I did this and all is well. In terms of maintenance it can save you tons of time. For having to reset database server or doing migrations. In terms of SEO you

I did this and all is well. In terms of maintenance it can save you tons of time. For having to reset database server or doing migrations. In terms of SEO you need to be very careful. WP does a lot of things right like canonical links, sitemaps and what not. You can have comments on a static blog. I use static comments, I hacked together this solution: https://bsdnerds.org/comments-static-site/ https://bsdnerds.org/comments-static-site/ But dynamic are possible with isso, disquz, and others for a few bucks. Search is possible with some JS fiddling. I have no idea about RSS. The magic keyword is “Jamstack”. You can do all dynamic parts with JavaScript and APIs Just pick the generator wisely. I had quite a few annoyances with Hexo but I’m to lazy to convert to something else. Pelican seems quite good and Jekyll and Hugo have everything, but my Ruby and Go skills are rusty. Overall it can save you many hours of time compared to wordpress. Plus you can use vim (or your favorite editor), plus less attack surface, plus can be decentralized so a lot faster. Google doesnt seem to care to much about speed, but the other benefits are worth it for me