Blogger to WordPress Combination
Blogger and WordPress are content management systems that allow individuals and organizations to publish blogs and websites. Blogger and WordPress offer hosted solutions, where you can sign up for an account and access all the tools you need through your Web browser. There is also a software version of WordPress, available as open-source software, that allows you to customize your Web content to a far greater degree than either hosted option.
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Blogger
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Blogger emerged in 1999 as one of the earliest blog publishing platforms, created by Pyra Labs, and was purchased by Google in 2003. Blogger is known by a variety of other names, including blogspot.com and Google Blogs. It is a hosted publishing platform, with content residing on Google servers, although you can use custom URLs for your blog website. Google has imposed certain limits on the total size of pages and pictures that can be published. The features available to publishers are also limited. Google does allow selected Blogger publishers to place ads and collect revenues through AdSense.
WordPress
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WordPress refers to two separate entities. There is the WordPress.com hosted blogging service, very similar to Google's Blogger. There is also an open-source content management system (CMS) available through WordPress.org. The hosted service is limited in capacity and in other ways. You cannot install custom themes or customize your CSS with a free entry-level account. You also cannot place any advertisements on your blog. The WordPress.org CMS is limited only by your technical knowledge.
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Themes and Templates
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Both Blogger and WordPress allow the user to customize the layout of their content through the use of cascading style sheets (CSS). Keep in mind that WordPress.com-hosted blogs limit CSS customization and themes to paid accounts, while the WordPress.org CMS has no such limitations. In Blogger, these custom layouts are known as templates, whereas WordPress refers to them as themes. A variety of WordPress themes have been converted for Blogger. If you implement such a crossover theme, any later migration will be smoother since all the page elements will remain constant. If you have installed a custom template in Blogger, research to see if it is available within WordPress.
Widgets and Plugins
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Widgets and plug-ins are add-ons that allow you to display a wide variety of information through your blog. A self-hosted blog using the WordPress.org CMS offers the widest degree of options. Not only do you have contributions from other developers available, but you can write or customize existing code, with the necessary knowledge of PHP, CSS and HTML. The hosted platforms of Blogger and WordPress.com limit the available widgets to a select few. As the list is constantly changing, consult the latest available documentation on these sites for a current list of add-on features.
URL Structure
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Blogger limits your URLs to a single style. It takes the form of "http://your-blog.tld/yyyy/mm/post-name," where yyyy is the current year and mm is the current month. Using either the hosted or CMS version of WordPress, you have a greater latitude to construct URLs for your site. This is important if you wish to take into account search engine optimization (SEO), as a well-formed URL will perform better in search engine results. The contents of the URL can convey meaning to a search engine. For example, "http://your-blog.tld/category/tag/post-name" can improve your SEO, if category and tag are optimized keywords.
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