Blogger vs Wordpress

To get a better understanding of which one is the best choice for you, consider a constructive view of each one. First, consider what Blogger offers. This tool, owned and operated by Google, is easy to set up and it only takes a matter of minutes to get online. Once you establish the account, which may take you no longer than ten minutes, you can begin to post.
Adding pages and new posts is simple with Blogger. It takes only a few minutes to learn this platform, too.
You can select from a range of design options. If you change your mind later on, it is easy to switch those designs, too.
One factor to consider is the domain name. It will be thenameofyourblog.blogspot.com in all situations. You can choose yourown domain name If you do so, you lose that “blogspot” element to the domain. However, there is a fee for doing this.
You do not need to know any type of coding to use this system. In other words, you can just get started with little knowledge of the web’s HTML and advanced coding. For many beginning bloggers, that is a critical factor.
There are various tools and gadgets you can use with your Blogger account. This includes videos, slideshows, news, etc. The user has a good amount of control over where these can be placed throughout the page, too.
To monetize this blog, it is best to use Google AdSense. Since Google owns both, integration is simplistic.

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This article is about the blogging software. For the blog host, see WordPress.com.

WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool and a content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL. It has many features including a plug-in architecture and a template system. WordPress is used by over 14.7% of Alexa Internet's "top 1 million" websites and as of August 2011 manages 22% of all new websites.WordPress is currently the most popular blogging system in use on the Web.
It was first released on May 27, 2003, by founders Matt Mullenweg and Mike Littleas a fork of b2/cafelog. As of December 2011, version 3.0 had been downloaded over 65 million times.

Themes

WordPress users may install and switch between themes. Themes allow users to change the look and functionality of a WordPress website or installation without altering the information content or structure. Themes may be installed using the WordPress "Appearance" administration tool or theme folders may be uploaded via FTP.The PHP and HTML code in themes can also be edited for more advanced customizations. Thousands of WordPress themes exist, some free, and some premium templates which a user has to buy.

Plugins

One very popular feature of WordPress is its rich plugin architecture which allows users and developers to extend its abilities beyond the features that are part of the base install; WordPress has a database of over 22,000 plugins with purposes ranging from SEO to adding widgets.

Widgets

Widgets are small modules that offer users drag-and-drop sidebar content placement and implementation of many plugins' extended abilities. Widgets allow WordPress developers to add functionality to their sites. These small modules can be used to add functionality such as a slideshow, Facebook Like box, small news slider, and more.

Multi-user and multi-blogging

Prior to WordPress 3.0, WordPress supported one blog per installation, although multiple concurrent copies may be run from different directories if configured to use separate database tables. WordPress Multi-User (WordPress MU, or just WPMU) was a fork of WordPress created to allow multiple blogs to exist within one installation that is able to be administered by a centralized maintainer. WordPress MU makes it possible for those with a website to host their own blogging community, as well as control and moderate all the blogs from a single dashboard. WordPress MU adds eight new data tables for each blog.
WordPress MU merged with WordPress as part of the 3.0 release