What WordPress vs Blogger.com

        WordPress vs Blogger        Georgia Lu Studios here and today we're going to talk about the difference between blocker comm and WordPress the two versions of WordPress which are super confusing blogger calm they're both blogging platforms they're both systems you can use to start a website or a blog  they are different systems  it's important to understand the difference when you go shopping for a design or a theme for your system so blogger comm which is on my screen right here is a hosted blogging platform run by Google 00:36 what hosted means is you don't have to 00:39 buy any special hosting like Site Ground 00:43 or Go Daddy blogger does it all for you 00:46 all that backend stuff they also take 00:48 care of updates and security and things 00:51 like that blogger is free if you want to 00:54 use a custom domain it will cost you a 00:56 couple of dollars a year but for the 00:59 most part blogger is a great entry level 01:01 system it is limited it's meant to 01:04 be a blogging system 01:05 um it's not meant to build a really 01:07 elaborate website you can get pretty 01:09 creative with blogger it does have 01:11 some important limitations to remember 01:13 there are a few great things about 01:15 blogger is that you don't have to 01:16 maintain your system you don't have to 01:18 worry about doing a lot of maintenance 01:21 or updates on plugins or that kind of 01:23 thing it does come with limitations 01:26 so the other system I want to talk about 01:28 is WordPress there are two versions of 01:30 WordPress one is wordpress.com it's a 01:33 hosted system a lot like blogger there's 01:36 a free entry level plan and then there's 01:38 some plans you can buy for a certain 01:41 dollars per month like to use a custom 01:43 domain it's a few dollars per month all 01:45 the way up to about twenty-five dollars 01:47 a month for their business plan blogger 01:49 comm is nice because they worry about 01:51 security they worry about updates and 01:53 things like that there are some 01:55 limitations you can't use any outside 01:57 themes you can't upload a theme or a 02:00 plugin unless you're using their 02:02 business plan which is their most 02:03 expensive plan so wordpress.com their 02:06 site looks like this you would come here 02:07 you would get started you would sign 02:10 up for a plan like I said there's a free 02:12 plan 02:13 cannot use a custom domain on their free 02:15 plan the personal plan is four dollars a 02:18 month you can use a custom domain 02:20 there's premium which has a few extra 02:22 features and then there's this business 02:23 plan for $25 a month and that gives you 02:26 the unlimited if the ability to upload 02:30 your own themes and style plugins and 02:32 upload themes so the other WordPress and 02:36 this is the most popular version and 02:37 when people say you should use WordPress 02:39 this is the one they're talking about is 02:41.org it's what's called self 02:43 hosted that means you have to buy 02:45 hosting separate from the software the 02:48 software is actually free it's called 02:50 open-source it's totally free and most 02:53 hosts have it on their list of software 02:56 that you can use and a lot of us have 02:58 what's called managed WordPress managed 03:00 hosting for example our recommended host 03:03 which is Site Ground has WordPress 03:05 managed hosting depending on what 03:07 company you go with you can pay anywhere 03:08 from $3 a month up to $50 a month $100 a 03:12 month depends on how big a plan you need 03:14 if you're getting started a startup plan 03:17 like the kind Site Ground has for 395 a 03:20 month is enough so if you want to use 03:23 WordPress which is the most 03:25 recommended for bloggers you're gonna 03:28 need to get hosting first you're 03:31 or another host like that you're gonna 03:33 need to sign up for a plan most of them 03:35 have a really easy WordPress installer 03:37 to install it on your new site and get 03:40 ready to go There is obviously some 03:42 upfront costs a lot of them require you 03:44 pay for a year at a time you're 03:46 looking at about 50 to 270 dollars to 03:49 get started for most affordable hosts so 03:53 we're pressed org is great because you 03:55 have total control you have control over 03:57 your content you can create as an 03:59 elaborative site as you want you can use 04:01 any themes you want you can use any 04:03 plugins you want it does come with some 04:06 downsides as far as you need to worry 04:08 about your own security you need to 04:10 worry about updating your plugins you 04:12 have to update WordPress if something 04:14 goes wrong when you update your 04:15 WordPress your hosts may help you but 04:19 for the most part it's gonna be on you 04:20 to get it fixed there's not as much 04:22 support when you use 04:25 WordPress now that's not much 04:26 courage you self-hosted WordPress is 04:29 great just be aware the difference 04:30 between blogger calm wordpress.com and 04:33 WordPress. 04:36 the major difference is the amount of 04:38 work you're gonna have to do and the 04:40 things you're going to be responsible 04:41 for so the final thing I'm going to say 04:44 aware that you cannot use a 04:47 blogger com blog theme or design on 04:50 WordPress either if the WordPress's 04:52 you need to buy a theme that's 04:54 specifically for WordPress it says 04:56 WordPress if it says blogger com don't 04:59 buy it if you're using WordPress if 05:01 you're using blogger com don't buy a word press theme they're just not compatible they use two different languages two different file systems so there you go that's the difference between blogger calm and WordPress as far as kind of some basics and some technical aspects