If your also a member of  TheSITSGirls site you know that over the last few weeks they went through  huge change moving from the Blogger platform to Wordpress. Well to answer many inquires they put together a top 10 reason to move to Wordpress.

I tried Blogger for a few days when I first began blogging but was so frustrated with the limitations that I quickly moved to Wordpress. This is a great article if you’ve ever considered the switch or just wanted to know what all the Word Press fuss was about.

Enjoy!!!

Top 10 Reasons to Move to Wordpress

Since SITS changed blogging platforms from Blogger to Wordpress last week, I’ve received lots of tweets and emails asking, “Why?” Today I present to you the Top 10 Reasons to Move to Wordpress:

1. Plugins. There are hundreds of thousands of plugins (similar to gadgets/widgets) that enhance Wordpress. They are free and do all kinds of fun and useful things. You have already seen the “Comment Luv” and “TwitterLink” plugins in the comments here at SITS. There are plugins that share your content on social networking sites,  track clicks on outbound links, display a welcome message and ask visitors to subscribe to your blog, automatically tweet your posts, show the weather in your sidebar… ah, so much fun. If someone would give me a full time job testing plugins, I’d be in heaven. Plugins rock.
2. Thousands of theme options. You can find tons of beautiful free themes (designs) for your Wordpress blog. Just upload and activate.
3. Commenting is easier and better. Is anyone else really annoyed by the Blogger commenting system? There’s a pop-up window (sometimes two), then after you enter your comment you get that “are you sure you want to navigate away from this page?” alert. ARGH. With Wordpress, just enter your name, email, URL and comment. And you’ve got a link directly to your blog – not your Google/Blogger profile. Not to mention all the cool plugins you can install to give your commenters extra link love.
4. Static Pages. For permanent, important information such as advertising, policies, “about” or “contact” pages, you can set up “pages” on Wordpress, which are different than “posts.” Pages are easily linked in a navigation bar or sidebar widget instead of being buried in your post archives, so they are easier to access and edit. They also have simpler/more professional URLs.
5. Professionalism. If you have a product, store, or service, Wordpress is the way to go. You have more options in terms of organizing and categorizing your posts, pages and other content, as well as more options for your home page display. Wordpress can be set to show a featured post/image or a static page for your home page instead of a “list of posts.”
6. Spam control. .

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