WordPress and Blogging
Among various blogging sites, wordpress is noted for its simplicity and user
friendly interface in creating and publishing blogs. Not to mention that it has a variety of templates to choose from and it assists bloggers in many respects. But though most popular blogging programs are available, WordPress stands first in satisfying the various needs of the bloggers. This will help you to learn the tips, tricks and other information about the WordPress blogs. These details will also help the interested bloggers to make their decision, whether to go for WordPress or to try out something else.
Why should you choose WordPress?
There are so many reasons, why one should choose WordPress blog. WordPress boasts a great variety of attractive and customizable templates and it helps one in different things like being able to insert tags easily, helping to check the spelling, preview mode and auto save option, enabling the bloggers to post text files, audio files and video files, ability to track statistical data along with so many other excellent features. One may decide to choose WordPress on account of these useful features as some bloggers consider them to be must for organic SEO.
How to start a blog with WordPress
Bloggers who want to start a new blog with WordPress need not worry about the time. You can do this within few minutes. So for those bloggers who do not wish to take a long time to get their blog up and running, you may want to opt for WordPress for its simplicity. All you need to start a blog is a valid email address and a username. Once a blogger signs up for WordPress he gets a password immediately. Then he should check his inbox for a mail from WordPress and click the activation link to activate the account with the provided password. You can either start to blog immediately, or begin customizing your theme or plugins.
Must read for Beginners:
- How to Install WordPress on Dreamhost
- How to Install WordPress on Hostgator
- How to Install WordPress on Bluehost
Additional Support for WordPress Beginners
Some newbies may need additional supports initially because, as it is the first time, they would be haunted by various questions about the basic features of blogging and when they move further, they may need technical assistance regarding the advanced features in it. WordPress caters to the need of all the bloggers, of all the levels. One may even contact the support staff or get support from online forums, which are very active and chances are your question has already been asked.
Do share your view on which platform is easier to start with? Free WordPress.com blog or Free BlogSpot blog?
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if these are the reasons then i guess i’ll stick with blogspot .
Availability of plugins for wordpress is a big big factor why i (and other bloggers) move to wordpress. Besides with self hosted wordpress you aren’t ‘under’ google anymore :p
I personally prefer WP because it’s so much more customizable with plugins. You have more control
I will recommend free blogspot blog to beginners
because many newbie bloggers are not able to achieve what they want, So why waste money for web hosting. First go to blogspot blog and check yourself you can do this or not. Then you can migrate to wordpress.org.
and about free wordpress.com, people should read the above post ‘Difference b/w wordpress.com and wordpress.org’.
WP vs Blogger is quite subjective issue. IMO the beginners should start with a custom domain at blogger. Feature wise blogger is getting richer every passing day. Moreover its free.
what else a beginner can aspire for!
In my past 8 months of experience, I find Blogger as a good service that also helps in earning without investing anything on hosting & all.
Also AdSense & Amazon can be integrated seamlessly @ blogger
I think wordpress plateform is easy to handle ,easy to understand and most of the plugin which support in wordpress .Also customization is very easy task in wordpress.So thank to make aware
Wordpress is really very search engine optimized blogging platform. Beginners are advised to use wordpress.
Great article.
Well, I have used both the blogspot and wp. What I believe is that WP is more convenient, easy to use, a lot of plug in makes your life more comfortable, SEO friendly and so much free themes avaiable that I didn’ find on blog spot. I receive very few comments in blog spot while in WP the response by way of comments is also significatly higher then blogspot.
So, I agree with author that one should start blogging with wp only and I will add if you are serios for blog then you should use a paid hosting service instead of using a free one
I agree that WP is much easier, and I far prefer the interface – however, if you’re just hosting a free blog, I was under the impression that free WP blogs do not support Adsense – is that right?
Dave, yes wordpress.com doesn’t support adsense. But they have changed the rule that if you get huge amount of traffic, you may use it
With the number of plugins and themes, Wordpress wil always rocks. Thanks for sharing!!!
I started with a blogger blog, and I wish I could move it to wordpress now, but I don’t want to lose my traffic/PR. I much prefer WP. I found blogger easy to set up, but once I learned Wordpress, which isn’t too bad at all, I realized how much more it was capable. But if you don’t plan to do a whole lot with the site or feel the need to customize it a great deal, then blogger is a great choice as well. Just my 2 cents
I have blogger blog and want to migrate in wordpress. Hope you will post tutorial for migrating from blogger to wordpress.
Thanks!
start with wordpress because after using any free platform like blogger you will eventually move to wordpress. So why not start with the best
Good post. You can tell the world about this. WordPress is fun. I am addicted to it. I just started another project on Make Money Online of which, wordpress is the blogging platform
I totally agree. Wordpress is the most simple to use blog or website building system.