I'll give another nod to Mezzanine, which is quite simply "really good". Another great alternative is Hyde, which is admittedly more "Jekyll" than Wordpress (t

I'll give another nod to Mezzanine, which is quite simply "really good". Another great alternative is Hyde, which is admittedly more "Jekyll" than Wordpress (the name is not an accident), but is a drop-dead simple way to build static-paged blogs that scale (as all static pages do.)