Blogger vs WordPress

Many people tell me changing to WordPress from Blogger was the best thing they ever did for their blogging.

I just don’t get it… after being on WP for a year now I still am trying to learn to make changes, and it’s seldom my changes work properly or immediately. I can name 2 times, a plugin was completely successful and worked simply and perfectly and didn’t cause me to want to pull out my hair in frustration.

Blogger was simple – everything is included on the dashboard. If I needed to change the html code or add something into the code, everything was on one page and a ‘Control F’ found it quickly. Sure, I made a few mistakes adding code as that seems to be one of the hardest things – but really it’s a piece of cake! Navigation in Blogger is simple, pictures upload quickly with no ‘ this file was too large to upload’ nonsense like I continually run into on WP and making a post ’sticky’ was one of the first things I learned.

Over the last year, there have been many times I’ve wanted to make a post on this blog ’sticky’, which means to stay at the top of the page until I decide it’s been there long enough, but could never figure out how to do it. My more recent posts always pushed it down the page. Well, I found out today I needed to upload a plugin to make sticky posts. Hmmmm… that only took me a year.

‘Simply Sticky’ is simply simple. I downloaded it to my desktop, unzipped it, uploaded it to my plugins folder, activated on my dashboard, followed the simple directions to make a sticky post (which you will see right above this one). It worked – absolutely flawlessly!

You want to hear something ironic? The ‘Simply Sticky’ WordPress plugin comes from a Blogger blog – http://bitworker.blogspot.com.