Thing is, I prefer using an SSG for my blog, but I’ve been posting using WordPress over at baty.blog for a few reasons:
- I sometimes like a change of venue
- I like the Twenty Twenty Five theme
- It’s nice having built-in comments and analytics
- If I wanted to change themes, it’s just a few clicks
- Dragging images into the editor is so easy
- Anything I might want to do is probably available as a plugin
But still, I would rather use an SSG like Hugo.
Instead of switching to WordPress, I think I would be OK if I had a new theme. Something with the following attributes:
- Full posts on home page, with the option to use
<!-- more -->or whatever for extra-long posts. - No dependency on featured images in order for it to look good. I’ll add an image to the post if I want one.
- Need to pin the daily post each day.
Honestly, if I could find a theme that worked and looked like the Twenty Twenty Five theme but it was for, say, Jekyll, I’d consider switching to Jekyll. I just want to look at my blog and think, “Aah, that’s nice”. Currently, I don’t.
I thought about firing up Claude Code and having it help me, but I really don’t want to build and support my own theme.