Wordpress or Blogger? Which is better? That's what I asked my technician friend Rosdi. He said "Aha! I have a magazine that will help you to choose!" He brought the magazine (thanks Rosdi), I read through the compare and contrast review of 10 blogsites and I made my choice: Wordpress. The magazine also rated Wordpress 9 upon 10, whereas Blogger got an 8 over 10, which isn't bad at all. However, I think the higher rating for Wordpress is justified.
But as soon I decided to migrate to Wordpress, the headache began. I had about 12 entries in my old blog at http://joythinkspace.blogspot.com/ which I wanted to transfer to my new blogsite at Wordpress. What a tedious process it was. All the embedded videos (there were quite a few) and links (many) had to be transferred, one by one. And only from 12 posts! I am glad I didn't wait till more data piled up before I got down to transferring my stuff.
So why am I taking so much trouble to migrate? There is only one reason: Wordpress allows me to categorize my posts, while Blogger does not. I find the categorizing function extremely important in helping people search efficiently for what they want from the blog. Blogger only has the tag function, which is not as helpful in the search process. Tags are less specific than categories.
Wordpress design templates are also very cool. I think I made a good choice.
I have one or two more posts to transfer. After that, I'm done. I will miss Blogger. It is such a pity they don't have a categorizing function, which is so essential for organizing and searching for posts. Otherwise, I would have stayed.
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