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WordPress hosted on wordpress.com without any 3rd party plugins is pretty solid. But ghost might be a decent alternative. If you want to self-host, you might want to consider cmsmadesimple.org as an alternative to wordpress (it's also php, but as the name implies it's simple - it's more of a cms than wordpress - but in a good way - it's more sensible if you want to customise it).