Blogger vs WordPress

Blogger and WordPress are the blogging platforms that use to make blogging easily. However, there are still some difference between them.

 Figure 1: Blogger

Blogger is a blogging platform that owned by Google. It means that Google has the right to stop it or shut your access in anytime. But it is a free blogging platform that attracts many people to use it. Since it is directly owned by Google, so if you have a Google account, basically you already have a blogger. It is really simple and clear to create a post in blogger. It provide some basic web fonts, and can add image and video within your post. 

However, blogger is limited to some specific tasks. There is no way to extend other that blogging a post. For the templates, it only provides certain choices and very limited. All these mean that using blogger is just need a very quick time.

Figure 2: WordPress

With WordPress, you use a WordPress hosting provider to host your own site. You have the rights to decide how long you want to run it and when you want to shut it down. You owned your own data and can control the information that you want to share to third party. WordPress is an open source software as you easily extend to any features, like adding a store, create a portfolio and so on. Comparing to the blogger, WordPress consists thousands choices of themes to let us modify and customize in a easy way.  Compare to blogger, WordPress is kind of a upgraded blogging to Blogger. It contains many functions that can be extended and create something upon yourself to make it more complex and professional-looking.