> I'd argue that a WordPress site with the default template is less offensive at this point. I wholeheartedly agree. And for this reason, and many others, I'm

> I'd argue that a WordPress site with the default template is less offensive at this point. I wholeheartedly agree. And for this reason, and many others, I'm planning on setting up my personal website/blog using Wordpress. But as for the default template being "less offensive" than Medium, I'd like to do a little better than this. I've looked at other WP templates and I am happy to learn PHP and become a real WP developer just to make a good site (I'm already an experienced developer in other languages). I also get the impression that WP development is a highly transferable skill. I understand perfectly well that making a good, "minimalist" site takes a of expertise and effort. But I don't have the faintest where to being with this, as all my effort up until this point has been on the back end, data science computation, etc. Should I just start at the wordpress.{org,com} and follow my way from there? Is there some special resource that I should know about?