And Chuck Ross is the disease’s latest victim. His new address:
So that makes how many bloggers who’ve succumbed to this wily wench of web-writing?
WordPress fever – it’s spreading!
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Ferdinand:
I’m trying to think of a new catchphrase for you. I’m liking “The Plugman Cometh”.
Thanks for the update.
Hah…from using the Spearhead control panel, I see why so many folks are succumbing!
I simply am just comfortable at blogger, and don’t want to spend the time to transfer, copy and than beg for everyone to change their links for me…
…but if I ever get shutdown by blogger, I’ll definitely restart on Wordpress.
I refuse to move my blog to Wordpress. Blogger has an easy way to customize one’s template for FREE. You have to pay Wordpress for the privilege of … um … CODING your own? Bah. Gimme a break!
Anakin,
Actually there are dozens of templates to choose from. Some even allow you to upload your own banner picture. There’s all kinds of widgets to choose from and customize too.
Blogger is better, way more flexible templates, Google Analytics, compatibility and pinging with Google, automatic GMail account, all the same widgets available.
I don’t understand what Wordpress provides than Blogger doesn’t. It’s almost like SWPL’s who swear by Macs even though they offer nothing substantially better (as I type on my Dell).
@ OneSTDV: The PC v Macs thing is an apt analogy. Blogger is more popular and easier to use but succumbs to viruses (google closing the blog down) more often than Wordpress.
At least thats the way I see it.
Part of the reason for my change was to get my name out of the URL of the blog. I set up the blogger blog a while back not thinking I’d be touching on subjects that would prevent me from getting a career type job.
But after posting at the Spearhead, like Dave points out, I enjoy the functionality. Blogger feels bulky; I don’t know how else to describe it. The trackbacks are a big plus too.
What OneSTDV is somewhat correct, although, at least for me, I didn’t switch to wordpress because it’s fashionable to be on Wordpress. I think that Wordpress templates are cleaner, more sleek, and just better looking than Blogger templates. That’s a big reason people choose Macs over PCs as well.
One other problem I had with blogger is that I never knew when I got comments on old posts. I started moderating comments for posts that had been up longer than 4 days, but when you’d mod the comment it wouldn’t tell you which post it went with. This annoyed me to no end.
Formatting posts is a pain too. Especially when dealing with blockquotes or pictures; the spacing is a pain.
“I don’t understand what Wordpress provides than Blogger doesn’t.”
The absence of Google is what Wordpress offers.
One other problem I had with blogger is that I never knew when I got comments on old posts.
@chuck- just have all the comments sent to your email address. Then they will come labeled for what post they were written under.