IMO Wordpress has grown to include something for everybody. It irks me a bit when people say it is feature heavy for simple blogging. You write a blog post and

IMO Wordpress has grown to include something for everybody. It irks me a bit when people say it is feature heavy for simple blogging. You write a blog post and publish it to the web. Yes, you can do just that and ignore the other features. It is easily stretchable in the future when you decide to do more with it.