Towards the end of last year, I decided
to migrate my blog from Blogger to Wordpress because Blogger can be relatively
restricting and Wordpress has more freedom in various aspects. This isn’t the
first time that I’ve drifted away from Blogger – a couple years ago I tried
Squarespace and after I year, I came back to blogger (find out why, here). So after a sh*t load of money
and couple months of trying to get my Wordpress blog for the New Year, I
decided that Wordpress wasn’t for me and that Blogger is my tried and true and
has worked perfectly well for the majority of my blogging journey.
Everything about Wordpress is more
expensive than blogger, most probably due to the freedom and how unrestricting
it is. As I wanted a Wordpress.Org blog, it meant that it would be self-hosted
which means that as a creator, I would need to pay for a website host (either
annually or monthly) which would provide a sort of base for my blog obviously
host the website and depending on the host you go with, can include a personal
email address (for example, info@charlottechristmas.com rather than charlottechristmas@hotmail.co.uk)
which just gives off a more professional vide. On top of that, the blog designs
in general are more expensive than Blogger. With blogger, you can peruse
through Etsy and find amazing designs for no more than £5 and with Wordpress,
your minimum is around the £20 mark. I completely scraped this and bought my first
Wordpress design for £65 and when that didn’t work out how I wanted due to how
technical it was, I purchased another for £30 about a week or two before I then
decided that Wordpress wasn’t for me – waste of money, I know. Another thing to
note is that even if you purchase a blog design through Etsy, the majority of
graphic designers will have an additional cost to install the theme for you and
with Blogger, there are a lot more designers who have already included it in
the design fee.
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TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES & MINIMAL
SUPPORT
I had so many technical difficulties
with Wordpress, I would literally spend hours and hours on end searching and
trying so many different things to sort things out and when I eventually found
out how to sort one thing out, I hit a brick wall with another. The first thing
that really irked me was that I couldn’t import my blog posts from Blogger to
Wordpress, so it meant that if I wanted all my blog posts over the past 3 years,
I would have to manually copy and paste over 400 blog posts which, as you could
imagine would be incredible time consuming, especially in such a short amount
of time. With Wordpress, you can download lots of different Plugins, which are
like Instagram widgets, columns, and Shopify etc. I downloaded so many
different plugins, many of which either didn’t work as they said they would or
weren’t compatible with the version of Wordpress or child theme that I had. To
top it off, I couldn’t get the blog design that I wanted or was proud to show
because technically things just weren’t working, as they should. Following on
from the technical difficulties, I had minimal support. As someone who isn’t a
graphic designer or very tech savvy, I definitely needed assistance because
when it comes to blogging, I can only write and decipher small amounts of HTML
and CSS. Although Blogger doesn’t have an abundance of support either, it is a
lot easier to get to grips with and understand.
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