Blogger versus Wordpress: A Battle of Widgets? Part II

This post is the follow-up of the Blogger versus Wordpress: A Battle of Widgets? Part I", stupidly obvious, isn’t it?:)

After the publication of my previous post upon the battle between the two main Blog platforms on the Internet, there happened some important changes in the Blogger’s perspective on commenting. They introduced the open-ID option for commenters.

To put it plainly, this means that the readers of a Blogger (blogspot) Blog can leave authenticated comments on the blog using their blog URLs from OpenID-enabled services such as WordPress.com, LiveJournal, and AOL Journals, or with their AOL/AIM accounts.

Those who do not know how to turn OpenID on the blogger (blogspot) blog should do it right now. It’s is as easier as making the instant reasoning that always is a Part I followed by Part II:D.

So, if you've set "Who Can Comment?" to "Anyone," OpenID will be enabled on your comments pages right away. If you haven’t, then you should go to your blog's Settings | Comments tab in Blogger (blogspot), and select "Registered Users" or "Anyone" in the Who Can Comment setting:

Along with the OpenID option, Blogger (blogspot) has recently announced that unregistered commenters can provide an auto-linked URL. A bug they have repaired after some postponing.

The Blogger (team) end up 2007 on a very optimistic tone with an enumeration of their achievements after taking over the new version of Blogger out of beta.

Here's a quick run-down of many of the fun things we did since then:

• Domain association and purchasing
• Hindi transliteration
• Blogger Photos in Picasa Web Albums
• 26 new languages
• widgets: Videobar, Newsreel, Header Images, Polls, Search Box, Google Gadgets, Slideshow, Subscriptions Links
• 1000th Blog of Note
• Old Blogger shut down, New Blogger for all, and Blogger's 8th birthday
• Autosave
• Profile Search
• Blogger in Draft
• Video Upload
• Feed Enclosures and Redirects
• Blogger Play
• Comments: Subscribe via Email, OpenID


Yet, there are some vital widgets that those from Blogger (blogspot) did not introduce. The ones I enumerated in the "Blogger versus Wordpress: A Battle of Widgets? Part I":

1. Recent comments.
2. Top commentators.
3. Recent posts.
4. Most popular posts.
5. List of related posts after every post.
6. Label cloud.

Although, I added there some hacks for these bugs, yet, I am not satisfied with it. Wordpress, I’m coming!!!!