Google Blogger Is Better Than WordPress

Yes, Google Blogger is better than WordPress in my opinion.  I've use Google Blogger for about 7 years.  I have used WordPress for about 2 years.  I've also had my website hosted by SiteSell for about 5 years. Don't use SiteSell.

Note: I am referring here not to websites hosted by WordPress but using the WordPress interface (the code, software) while the site is hosted on a commercial server like Hostgator -- you see it is bloody confusing ;). That is the first point. WordPress = confusing : Blogger = Simple.

Why do I think Google Blogger is better than WordPress?  Firstly, Blogger is more reliable.  It is way more reliable.  I have a clear sense that Google engineers are better than WordPress engineers. That makes sense because Google is an enormous company worth many billions of dollars with thousands of engineers writing the very best modern code.

A recent problem highlights what I mean.  Every so often WordPress issue an update to the basic code and the latest update was 3.9. It proved to be incompatible with certain plug-ins and themes.....and the visual editor does not work properly for a lot of people....and image manipulation and positioning etc. is a lot worse than the previous version which is causing a lot of problems for a lot of people and...  I needn't go on but the truth is you don't want to update your WordPress software when they say you have to because you're bound to get a problem somewhere when, for example, a bloody plug-in does not work properly after the update.

There are thousands of plug-ins for WordPress but lots of them - if not all of them - are scripts and they may slow down the load time of your site because the script code is at the top of the page and this causes a blockage when the browser loads the webpage.  Just another glitch. This is important, though, because search results (SEO) are partly dependent on load times.

WordPress is more flexible than Google Blogger.  I will concede that but you don't need flexibility beyond a certain point and there is a perfectly adequate amount of flexibility in Google Blogger to create a website that really appeals regarding appearance.

I almost forgot.  Google Blogger is entirely free.  If you want a unique URL then you have to pay for that but they're very cheap anyway normally.  But the actual hosting of the website is entirely free.

As the WordPress, there will be a fee to host the website and it will be between $100 and $2000 perhaps even more depending on what sort of hosting you choose.  These prices are per annum.

The most important benefit of using Google blogger is reliability.  You have piece of mind and most people these days simply want to focus on writing and not be bogged down with coding things.  With WordPress you really do need to know a bit about code because not infrequently you are involved in patching up incompatibility issues or problems here and there.

And the code is complicated.  WordPress code isn't just straightforward HTML.  It does depend on what version of WordPress you are using but  unless you're comfortable with coding you might be intimidated.  In addition, even simply running the control panels of plug-ins and your website generally can be complicated.  Google blogger is much more straightforward which allows you to focus on what matters, content.

Lastly, as Google Blogger is a Google product, if you consistently write  good (excellent) content on your Google blog, Google will like it and will find it in search results.  So the last good point about Google blogger and one reason why it is better than WordPress is because it is inherently better from the point of view of SEO and you haven't got to do any fancy SEO work to achieve that (unlike WordPress).

If you have questions please leave a comment.

WordPress Version 3.9 Incompatible With Some Themes and Plug-Ins

As far as I am concerned, the code writers at WordPress should not issue updates to their software unless and until they know it is compatible with all known plug-ins and themes. Now, I know that will be impossible to do and in which case the whole WordPress model/system is a failure.

You cannot issue updates and upgrades to WordPress such as version 3.9 without knowing that it works with other third-party software which is part of the WordPress system. Plug-ins are written by all kinds of people and are part of the WordPress system of building a website. The underlying software is written by the WordPress code writers but they seem to think that they can ignore the plug-ins which are used by every single person who has a WordPress website.

The recent 3.9 WordPress upgrade has cause endless problems most particularly with the most important part of a WordPress blog, which is the visual editor. The visual editor is a bit like a word processor and it is not working properly because of this upgrade.

The upgrade was meant to improve image and video handling. As far as I'm concerned it does not. It doesn't work at all and I'm extremely disappointed in WordPress.

The more I read about this sort of thing, the more I realise that the WordPress model, the whole system upon which it is built is a bit of a failure because plug-ins are often incompatible with the WordPress coding. And so are the themes.

It is highly irritating to deal with these bugs. It is time wasting and often extremely hard to resolve these problems. It's a bloody failure, as I said, and something has to done about it because I'm tired of being lectured to by some geek who seems to be blaming the plug-in and the theme code writers rather than themselves!

Note to cat lovers: Sorry but I had to get this off my chest.