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- If you’re a regular reader of this blog , you might be surprised the title of today’s post.
It was not this type of Blogger4zero which said that we must not use WordPress.org and WordPress.com?
No, he did not say that …
But these days, to interact directly with readers of the blog on a WordPress workshop , I had the chance to check it seems that this is the message we have played some readers posts on WordPress that I recently published, even WordPress .com or Blogger are bad products, despite the posts that have already addressed the issue .
So this particular situation has inspired me the idea to pick up again, but focusing on the first post in the differences between the three products and speaking in a second post I will publish a little later from the opposite perspective: When to Use WordPress.com (or Blogger) as the preferred alternative to WordPress.org
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Basic differences between WordPress.com, Blogger and WordPress.org
Roughly three options main and differences are:
1. WordPress.com
It is “hosted” option Automattic (the company) creator of WordPress allows you to open a free account (like you abrieses an email account with Hotmail or Gmail) and linked to that account you create a space that is your blog and you will an Internet address style “myblog.wordpress.com “.
That is, your blog, so to speak, no longer a “chunk” of the vast web of wordpress.com (although there are many nuances as the possibility of paying for your own domain, etc., but now I prefer simplicity) .
2. Blogger
To oversimplify, we can consider, now that Blogger is quite similar to WordPress.com option to also be a hosted option, although another company: Google . In this case, the URL would be something like “myblog.blogspot.com “. However, I think your chances superior to WordPress.com, further down you will see why.
However, taking into account the closure policy service of Google unceremoniously personally a blog on Blogger seems to me to involve a major risk since it can be easily covered by these policies.
3. WordPress.org
It is the “self-hosted” (own accommodation), option here the concept of platform changes radically. In this case, it no longer is to open an account on Automattic you staying for your blog, but you have to download the application and install WordPress on your own web server.
You have to hire a domain and install the application in a service of hosting and do a little work of maintenance (updates approve WordPress, plugins, etc.).
Today, hiring a good hosting provider, this is not a big problem as you can see in one of the videos below. Now it is essential to choose the right hosting provider, as elsewhere, with a good supplier things go bad shot and one of unbounded problems.
As you can see, with this option you will cook it and you you eat, but you come to change some possibilities that are simply light years of the previous two options.
In short, the main difference is that these are different concepts:
- Blogger and WordPress.com are essentially cloud services
- And in WordPress.org you can download the WordPress application to install and run it yourself with your own (your hosting).
To understand a little better (roughly) which means lean on a hosted option or WordPress.org as own hosting solution is useful to compare with WordPress.com WordPress.org
The application used in both cases is the same, is the WordPress application. But the way to use it is quite different and has many implications.
Basically it is that to WordPress.com to provide free accommodation feasible have to castrate the service much , is how to contain incidents and maintenance effort. Or you will be maintaining this free service they would go out of hand. For this reason, for example, not allowed to WordPress.com plugins when they happen to be the most powerful feature just having WordPress. This is because that would mean many more incidents to the maintenance team of Automattic, apart from a Freemium business model where Automattic aims to make money with paid services that enhance free.
However, they have been generous enough to offer the WordPress application as open and free software , that is, with all its source code. So you can lose you the, and you get off version is the full version, without nothing. In return, you take care to install the application and maintain it. The application will the lower WordPress.org
This version is infinitely more powerful for the reasons that i will later discussed, but carries some investment in time for installation and training to learn to install and maintain. In return you get a professional platform , homeless, because with WordPress.org anything you can imagine is technically possible .
What is the difference between WordPress.com and Blogger?
View the big differences between WordPress.com and WordPress.org platform as a hosted platform as “self-hosted” would question the differences between the two hosted options, the differences between Blogger and WordPress.com .
So I’ll make a comparison with 5 points in different aspects, which should give you a first orientation which implies clear leaning towards one or another option and what is the best option for your personal situation :
1. Common Features
Let’s start with the most important features they have in common:
- They are hosted by their respective creative companies.
- They are free.
- The free option implies that the domain is the company (.blogspot.com or wordpress.com).
- Both allow use own domains, but your own domain and involves pay.
- Both limit the space for files, images , etc.
2. Benefits Blogger
- It has a designer templates included to modify the layout , fonts and colors of your blog without knowing anything about code HTML or CSS .
