Unless you genuinely need to manage a database, fight with plugins, and babysit a server for your blog. In which case, enjoy your weekend.
This is a public service announcement for founders, marketers, and developers who are still running WordPress in 2025 and wondering why their blog loads like it's being served from a fax machine.
"It's the industry standard."
Congratulations: you've committed to monthly security patches, plugin conflicts, database optimization, hosting headaches, and a CMS that was designed when "responsive" meant answering your phone.
"I'll just build my own."
Congratulations: you've spent three months building a markdown parser instead of writing content. Your "simple blog" now has 47 dependencies and a build process that breaks every Tuesday.
Built-in Lead Generation. Capture emails without installing yet another plugin. Pop-ups, inline forms, gated content — all native. No Mailchimp plugin conflicts. No JavaScript bloat.
Automatic JSON-LD Schemas. Structured data that search engines actually understand. Article schema, FAQ schema, breadcrumbs — generated automatically. No Yoast. No RankMath. No $299/year "premium" SEO plugins.
Security by Architecture. No database to SQL inject. No PHP to exploit. No admin panel to brute force. Static files served from a CDN. The attack surface is literally zero.
Subdirectory Hosting. Host your blog at yourdomain.com/blog instead of blog.yourdomain.com. Keep your domain authority. No reverse proxy hacks. No nginx configs. Just works.
Because WordPress was brilliant in 2005. It's . You're running a 20-year-old PHP application with 60,000+ known vulnerabilities in its plugin ecosystem, and you're pretending this is fine.
The WordPress reality:
Hosting costs. Security updates. Backup plugins. Caching plugins. SEO plugins. Image optimization plugins. Plugins to manage your plugins. A database that needs regular maintenance. A server that needs babysitting. All to publish text on the internet.
Your content is pre-rendered and served from edge locations worldwide. No database queries. No PHP execution. No attack surface. Just HTML delivered at the speed of light.
"I need custom functionality."
You need a blog that loads fast and ranks well. You don't need to rebuild Medium from scratch. Ship content, not infrastructure.
"WordPress has more features."
WordPress has more plugins. Most of which you'll never use, several of which conflict with each other, and a few of which have security vulnerabilities that will be exploited before you finish reading this sentence.
"What if I need to migrate later?"
Your content is yours. Export it anytime. Unlike the tangled mess of shortcodes and plugin-specific markup you'd be extracting from WordPress.
The real issue isn't Superblog vs WordPress vs Ghost vs whatever.
The real issue is that you've been conditioned to believe that publishing a blog requires a complex stack, ongoing maintenance, and technical expertise.
It doesn't.
Write. Publish. Let the platform handle the rest. That's it. That's the entire philosophy.
Stop configuring. Stop debugging. Stop procrastinating with infrastructure decisions. Start publishing content that actually matters.
Start your blog →