8 Best Blogging Platforms Reviewed (Updated)

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WordPress

WordPress.com has paid upgrades. Own domain for WordPress.com is a paid upgrade. There are no plugins on WordPress.com, but most of the extra functionality is built right in (like contact forms, video support and slideshows). Storage is 3GB for free, but you can add with upgrades. Updates are automatic and transparent to the user. Updates on self-hosted WordPress can also be automatic with a plugin. The hosted solution is also called WordPress.com, not WordPress. WordPress refers to the open source software available from WordPress.org. I know it’s confusing…

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Blogger

is there a way to use Blogger on your own website? If not, and you don’t want any ads on your blog (I’m not trying to make money) is Blogger an option? If you don’t have to pay not to have ads, like you do with WordPress, what’s in it for Blogger to let you have all that space for free? What’s the catch?

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3

Tumblr

Tumblr is a great free blog site optimized specifically for bloggers who want to publish short-form content, such as micro-blogs, quotes, images, videos, and animated GIFs. Tumblr is also a community of users, ready to promote and comment on each other’s work.

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4

Medium

In the end, Medium is great if you want to publish individual stories that aren’t necessarily related. Medium helps spread your content by using custom algorithms as well as editorial curation. If you just want to “experiment with this blogging thing,” Medium is the way to do it.

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5

Ghost

Do you get your own domain? No, you don’t get a domain with your plan, but you can hook up an external domain easily.Any prior skills required? The answer’s two-fold here. If you’re getting the downloadable version then setting up your site will take some time and skill around web servers and such. For Ghost Pro, the setup is quite simple. Using the platform on a daily basis is very easy to grasp too, although the interface is a bit “geeky” – with the Markdown split-screen support and all.

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6

SquareSpace

Squarespace is a really good all-in-one website building solution. You can use it to launch blogs, businesses, e-commerce stores, and much more. Fun fact, Squarespace is the only platform on this list that invested in a Super Bowl ad (twice).

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WiX

Any prior skills required? Wix is very easy to use when it comes to launching a new website. However, you do need to go through a couple of additional steps to add the blog module. Nothing too difficult but still. Overall, Wix gives you a step-by-step wizard to get through the whole process.

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