- If you know how to program, can even include snippets of code for advanced customizations.
- It allows monetization via AdSense .
- It allows using Google Analytics .
- No shows ads unwanted third parties.
3. Disadvantages Blogger
- Maximum 20 static pages (though unlimited number of posts).
- The migration to WordPress.org is often complicate more than WordPress.com to have more different details. For example, custom design templates are lost if any, custom code, etc.
- They do not have a service redirection as WordPress.com (for “good” redirects are 301 redirects ), which further complicates migration loss if you do not want “Google Juice” (the positioning in Google)
- You are learning to drive a tool whose interface has nothing to do with WordPress.org, migrate to the professional platform WordPress.org assumed that this knowledge is lost and you have to start from scratch.
- There is no “self-hosted” platform WordPress.org equivalent to Blogger without limitations.
4. Advantages of WordPress.com
- The learning curve is quite softer than with WordPress.org, especially for people with little technical knowledge. You create your account, choose a topic that will serve you learn some basics like the difference between a post and a page and write …
- For the same reason, start a project with WordPress.com blog is really fast (like Blogger)
- It facilitates migration to WordPress.org and offers the service Redirect Site that keeps Google rankings even with a different domain structure and URLs in the blog. Save the problem of losing everything if they change the positioning of migrated URLs contained in the new blog.
- WordPress provides payment services that eliminate some of its limitations.
- All knowledge learned from WordPress.com to WordPress.org re-uses it as the common parts in the two platforms are handled exactly the same.
5. Disadvantages of WordPress.com
- You can not use plugins (to extend it or adapt it to specific needs of the blogger) and has a very limited range of subjects(at this time, about 200 approximately).
- Nor it has a template designer and Blogger, but offers something lower payment.
- It does not allow the monetization via AdSense or any other platform.
- Not allowed to use Google Analytics .
- Displays ads that generate revenue without having to WordPress stop option.
Concluding
In short, you can not say no more than a platform is “better” than another.
In itself, nor WordPress is “better” than Blogger, Blogger or “better” than WordPress or WordPress.org “better” than WordPress.com or Blogger.
The question is not “what is the best option?”, the question is “what is the best choice for my specific needs with the blog now and in the future?”
WordPress.org possibilities are light years both WordPress.com and Blogger, but also implies the need for a higher initial training to cope with concepts such as hosting and installation. Furthermore, certain services such as managing email subscribers who come “standard” in Blogger and WordPress.com in WordPress.org plugins must be installed by, for example, Knews and for that we must know what a plugin and then locate and select suitable for your needs.
My advice (roughly):
For a beginner who just want to try this in the blogs, is probably the most reasonable Blogger or WordPress.com and WordPress.org no.
Blogger, overall, it seems far more powerful than WordPress.com , but the big problem is that if tomorrow you see cement yourself as a blogger and start feeling the need to migrate to WordPress.org, it will complicate probably pretty more than if you had used WordPress.com because have try such which really affect me.
If we add the factor of risk involved in using the services of Google regularly seen close some of its services without much notice the damage this causes to the users personally would not open my blog in Blogger .
If you are a beginner, WordPress.com be a good choice (can even be a professional and bloggers for use with hearth).
But you want/need to create a blog a little more sophisticated, you want to promote it as a platform for your business and you are thinking functionality as , beyond creating just inputs (eg selling products and services or even mount an online store complete) is you can quickly get to needs that can only be covered with WordPress.org therefore can compensate make an initial effort to start training with a professional platform from the beginning.
If in doubt enter these options also recalls that migrate from WordPress.com to WordPress.org is reasonably affordable, so if you decide to start with WordPress.com actually going to be hard to mistake .
Bonus Track: Create an account at WordPress.com and create a professional blog with WordPress.org
And you definitely are clear differences between a hosted option and a blog hosting own, I leave these three videos from youtube where you can see the differences between creating a blog on WordPress.com to WordPress.org and create
Note:- Videos used here are copyright of their respective owner.
The first will teach you how to create a free account option, but limited WordPress.com:
How to create a free blog (or website) with WordPress.com
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And the next two videos teach you how to create a server-based WordPress.org blog hosting for and once ready your server, how to install WordPress in it:
How to create a hosting provider and choose well your
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How to install a WordPress blog hosting 3.x
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