August 24th, 2008 by admin
New blog writers everywhere are faced with a serious dilemma when they first reach the Internet and must decide which blogging platform is best for their new website. There are actually dozens of options on the market, ranging from the basic blog settings of the social networks to the self-hosted open sources software solutions.
However, for most new bloggers and those who don’t want to pay for their blog, the choice boils down to one of two websites: Blogger and Wordpress. These two services have become synonymous in recent years with the blogging phenomenon, making up a massive percentage of the Internet’s most popular blogs. For that reason, there has been a bit of discussion over which service is better.
Provided here is a solid answer to that question once and for all, 7 reasons why Blogger is in fact better than Wordpress. These comparisons relate to the free accounts available from both Blogger and Wordpress.
Integrated Login with Your Google Account
With the ability to easily connect all of your Google accounts, this is a big plus for Blogger. Many of the most useful features for a website are offered by Google, including AdSense, AdWords, and Webmaster tools for Google indexing. Instead of adding code into your templates, something that can quickly become confusing and result in broken websites, Blogger allows you to simply click a button and integrate AdSense or banners into your site.
This allows you to use the same login information for all Google services and that sets Blogger a few steps ahead. Wordpress is an open sources solution, meaning that all extra services must be manually integrated into your blog after you have signed up for your account. Read the rest of this entry »
Wordpress is an unbelievably powerful tool for the online business owner. If you already have a site, all you need to do is add a Wordpress blog to a directory on your domain.
For instance, if your site is at www.yoursite.com, you would simply install Wordpress into a directory like /blog/. The Wordpress blog will then be found at www.yoursite.com/blog/. You can use any directory name you want; ‘news’ and ‘updates’ are two other good choices.
Most hosts come with a cpanel account with fantistico. You can actually install Wordpress through fantistico with just a couple of clicks. It takes less than 5 minutes. The Wordpress backend is simple to navigate, so once you have it set up, it won’t take you long at all to become familiar with it. You’ll be able to make your first post within minutes. Read the rest of this entry »
If you are thinking to start your own blog then WordPress is the right tool to go for. My friends have been using it for long time and some of them have built impressive blog site using WordPress. Myself I like it, not it is free but it is simple, easy, light yet powerful. It has features of most of modern CMS for blogging and it is most widely used over the Internet.
Let me highlight some of the features of Word Press.
1. Easy to Install
One of the reason people run away from using Content Management System(CMS) because they are hard to install and configure. Wordpress is very easy while installing. Just need three click and you are ready with your blog. If you dont have your own domain name and web space, you can register free on wordress.org site and start blogging.
2. Nice Interface
Interface is another big factor which determines whether CMS will continue for long or not and will be liked by others. Interface help users to learn and understand particular software quickly. Wordress has nice blue Default interface. Administrative interface is blue with meaningful links. Links are placed just at right places so that you dont have to search around. You can spell check your post, edit it easily with rich text based editor. Read the rest of this entry »
The wordpress plugins are arranged broadly by category of usage. As
far as I know, all these plugins are compatible with the latest
WordPress version. Please feel free to suggest great plugins in
comments that I can add to this list.
Manage WordPress Comments
- Subscribe To Comments - Allows readers to recieve notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry.
- WP AJAX Edit Comments - Allows users and admins to edit comments on a post inline using AJAX.
- Close Old Posts - Closes comments on old posts without any DB queries.
- WP Grins - allows you to put clickable smilies on your post and comments forms.
- WordPress Paged Comments - allows comment paging. Useful for those very popular blog entries receiving many comments.
- Live Comment Preview - the simplest way to get live comment previews on your site.
- Show Top Commentators - Encourage more discussion from your readers, by displaying their
names and number of comments they have made recently to your sidebar.
- MyAvatars - shows MyBlogLog’s alvatar in your comments
- Comment Relish - Sends a thank you e-mail to your first time commentators.
- Favatars - displays the favicon associated with the commenter’s website.
- Brian’s Threaded Comments - adds a ‘Reply to this comment’ link to every comment. Makes it easy for people to reply to comments and discuss better. Read the rest of this entry »
You always wanted to upgrade wordpress plugin automatically. Wordpress 2.5 has brought along its share of goodies which let you upgrade plugins in one click. Now updating plugins need not be an arduous task as before and new wordpress bloggers will find this particularly easy.
Earlier upgrading plugins was tedious. Once you realized a new version was available, it required deactivating the plugin, downloading, unzipping and reading the upgrade instructions (in case some new tricky modification required), then uploading the plugins php files to the wordpress plugin directory and reactivating the plugin and hopefully all will work out well.
Fast and Quick Wordpress Plugin Upgrades
Wordpress 2.5 introduced the much requested feature for easy one click plugin upgrades. I received a notice that my Google XML Sitemaps Plugin needed an update. This time it had an “Upgrade Automatically” link beside it
I simply clicked the “Upgrade Automatically” link and in a few seconds it was all done…Wordpress Plugin Update Read the rest of this entry »
New blog writers everywhere are faced with a serious dilemma when they first reach the Internet and must decide which blogging platform is best for their new website. There are actually dozens of options on the market, ranging from the basic blog settings of the social networks to the self-hosted open sources software solutions.