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Blogger vs Wix

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When comparing Blogger vs Wix, the Slant community recommends Blogger for most people. In the question“What are the best solutions for a personal blog?” Blogger is ranked 19th while Wix is ranked 20th. The most important reason people chose Blogger is:

You can turn on ads if you want, but you can also keep your Blogger blog ad-free. That is different from WordPress.com (free hosted WordPress) where there are ads, and you cannot do anything about it.

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Pros

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No ads

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Free

hosted by google

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Javascript friendly

You can include Javascript snippets and widgets (like Pinterest widgets for example) in posts and in sidebar items. This makes it very different from WordPress.com (free hosted WordPress) which does not allow javascript plugins.

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Every Google account has one

If you have a Google account from any other of their services, such as Gmail, Youtube or Google+, you automatically have a Blogger account as well.

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Supports multiple authors

Multiple people can contribute to a single blog.

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Custom domain support

You can use either your own URL or a *.blogspot.com URL.

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API

The Blogger API allows you to publish and manage your content via a custom client app

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Allows custom advertisements

Such as project wonderful, or just google adsense,. so you can make money from your blog.

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Android and iOS mobile apps

Allows viewing and editing content from your mobile device.

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Analytics integration

There's very basic analytics, but you can upgrade if needed.

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Functionality can be extended with community plug-ins

Wix has an add-on store, called the App Market, that includes community developed bits of functionality (such as comments, calendars and integrations with third-party services) that you can add to your site. The store includes both free and paid add-ons.

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Straightforward drag & drop interface

There's a selection of elements you can choose from in the sidebar that you can drag and drop into the page and edit. There are common elements such as text, images and buttons as well as less common elements such as blog or online store. All elements can be adjusted to some extent to fit your needs. For example, you can change things like the font, weight and style of text and even crop, adjust colors and apply filters to images.

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Personalized templates

Wix comes with various kinds of templates based on the users genre and needs, ranging from personal, blog, club, portfolio to commercial.

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Wix Code lets you add custom code and backends to your WYSIWYG site when needed

This means you can add custom interactions and API's to your site when needed, but do most of the editing in a GUI. This helps you avoid the need to redo an entire site if you need custom interactions. Also dead easy to connect a database and have dynamic components based on CMS updates.

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Great support

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Cons

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Bad post editor

It is a WYSIWYG html editor, and it would be a bit better if it used <p> tags. Instead it uses divs and brs everywhere, which leads to inconsistent or just crappy typography and spacing.

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Limited authorization system

Sadly the authorization system is fairly limited. Co authors can post and publish, without you getting a chance to pre-check their posts as an admin. e.g. you can't give them "create" and not give them "publish" permissions. They can only edit their own posts however.