Just decided to start a public personal blog again. So took five different software solutions and spend two days to test them all here is my experience.

I tested FB Pages, Blogger, Ghost, Wordpress and finally ended up using my favorite wiki software ..

Ghost or how can someone develop such crap ;) ?

https://ghost.org/ is the Homepage of this software. It is developed with Nodejs, and imho just crap .. cheers just kidding. no it is a decent software which is missing tons of features. Enough for newbies (but it is actually not too easy to setup for a newbie). After installing it .. which requires you use an old version of Nodejs you can publish articles on the web .. with a nice design and some beautiful layout .. that is it. No search, no content info, bad documentation included .. wth .. NO SEARCH .. is a killing point for me .. how can any decent developer code such stuff? There is a search based on the Ghost Api .. on GitHub but it is overaged and crappy. Anyway there is some software that makes editing life easier .. still if you do not host it yourself, their pricing is very steep .. imho DO NOT USE IT FOR THE NEXT 2-3 YEARS :P ..

**WordPress* the monster …

Wordpress is not a blog software any more. It is a operating system and also a security nightmare.