landslide ..
best of all .. it is F-R-E-E-!!
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Posted 5 years ago #BTW -- what type of WordPress are we talking about here? The WordPress you get from this site is nothing like Blogspot. Or were you talking about WordPress.COM?
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Posted 5 years ago #wordpress as in the one we download and upload to our own domain.
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Posted 5 years ago #Ah, then Blogspot doesn't even come close. :)
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Perhaps a good question to ask is why did you switch to Blogspot in the first place and why do you want to switch back?
If it ain't broke don't fix it.
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Blogspot does have it's points though. If you're planning on spamming, learning how to kiddie script, promote your kiddie porn, etc, I'd vote for Blogspot.
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wonderla
Posted 5 years ago #I have wordpress site on my own host and the free one for another blog I have.
Hands up wordpress.
My blogger blog gave me nothing but problems and it was hacked several times - which was why I finally gave it up.
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pizdin_dim
Posted 5 years ago #"what is the disadvantages of using wordpress?
Since I've never even looked at BS, and since you've used both, why don't you tell me/us what you think the disadvantages are?
"wordpress as in the one we download and upload to our own domain."
Now I am confused, I thought BS was like wordpress.com, a hosting service. No?
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Posted 5 years ago #It is, hence why you can't even compare BS to WP.org. :)
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lynn58
Posted 5 years ago #I just installed WordPress yesterday. I know it's a bit soon to start complaining but so far I hate it. If I can't get my broken B2 blog fixed I'm probably going to go back to Blogspot myself. I know you're supposed to be able to do all this great stuff with WP but how? The Docs haven't been any help so far.
I don't want to p__-off anyone or hurt anyone's feelings. I'm just extremely frustrated; that's all.
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Posted 5 years ago #Well what are you trying to do? You're rather vague.
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Posted 5 years ago #I don't even know where to start. There doesn't seem to be any way to DO anything other than just post. Okay, example: In the comments it doesn't have seperate spaces to enter the name, email address and URL, like on almost all other blogs and I don't see any way to fix that.
And how do you add stuff to the sidebar? Like photos, Sitemeter and stuff? I made my own template for my B2 blog. It's rather minimalist in nature but it's all mine. I like it. I can work with it and change things when I want to. WordPress looks a whole lot more complicated and it looks like I'll be stuck with choosing one of the available themes. Yeah, I know, there are hundreds but none of them are mine.
Again, I'm sorry... I know I probably sound really b_tchy (and vague) but I'm really frustrated. They really push this over on the B2 message board so I thought it was going to be like B2 only better but it's nothing like it and I won't even be able to import my old B2 posts.
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"In the comments it doesn't have seperate spaces to enter the name, email address and URL, like on almost all other blogs and I don't see any way to fix that." If you're logged in it's not going to show these things. For someone who isn't logged in it does.
"And how do you add stuff to the sidebar? Like photos, Sitemeter and stuff?" You get yourself a widgetized theme, and the widgets plugin. There are plenty of themes on the codex that are widgetized.
"Yeah, I know, there are hundreds but none of them are mine." So you start with a widgetized theme and you customize it yourself using the many docs available.
Blogspot is an awful server, it's slow as molasses, and pisses visitors off. I've got broadband and have to wait for blogspot sites to load *yawn* which means I seldom read blogspot blogs. As an ap, blogger is for amateurs. It doesn't have nearly the extensibility nor the sheer usability of any of the better blogging software, of which WordPress is one. I also wonder why you'd want to develop a blog to boost someone else's domain name (blogspot) when you can have your own domain name and monetize for your own self, and using software like wordpress that will give you good Search Engine Position pretty effortlessly. If you want to be labeled in people's minds as an amateur blogger, then keep doing what you're doing.
If you really want to have a serious blog, then stop whining and learn how to use wordpress.
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Starkmann
Posted 5 years ago #I had a blogspot blog for a while. I left it for WordPress. It wasn't horrible it just wasn't as capable. It was kind of the difference between buying a computer or building a computer. Build is more work and has the opportunity for screw up but you can make it do whatever you want, look however you want, the sky is the limit. The purchased computer is a little more expensive, roughly equal in power but you get what you get. It's only so customizable.
I had trouble with WordPress when I first tried, in fact I had someone else install it because I couldn't get it to run. Then I set up a second blog and did it myself. The last couple days I have been able to help a friend with his. I enjoy poking the template, adding the feeds I want, trying to find that next cool plugin.
Honestly my first reactions were not different from the new user above but I'm really happy I made the switch. -
Posted 5 years ago #Well, I expected that sooner or later someone would get rude and accuse me of whining. Something else I've always liked about B2 is that the people on their support forum are courteous, helpful and supportive.
I switched from Blogspot years ago for exactly some of the reasons you mentioned. So far WordPress seems closer to Blogger than B2, just more complicated. B2 is fully customizable. It lets you do your own thing not just "plugin" "widgets" and choose from existing themes.
But never mind. Obviously WordPress is not for me. I know a lot of people use it and like it. I'll keep reading and experimenting a little more to give it a fair chance and see if something clicks but I think I should look for something else or maybe just wait until my host finally gets around to updating MySQL, which, according to what I've been reading, is mostly likely the problem with B2.
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So far WordPress seems closer to Blogger than B2, just more complicated. B2 is fully customizable. It lets you do your own thing not just "plugin" "widgets" and choose from existing themes.
I actually disagree with this. I've used Blogspot, MT, pMachine, Expression Engine, Pivot, Joomla and a couple of others that you've probably never heard of. Thus far, WordPress is the easiest and simplest one I've used. And *fully* costomizable? I have yet to find something that is as customizable as WordPress. You can do almost *anything* with it. And it truly is easy to learn - I downloaded and installed WordPress for the first time in March of this year. By mid-May I had released my first theme.
If you have your own design that you like, you can *easily* use it in WordPress - there's almost nothing to it. If it helps, you can read my post on the subject (I put it up recently) on my site. (just click on my name.)
And yes, you can import your old Blogger posts.
As for this:
Well, I expected that sooner or later someone would get rude and accuse me of whining.
To be truly honest, you were a little bit. You came into a thread and said you hated it, yet admitted you'd just started with it. In this last post you've even admitted you are *now* going to give it a chance (which means you hadn't even done so yet before you decided to complain about it). It honestly sounds like you've already decided against it - and admittedly without even opening it up and really seeing what it can do - which does sound a little like whining (apologies for that, but it does.)
As for the "rudeness" comment, I saw "bluntness". Some people take that as rudeness, others take it as constructive criticism. I guess it's how you see it. But it doesn't help that you make general comments about your troubles and no specifics so that you can gain help - it *does* make you look like you posted just to complain - and this is a *support* forum - not a *vent* forum.
But in the end, you really should give it a try before you shoot it down. You obviously *wanted* to, or you never would have installed it in the first place, right? :)
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