There's an obvious actual alternative to WordPress that's missing here: Dotclear. When I say "actual alternative" I mean a web based blog engine rather than som

There's an obvious actual alternative to WordPress that's missing here: Dotclear. When I say "actual alternative" I mean a web based blog engine rather than something entirely different like a static site generator that transpile markdown files into HTML web page and an RSS feed from the command line that you then have to rsync to your server or make use of the continuous integration service of a software forge to rebuild on the server side. I'm not saying this is a bad workflow, just that I don't feel it really counts as an alternative to WordPress for most people (you know, non-technical people). I ended up using Dotclear for my own personal blog after years of using home-made blog engines. By default, I was going for WordPress initially, but configuring it and creating a custom theme that looked like I wanted it to look like was a mess. I felt like I had to learn a whole new technology stack instead of being able to use my PHP, HTML, and CSS skills. In comparison, Dotclear was a breeze to work with, and after days scratching my head on the complexity of WordPress, it took me maybe like two hours to get where I wanted with Dotclear, including the time to discover and installing the software. I enjoy it very much since then! See https://dotclear.org/ https://dotclear.org/ for more information. Anecdoticaly, Dotclear is older than WordPress (2002 vs 2003) :).