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My advice would be to stick with WordPress, and you will see benefits of it as you continue blogging. I started out with Blogger, and quickly "grew out of it", so to speak - the templates wouldn't do what I wanted, I didn't care for the blogspot.com address (which, admittedly, one can rectify if they so wish) - it just didn't behave how I wanted.

I switched to WordPress and have never looked back. I like the template system, and the plugins for it are great.

In what way do you find Blogger to be more intuitive than WordPress? Certainly WordPress has more otions under the hood, but I find it all to be pretty straight forward.

I definitely recommend WordPress for its ease of use (in my opinion). I have a WordPress blog, and I also use it for my own domains.

I used Blogger for a number of years. But when I decided to start blogging again this summer, I opted for WordPress. It's worked very well for me, does just about everything I want to do, as well as better than it should.

A few weeks ago, on a whim, I went back and played around with Blogger and found it really lacking. It has some new and interesting features--I was surprised how easy it was to set up and customize sidebar elements, for example. But overall, as Josh suggested, it felt constrictive, and not nearly as customizable as WordPress.

WordPress's customizability can be daunting at first. Sometimes you want to make a seemingly minor change and you'll have to find install a plugin to mimic something that's easier done on Blogger. I don't really mind that, so I still like WordPress. If you find that really daunting--and don't mind Blogger's issues, I could definitely see why you regret the switch.

I use both, and I have to say the biggest advantage WordPress has going for it is the open source community that supports it. The disparity in the number of available themes is the perfect example... there are thousands of great WordPress themes out there, while it can be quite difficult to find a decent Blogger template (especially if you're looking for something specific).

Google is slowly working its other products into Blogger (Feedburner, AdSense, etc.), but it could move a lot faster... and it will probably only fall further behind now that WordPress is releasing new updates on a very regular basis.

I agree with davidhayes... WP can be a bit daunting at first, but I think you'll quickly find that, no matter what you're looking for, there's someone out there that will answer a question or direct you toward the plug-in you need.

You have definitely cleared up my problem. I have not found all the features yet! Some of you mentioned the plugins, and "thousands" of themes.

How can I find those? I have been restricted to the few wordpress offered at the outset.

Any favorite sources for additions?

Thanks again.

I don't know what version of WordPress you have, they have just updated and I haven't done that yet, but in your dashboard at the bottom they have little blips daily about new plug-ins and themes. The ones they are now listing I assume work with the newest version. There are probably very few plug-ins you actually need although everyone has their favorites.

Many site have lists of the best wordpress plugins, I'm sure if you googled "the best wordpress plugins" or "must have wordpress" plug-ins you would come up with some info to sift through.
"Lorelle", I'm sure has a list.
If you go to WordPress dot org you should be able to search the list of plugins which work with your version.

My only necessary plugins are the "srg clean archives", "categorical links", "data base back up", "contact form", "comment time out", "smart comment" plug-in, and "flickr rss" and "digital fingerprint".

wordpress platform is better , has more options