I have moved my blog over to use WordPress. I was using Astro static site blog engine before. It worked pretty well, but it felt too much like work to be enjoyable. I had to use Git to deploy the site when changes were made. I would make changes, manually type the markdown, then create PRs to merge into the main branch. CloudFlare workers would then pick it up and build, then deploy the site. It was all “free” since I use them as a domain registrar.
WordPress is a bit more to my liking. I like that I can just open the WYSIWYG editor to create a new post. Adding images is a breeze, and I can even upload 4k videos.
There were some sacrifices with some content that didn’t migrate over well. I had to run a script to convert my markdown pages to XML that WordPress could use in a site import step.
Myy custom app pages are working (Battlefront Valkyrie utilities, Hookpad -> SystemVerilog song convertor, etc.)
At some point, I’d like to develop a custom theme to capture some ideas I have. The site that I want to create is from an incarnation of my blog back in 2005-2006. I just need to track down the clipart books that I used and scan in the images.