Why Are Bloggers Leaving WordPress.com To Publish Elsewhere?

I have noticed an interesting trend; it has to do with WordPress bloggers going elsewhere to blog.

Is WordPress really that bad?

If you have been plagued by technical issues and have been given the runaround by the Happiness Engineers, you would say, “Yes, WordPress is bad. It has gone to the dogs.”

And, if things have been peachy for you on WordPress, you are more inclined to say, “WordPress is not bad at all. It is a wonderful blogging platform.”

So, it all depends on which WordPress blogger you ask.

If their experience of using WordPress has been a bad one, they will most likely have negative things to say about WordPress.

Whereas, if their experience of using WordPress was a wonderful one, they would have positive things to say about WordPress.

The biggest irony is that those two types of bloggers (the ones who had a negative experience with WordPress as well as the ones who had a positive experience with WordPress), switched to another publishing platform.

So, today, I am going to explore the reasons for their departure from WordPress.

Going Down The Blogging Rabbit Hole

If you are one of those people who have chosen to start a blog of their own, you have made up your mind to go down the blogging rabbit hole.

In my case, I started going down the blogging rabbit hole when I joined Blogger (also known as Blogspot) back in 2008.

Today, I am having the time of my life on WordPress and I am still going down the blogging rabbit hole.

This so-called, “Blogging rabbit hole,” is an analogy for one’s never-ending lessons in the area of blogging. If you are honest with yourself, you would know off the bat that there is always something new that you could always learn about blogging.

As experienced as I am, I am still learning (And, from the looks of things, I will always be learning once I am involved in the content creation process).