Blogger vs WordPress Complete Backend Differences of 2020
WordPress and Blogger are the popular Content Delivery Networks in the present world. There is a great debate that which one is better for anything and everything. Bloggers need to choose a better CMS.
Thus, it is necessary to compare the features of Blogger and WordPress from front to end. Here is a short intro about Blogger and WordPress:
What is Blogger?
Blogger (also known as Blogspot) is a simple blogging platform developed by Google. It launched in 1999, thus it is an old one. It has many positive and negative aspects of Design, SEO and friendliness.
Pros of Blogger
- It costs $0 for a lifetime.
- It gives blogspot.com subdomain.
- Simple and reliable.
- It owned by Google, thus it gives better security.
Cons of Blogger
- Many advanced features not available.
- Can't able to give on-page meta keywords.
- Can't able to access FTP.
- You need to know HTML, CSS and XML to add extra functions through templates.
What is WordPress?
WordPress is the modern and popular CMS in the present world, developed by Automatic Inc. Many top internet magazine/blog companies using it to manage their content. According to a survey, 35% of websites built on WordPress because of its alone features.
Pros of WordPress
- Powerful and User-friendliness.
- Full control over your website.
- A Large number of themes and plugins are available.
- Media, SEO and Content Management tools.
- Developer friendly and has large community support.
Cons of WordPress
- Though WordPress is open-source, it needs a hosting provider to run. Web hosting costs more.
- The unoptimized site may hit high CPU limit.
These are the basic positive and negative facts about Blogger and WordPress. Now, we need to analyse it with deep level. I classified their features based on topics such as SEO, Content Editor, Plugins, Themes, and more.
Detailed Differences between WordPress & Blogger
Content Writing & The Editor
Blogger comes with a moderate content writer, it gives many basic needs for writers. Inserting Photos and Videos are available, also the translation plane was available. But at the same time, inline code and code box, buttons are not available. These may important for Bloggers and Content Writers.
If you place any text from another website to the post editor, it also pastes that website encode. That means text colour, HTML tags, text font and more. That is the one more limitations. For advanced features, Blogger provides HTML editor. You may add extra functions to the content using that editor.
When we come to see about WordPress, it has a super friendly Gutenberg editor. On every WordPress update, they add many new specialized features. If you want to write a better Content without hesitation, WordPress is the better choice. Everythings comes under WordPress Editor.
Winner: WordPress
Search Engine Optimization
SEO to a Website is critically important because it gives much more traffic to the users. Blogger has fine SEO optimization, though it based on template's function. In the content editor, it gives the option to provide Meta Description, but you can't add meta keywords.
It gives custom robots.txt
and custom header robot tags to improve search engine crawling. That
you can't able to add any other third-party SEO plugin to Blogger.
WordPress comes with inbuilt SEO facilities. Many SEO plugins are available in it for Search Engine Optimization. Yoast SEO like plugins makes your website to get better ranking. Thus, WordPress also leads to SEO.
Winner: WordPress
Themes and Plugins
Better themes make a website to look better and Plugins gives extra functions to the site. Blogger's theme known as a template, it may be in the format of XML. You can able to edit it using HTML editor. It has a specialized module option named as 'Gadgets.'
Gadgets are the block areas, that you may add any widget through it. It just like a widgets option. Blogger comes with limited customizer options and also it has import and export feature. You can able to switch your site's data to another Blogger site or any other CMS.
WordPress has so many themes, that are advantageous in nature. WordPress Themes comes with many static options based on customer need. It has plugins are to extent the functionality of WordPress site. That you can able to edit Themes and Plugins.
You can able to create a child theme and custom theme based on your need. It is developer-friendly. Widgets, Customizer options, Import and Export Tools, Site Health check are available together. Note that using unoptimized or unmanaged plugins can increase your CPU usage, it may decrease speed and performance.
Winner: WordPress
Dashboard Appearance
Blogger has two dashboard layouts. One known as legacy Blogger appearance and the other one is modern. The legacy layout was the static layout since the beginning of Blogger. From 2020, the new modern look sets to be the default. The new layout looks like Google's material design. The appearances are awesome now.
WordPress has a static and unique dashboard look, it represents its uniqueness. It has an option to change the colour of the dashboard. You may change the look using third party design plugins.
Winner: Both WordPress & Blogger
Cost of Money
Blogger is best for money, that you can't need to spend money. It is best for bloggers who want to start their career at $0. It has a feature to add a custom domain. Custom domains are best for traffic than sub-domains.
Self-hosted WordPress needs a hosting provider to manage your business. It cost more money. It is suitable for users those who want to start your website at a bit of investment. But such investment adds you specified features. The WordPress.com comes with free Blogging service, with many limitations.
Winner: Blogger
Wrapping Up
Choosing a better platform is based on the user's needs. These two platforms have many uniques features and limitations too. If you don't like that above two platforms you may host your site with Joomla, Drupal, Medium etc.
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