The Benefits Of WordPress Over Other Blogging Platforms
Todays budding blogger has a wide range of blogging platforms to choose from. Blogspot, Squidoo, LiveJournal, WordPress and many others all seem to boast similar features at face value.
It can therefore be a daunting task to decide which of the available blogging platforms will best meet your blogging needs. However, most professional bloggers name WordPress as their “blog of choice”.
WordPress, like the majority of other blogging platforms, is free to use. However, WordPress has a higher storage allowance then it’s competitors — a whopping 3 gigs! Additionally, WordPress permits you to install their platform on to your own personal website, which most other blogging platforms don’t allow. Not only does installing WordPress on your website allow for complete control, but you you can make use of the entirety of the bandwidth provided by your internet hosting plan. No more 3 gig limit!
It’s common for blogging platforms to let their users host images, but WordPress offers another another benefit in that as well as hosting images, you can also host a variety of files including PDFs, Word documents and PowerPoint presentations.
The open source nature of WordPress is a further reason for its popularity as a blogging platform. This allows for limitless flexibility. This reason alone has drawn in many users that previously used the other platforms. Appearance and widgets can be customized completely, making it possible for you to recreate the exact impression of your blog that you’ve formed in your head.
Lets review the benefits of WordPress over other blogging platforms. We see that the option is there to install it on your own server. We have the ability to host a variety of files on our blogs, and the the limitless flexibility afforded by its open source nature. Now is the time for you non WordPress users to follow the example of professional bloggers!
This is a guest post by Matthew Wolfe. He teaches entreprenuers how to create blogs, generate traffic, and make money with his free video tutorials at The WordPress Classroom. You can also find out more about Matthew, as well as learn more tips and tricks at his personal blog, MatthewWolfe.com.
