Have you considered using ghost blog? There are some free themes out there: http://marketplace.ghost.org/themes/free/ http://marketplace.ghost.org/themes/free/

Have you considered using ghost blog? There are some free themes out there: http://marketplace.ghost.org/themes/free/ http://marketplace.ghost.org/themes/free/ Personally, I've migrated my blog from WordPress to Ghost and never looked back. Ghost is very lightweight when you compare it to WordPress and it's free. If you like simplicity you should try it out. It has support for markdown syntax and all of your posts are stored inside single file (SQL-lite db).