Why I Left WordPress for BearBlog

Or: How I Bought Myself Some Digital Immortality This is a re-edited version of a post that first ran here in October 2025. I’ve just migrated this entire site from WordPress to BearBlog. All 70 posts, every image, every internal link. It took days of work, a DNS switchover that made me nervous, and one epic late-night session where I said “bedtime” and then stayed up fixing links for another few hours instead. Was it worth it? Absolutely. Let me be clear from the start: Cloudways, my hosting provider, was fine. About $15 a month for 1GB of space and an email address. Fast, reliable, no complaints once I’d got it set up. The problem wasn’t the host. The problem was WordPress itself. WordPress is bloated. It’s slow. It’s complicated. It tries to be everything to everyone: a blog, an e-commerce platform, a membership site, a portfolio, a forum, a bloody spaceship if you install the right plugins. For someone who just wants to write stories and publish them on the internet, it’s like…