Best Blogging Platforms | Comparisons of its

Best Blogging Platform you should know before starting your Blog/Blogging Platforms:

Let we take a look at the top blogging platforms here, and giving you to introduce with them. so let's go through below:

1.Wordpress.org(Self-Hosted):

                Downloadable blogging (and website management) software, as well as the most popular blogging platform out there. WordPress is the most popular blogging platform of them all, currently powering more than 25 percent of the entire web.

Wordpress perfect for:

• Bloggers who want to make money on top of their blog.
• Bloggers who want to make the blog a part of their business.
• Professional bloggers.
• Hobby bloggers who want to have control over everything.

Pros and Cons:

• The most popular such platform on the web.
• Massive number of designs available.
• Massive number of plugins available.
• Great community – you will always find someone to help you out with a challenge.
•  – No hosting included.
•  – Somewhat of a learning curve if you’re just getting started.
•  – Setting up your site to suit your needs perfectly can take several hours.

2. Wordpress.com(online):

                WordPress.com is a hosted version of WordPress. This means that instead of having to download the software and install it yourself, all you need to do is sign up for an account at WordPress.com, and you can start blogging in a matter of minutes.

Wordpress perfect for:

• Hobby bloggers.
• Anyone who wants to start a blog with no investment at all.
• Professional bloggers.
• Overall, WordPress.com is a simplified version of self-hosted WordPress. It delivers all of the most essential features but also leaves a big chunk of them out. If you care only about blogging and don’t want to experiment with your site’s custom features then WordPress.com is going to be sufficient for you.

Pros and Cons:

• Get started in minutes.
• Hosting and subdomain included.
• You can use it for $0.
• – No possibility to install custom themes.
• – No plugins.
• – WordPress.com can pull the plug on your blog at any time if they find your actions, not in tune with their rules.

3.Blogger.com:

                Blogger is one of the oldest blogging platforms out there. Currently, it’s run by Google, so all you need to sign up is your standard Google account. Similarly to WordPress.com, Blogger takes care of all the technical heavy lifting, allowing you to just focus on creating content.

Blogger.com perfect for:

• Hobby bloggers and personal blogs.

Pros and Cons:

• You can get a blog started in under a minute.
• Simple interface for Content Creation.
• Hoating and Subdomains included in this.

4.Tumblr:

                A hip microblogging hosted platform with a social network aspect. Tumblr is a great blogging platform 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.

Tumblr perfect for:

• Hobby bloggers.
• One-topic blogs.
• Microblogs.
• Blogs publishing different types of content (quotes, posts, images, videos, etc.)
• Tumblr is the blogging platform for you if you’re not planning to turn your blog into a business project, or if you don’t care about advanced features and extensions. Great solution for small blogs with not a lot of content and irregular posting schedule.

Pros and Cons:

• Community aspect – Tumblr is a social network as much as it is a blogging platform.
• Free.
• Hosting and subdomain included.
• User interface that’s ultra easy to use.
• Built-in styles for various types of content.
• – No extensions or plugins.
• – Limited features compared to the other platforms on this list.

5. Medium:

                A publishing platform for your blog posts, stories and articles. Medium has grown in popularity a lot during the last couple of years (more than a million people have joined Medium). In short, it’s a community of writers and bloggers, all using the same looking site design to share their opinions and stories on various topics.

Medium perfect for:

• Writers looking to build their brand. Medium is great to get instant readership for your stories.
• Hobby bloggers.
• Company blogs hosted outside of the company’s website.
• 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.

Pros and Cons:

• Very easy-to-use interface.
• Other users can help you work on your content.
• Free.
• Great typography settings.
• – No custom designs. Everyone’s profile looks the same.
• – Medium has control over your publications.

6. Ghost:

                Downloadable blogging software, and a hosted blogging platform. The main idea behind Ghost was to make it a simpler version of WordPress … something that would be just a blogging platform, without all the advanced content management features that have been introduced in WordPress recently.

Ghost perfect for:

• Bloggers who want to use the newest and freshest technical solutions available.
• Hobby bloggers passionate about web development.
• Bloggers who like to experiment with new platforms.
• With all of the Ghost’s awesomeness, it’s still not the best platform to build a pro-blog or a business blog with. It lacks some important features and is more of a beta project overall.

Pros and Cons:

• Designed as a blogging platform above all else.
• Very clear writing and publishing interface.
• Fast, and optimized for SEO.
• – Not as customizable as WordPress.
• – No plugins or extensibility available.

7. Squarespace:

                User-friendly online website builder and website hosting service. Squarespace is one of the best all-in-one website building solutions out there. You can use it to launch blogs, business sites, e-commerce stores, and much more. Fun fact, Squarespace is the only platform on this list that invested in a Super Bowl ad (twice).

Squarespace perfect for:

• Business owners who need a great-looking and optimized website, and a blog to go alongside.
• Artists, musicians, photographers, creatives in general who want to blog and also showcase their work in an effective way.
• Restaurants, cafes, etc., running a company blog.
• Users with no design skills who want to be able to build a blog from scratch on their own.
• Overall, it’s potentially the best all-in-one solution for anyone who wants to build a professional looking website or blog all on their own. No design skills are required, and the whole process is very straightforward.That being said, if all you need is a blog – without the additional stuff – then there are more suitable solutions out there.

Pros and Cons:

• Great customization capabilities and easy to use interface.
• Hosting and custom domain included.
• No design or development skills required.
• Drag-and-drop content building.
• 24/7 customer support.
• – Can get expensive over time when we add up the monthly subscription costs.
• – (This will sound strange) Too feature-rich if all you need is a simple blog.

8.Wix:

                User-friendly online website builder and website hosting service. To say this simply, Wix is basically like Squarespace, but different. It offers similar features in terms of its website-building and blog-building ability, but the execution is a slightly different style.

Wix perfect for:

• Quite similarly to Squarespace, business owners who need a great-looking and optimized website, and a blog to go alongside.
• Users with no design skills who want to be able to build a blog from scratch on their own.
• Artists, musicians, photographers, creatives in general who want to blog and also showcase their work in an effective manner.
• Wix is an interesting alternative to Squarespace, especially for users who don’t have a budget to invest and would like to keep things free. That being said, the blog module isn’t that configurable. So if what you want most of all is a blog, you’re better off with another platform.

Pros and Cons:

• More than 500 designs to choose from.
• Free plan available.
• Drag-and-drop content building.
• Great support, plus an online knowledge base.
• – Limited blog customization possibilities, especially compared to other solutions on the list.
• – Not a dedicated blogging platform.

Here, comparison of above blogger platforms given below

[Best Platforms are available to make a Blog]

* hosting included for pro; no hosting for open source.

** depending on the specific design you choose.

*** you get a subdomain; you can hook up your custom domain as well.