I worked with WordPress professionally a bit. Personally, I hope to never have to touch it again. WordPress is designed as a sort of self-hosted SquareSpace. S

I worked with WordPress professionally a bit. Personally, I hope to never have to touch it again. WordPress is designed as a sort of self-hosted SquareSpace. Set it and forget it. The coding style follows this idea by being a huge pile of spaghetti code with no enforced software pattern. The plugins library, while extensive, also follows this philosophy by leaving everything up to the plugin developers. So you end up having a pile of noodles overridden randomly by an SEO plugin that overrides the WordPress dashboard with what I can only describe as a "professional" ransomware prompt if you let the mandatory support license lapse (mandatory being that the plugin is supposedly GPL'd, but impossible to use without a paid license key). And, on top of all this, since it's supposed to be like SquareSpace, the kinds of people who usually use WordPress are the kinds of people who know nothing about technology and constantly look for ways to get functionality cheaply. As far as personal blogs go, Medium has been looking somewhat nice these days as a public diary of sorts. If you want more control over how your content is used, then you might want to consider either Jekyll or static HTML/CSS in a creative Apache setup.