The Best Blogging Platforms
By: Danish Jainuddin Desai
Tags: Blogging, Content, Platform, WordPress, Blogging Tips

With hundreds of thousands of blogs running on the internet today, it is important to find the best blogging platform for you. A blog platform’s primary role is to host a dynamic website where you can store your latest posts as well as allow users to publish their own content. Blog platforms also allows users to search for information and share videos, photos, links and other media. In this article, I will give you an overview of different options and which one is best for you.

To choose the best blogging platform for your online business, evaluate first how its features align with your internet goals and needs. If you just want to boost your online visibility, look for a blogging platform with built-in search engine optimization (SEO) tools. If your primary goal is on starting publishing visual content more often, you may focus more on finding a blog platform that supports various media sharing features such as photo, video, music and themes integration. WordPress, by far, is the best blogging platform for both these kinds of users. Not only it comes with powerful search engine optimization tools, but it also offers support for WordPress themes, video and photo galleries, social media marketing tools, RSS feeds and numerous plugins. It has a number of themes available as well, such as business theme, portfolio theme, etc.

There are two major pros and cons to each platform. The most obvious pros to WordPress are its extensive variety of themes, which you can use to customize the look of your site. There are hundreds of themes available and WordPress offer several free themes as well. This is perhaps the biggest drawback of WordPress, its limited range of themes. Another downside of WordPress is its limited security features, especially if your site contains PHP security plugins.

There are other highly popular blogging platforms available in the market today, such as TypePad, Dreamweaver, Drupal and WordPress. These platforms have their own advantages and disadvantages and they each have their own unique set of benefits and drawbacks. Some even claim that they are the best free blogging platforms available in the market today, although they come with limited features. Their biggest benefit though is that they are very easy to use, even for non-techies.

If we talk about the drawbacks of these best blogging platforms, they mostly come in the form of limited features. There is also the fact that they are not supported by Adobe technologies. The Pygments language that is used by WordPress, is not compatible with Python and so you will not be able to use any of its functions from Python. As far as blogging is concerned, you will not be able to create any interactive graphics using Pygments. It’s really a shame that not all bloggers love to use this platform because it’s quite difficult to use and doesn’t support some advanced functionalities that are necessary for blog posts and web pages.

If you are someone who is looking for a cost-effective blogging platform, I would highly recommend that you look out for the open source solutions like Joomla and Drupal. These platforms are highly stable and they are built-in with PHP and MySQL and are supported by all the major browsers. Even if you want to use a fully-featured add-on for your blog, you will not have to spend a single penny on it because these platforms are supported by every popular browser. These add-ons are built in an open source basis and that is why most people prefer them over the others. The best blogging platforms today have been built in PHP and Java and are built in such a way that you can easily integrate them with other popular open source applications.