Free Hosted Blogger vs Free Hosted WordPress

With a Free WordPress account, and if you have no plans to go to paid version. You're going to choke yourself with the limited themes present in store for you. A big No to small time bloggers who dont want to pay for a self hosted blog, and those who want to tweak the WordPress theme. In this Battle of Free Blogger vs Free WordPress Blogger steals the match with a no game from WordPress. Almost all third party Premium WordPress themes like Thesis, Revolution, Arthemia (and many others) which cannot be used on a Free WordPress account, whereas can be easily set up on a FreeBlogger account within seconds.

Themes and Customization

Blogger Allows you to install Third Party templates you can also edit templates, styles and colors, do practically everything with a .blogspot account.

WordPress users are allowed to edit the template. Editing the style sheet is only available with a paid upgrade.

Statistics from visitors

Blogger - No built-in statistics, but you can use free scripts to track your visitors, page views, etc.
WordPress- No third party scripts. The admin panel shows all the stats.

Image Storage

1 Gigabyte. There is no interface to browse the images, unless you sign up for Picasa Web Albums which is a little frustrating.
3 Gigabytes. Upgrades are available for paid.

Static Pages
Blogger - No Static Pages yet, contact forms etc have to be embed in a blog post which acts as a virtual static page. But Blogger Doesn;t have static pages yet.
WordPress- Allows Static pages.



Self Hosted WordPress Power!

If you're a serious blogger, who has given up your daily job to become a professional blogger, and you are willing to pay some extra money for hosting charges etc... Then Blogger isn't the best platform to you. WordPress as a powerful CMS, outclasses blogger in that aspect. So since Free Blogger VS Free Hosted WordPress was won by Blogger by a pretty good margin. Self hosted WordPress is the ultimate way to go blogging. No Debate on the topic that if its Self hosted WP then Blogger has no chance to stand against it.

So The Winner of this Round is WordPress. But, Blogger if coded in a brillliant way can be matched up to Self Hosted WordPress themes. For example, Chethstudios.net isn't a WordPress blog. But it runs a beautiful WordPress theme. Some designers are conecentrating more on converting WordPress themes to Blogger templates. Lets wait for one year and have a Rematch and see who Wins. Until then you can please go and ask the blogger team to prepare for the battle.