Goodbye WordPress, hello Pure Blog !

Back in February, I discovered Pure Blog, and it has stayed in a corner of my head since then. A few days ago, I installed it locally and gave it a try. Long story short: I spent most of my free time during the last ten days or so migrating my content and porting/adapting my custom WordPress plugins. This morning, I finally pulled the trigger, five months after that idea crossed my mind and a seed was planted. Cafélog is now powered by Pure Blog. Why Pure Blog? Well, in the past I already tried to move away from WordPress to a homemade static website, which turned out to be a nightmare to use. So I went back to WordPress a few months later. I wrote about that, in French though, in these two articles: À la recherche du web perdu (March 2025) De retour sur WordPress (July 2025) In a few words: In March 2025, I left WordPress for a homemade static site, drawn by the idea of simplicity, control, and reconnecting with the raw, hands-on web I grew up with. Building it was genuinely…