WordPress should allow users more flexibility
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I think WordPress is superior to Blogger in many ways, primarily the ability to create pages. But I really hope that one day WordPress can allow users to add advertisement units (javascript). This is the only thing I think WordPress loses out to Blogger. Most casual bloggers I know have Adsense/Nuffnang units.
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I know, I’ve gone with paid and free hosting over the years. But now my free web hosting provider is extremely unreliable, so I’m giving WordPress.com a go.
I’m just saying that if WordPress wants to compete with Blogger and Tumblr, it should allow users more flexibility.
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If wordpress.COM allowed advertising, it would likely turn into a splogger’s dream, like blogger is.
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Not to mention the security features here are ten times better than at those sites. Tumblr has been down repeatedly all week.
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Interesting – they bash WordPress.COM then come here to sign up – if this is such a bad site then why not go elsewhere?
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No I’m not saying wordpress.com is a bad blogging platform. I think it’s one of the best, but I’m just giving my 2 cents on how it could be better. Please don’t be mistaken :)
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I would agree about the flexibility. Comparing to Blogger we can do much less in relation with the image of our blogs. Less plug-ins, widgets, themes…
But I also don’t think it’s bad, just could be improved to compete better.
And why I’m here? Well, I thought before registering that it’s a good blogging platform. And before I realised that you can’t work on your blog so much (especially if you don’t know the CSS and you don’t wanna pay) I’ve got constant reading level, I’m registered with this address in many places and I would like to keep it as long as possible.
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I disagree entirely with the notion that WordPress.com ought to become a Blogger clone. The blogpsot platform is available for all who want to use it and the diversity is the best thing about blogging platforms. So if one is not happy with their free hosted WordPress.COM blog my preference is to see them go to where their needs and desires are met.
The last thing I want to see at WordPress.com is monetized blogs because what that means is what thescaredpath points to ie. a blogging platform full of low quality and no quality, duplicate content blogs, spam blogs, and splogs full of plagarized and stolen content being pimped out for Adsense pennies.
What I witness on the blogspot platform every day is bloggers who have destroyed their blog designs by hacking the crap out of their templates and their stylesheets which don’t validate to begin with, and then have installed an abundance of widgets and gadgets into their sidebars that provide no enhancement of the readers experience. IMO many blogpspot blogs qualify for the ugliest and most amateurish blogs of the year award. So “no” I do not support WordPress.com becoming a blogspot clone.
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I think that if people have a little more info on the inner workings of WP.com they will understand why it is less customizable.
Basically, this is a shared blogging platform that is fundamentally different from Tumblr and Blogger. The internal workings of each blog are shared with every other blog on that theme; the CSS upgrade is the fee basically for isolating your blog from the others. If that were not the case, any change you made to your theme, and any security risk introduced by the DUMBEST person using that theme would be shared equally by all people using the theme. That is unacceptable, and that is why things are different here.
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Noone said that WordPress should be exactly like Blogger, at least I don’t see such info here. And in my post Blogger was just a simple example which could be change with many other. It’s just the point of having A BIT more to tell in relation with the image of our blogs.
Raincoaster – thank you for such an interesting post, that’s the quality of discussion which I appriciate, instead of attacking – explaining :)
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