WordPress has a pretty involved dashboard, including many abbreviated versions of other features such as posts, comments, stats, etc.
Blogger has recently upgraded their dashboard to include many of the features found in WordPress, but it's simpler and cleaner.
Tumblr's dashboard has a couple of views. One view consists of the Tumblr blogs you choose to follow and the other only contains your content. Both views offer posting options that are fast and easy to find. However, only the dash for one's specific blog offers detailed information on that blog.
Posts
Wordpress's posts menu provides ways to organize and change publishing settings for posts easily. It's editor interface has always been fairly comprehensive, but its new design is simpler and easier to read. Options for posting include using categories and tags as well as scheduling posts for future publication.
Blogger once again keeps things simple, emulating the look and feel of other Google Apps. The editor is extremely uncluttered and clean in design. The move to place options to the side has made setting up publishing preferences even easier.
Tumblr takes simplicity to the extreme. Every post is a short scroll away. Tumblr offers several different types of editors, depending on the nature of the post. Tumblr's posting setup suggests that shorter, more frequent posting is the most useful way to use this tool.
Pages
WordPress was one of the first blogging services to offer a pages option. Think of pages as a single blog post page that links to the homepage of the blog. It's a great place to post static content or organize a blog's posts. Blogger has recently added pages to its repertoire. Its pages are setup similarly to that of WordPress, but, yet again, the options for publishing are much simpler. Tumblr has also added this option, but users must access this option via the "Customize Appearance" option in the main blog menu. Comments WordPress provides a listing of comments as they arrive in chronological order. From this menu, users can edit, respond, or trash comments. Comments can also be sent to users via email and require various levels of permission to post.
Blogger also offers a running list of comments with options.
WordPress offers a wide array of themes and layouts. The appearance of banners and sidebars can also be adjusted to meet user needs.
Blogger has some templates as well. Their layout tool offers more options for adding and moving components to a blog's appearance.
Tumblr keeps it simplest of the three and offers a large number of options, both free and otherwise, for templates. Tumblr, of three services, focuses more on the content of individual posts. So, the layouts and designs are simplest.
Settings
WordPress offers a huge list of setting options such as general, writing, reading, discussion, media, privacy, sharing, polls/ratings, domains, email post changes, text messaging, Open ID, and webhooks.
Again, Blogger offers the most basic of options and those options are simplified for users.
Tumblr barely offers any settings, but this keeps users from making too many unnecessary changes.
What are some other features I missed? What are your questions about the features presented?
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