People have been writing "Wordpress replacements" forever. Writing a new blog engine is practically a rite of passage for a web developer; the problem is that n

People have been writing "Wordpress replacements" forever. Writing a new blog engine is practically a rite of passage for a web developer; the problem is that nobody has yet produced one which is as easy to deploy, configure, and maintain. Even if they did manage to, they'd have a massive amount of momentum to overcome in the form of the theme and plugin communities; there is so much turnkey extensibility available (for better or worse) that it comes with an awful lot of end-user value baked in out of the box. Wordpress is slow, and its plugin/theme architecture breeds security holes like nobody's business, but that doesn't matter to your average user who does 90 pageviews/month and doesn't care about security until they actually get attacked.