Tuesday, December 24, 2019

Winter Blog Hop - What Platform Do You Use For Your Blog?


Bookish Blog Hops' Winter Hop Day 24: 

What Platform Do You Use For Your Blog?



It is day 24 already! Thank you Jo Lindsellfor creating these Blog Hops. I am glad to be a part of the Winter edition. As you can see, today's question is What Platform Do You Use For Your Blog?

Robin (me)
https://www.robinlovesreading.com

I will answer first. I am a year and a half into blogging. For me, it is Blooger. Not by choice, really, but kind of luck of the draw. I am very impulsive, and literally one day I decided I wanted to start a blog. I didn’t know anything about it at the time, nor did I know any bloggers. So, when I Googled blogging, Blogger came in as the first hit. Had it been WordPress, I likely would have selected that one. Blogger has done me good, and I even bought my own domain a while back. I often think of switching over to WordPress, but won’t do so without tons of research first. I am eager to learn more about things such as plug-ins, and from what I have seen, WordPress seems to have more in that area.


Jo Linsdell 
www.JoLinsdell.com

I’ve been using Blogger since I started out and love it. I set it up with my domain which I got through NameCheap.com. Blogger is super simple to use, and with a bit of html knowledge you can do just as much with it as with any of the other platforms. There’s also the obvious advantages of it being owned by Google. I did try using Wordpress for other blogs in the past but didn’t like it as much. I’m definitely team Blogger.


Erica Robyn
www.ericarobynreads.com

I use Wordpress for my blog now. I used to use Blogger and I absolutely loved it, but I wanted a change a short time ago. It took me a little while to figure things out, but now I’m absolutely loving the Wordpress platform! It allows me to do a lot more than the Blogger platform was set up for. Unfortunately in the switch, I did lose a bunch of followers… but my numbers are starting to slowly creep back up.


Leslie Conzatti 
www.upstreamwriter.blogspot.com

Obviously, according to my blog address, I use the Blogger platform. I started there because I didn’t care about having all the choices and decisions to make through a separate site like Wordpress or Wix. I enjoyed the fact that it was connected to my Google account, and there for several years I had GooglePlus where I could share my blog posts for extra visibility and join communities and attract comments… That’s not the case any longer, and with the ending of GooglePlus, I had to switch the commenting back, so a lot of the GooglePlus comment threads are now lost forever… but I am slowly getting used to the new Blogger Dashboard format, and I like the way I could take a given template and use things like my own photo (of an artwork print I saw… but I’m the one who took the photo!) and different color and font choices, to make it look personal and tidy. I like the interfacing, too, how easy it is to just cut/paste when I want to share snippets of my stories--the only trouble is, there are a few formatting things that I just plain do not know how to do, so when the formatting glitches, it takes me a while to get things back to the way I want them, and even then, sometimes I don’t succeed. But I still like it too much not to change to anything else at this point! Almost 800 posts is nothing to sneeze at!


Megan 
https://www.gingermomandcompany.com

When I first started blogging, I absolutely hated WordPress. I didn’t really understand how to use it so I switched over to Blogger. I enjoyed Blogger for the time I used it, but as soon as I started getting serious about blogging, I realized it no longer fit for me. I switched back to WordPress, absorbed as many tutorials as I could, and have since fallen in love with the platform. Once I took the leap to self-hosting, I was hooked on WordPress. I’ll never go back :) 



5 comments:

  1. Well done - I post on 2 blogs, neither one started by me, and one is Blogger and the other WordPress.

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  2. Blogger for Cats Luv Coffee Book Reviews and then girls at Wicked Cool Flight use WordPress so I've gotten to experience both.

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