WordPress runs a huge share of the web, and for good reason — no other platform has an ecosystem this deep. The question for a developer specifically isn't whether WordPress can do the job; it's whether you want to spend your time managing what it takes to keep it doing the job well.
For the wider field of options, see best developer blogging platforms.
What WordPress gets right
Thousands of themes, thousands of plugins, and SEO tooling (Yoast, RankMath) that's genuinely mature — real-time content scoring, schema markup, XML sitemap generation, all configurable without touching code. If a feature exists that any blog could plausibly want, there's a WordPress plugin for it.
WordPress.com offers managed hosting if you don't want to run your own server; self-hosted WordPress.org gives full control at the cost of managing it yourself.
Where it costs you
Self-hosted WordPress means you're responsible for hosting, PHP and plugin version compatibility, security patching, and performance (caching plugins, image optimization, database cleanup are all things you'll eventually configure). Plugin conflicts are a known category of problem — two well-maintained plugins can still break each other, and diagnosing why is its own skill.
Content lives in a MySQL database via a rich-text editor, not as files. Migrating away from WordPress later means an export/import process, not just copying files.
Where Blogizi differs
Blogizi skips the server entirely. Posts are Markdown files with frontmatter, written in your own editor, published with blogizi publish path/to/post.md — no plugins to install for sitemaps, OG images, or canonical URLs, because those are handled automatically per project. See the technical SEO checklist for the full list, and blogging from your terminal for the CLI workflow end to end.
The trade-off is real: WordPress's plugin ecosystem gives you features Blogizi doesn't try to replicate — e-commerce, membership systems, complex custom post types, forums. If your site needs to be more than a blog, that flexibility matters.
The actual decision
Pick WordPress if: you need functionality beyond blogging — e-commerce, forums, complex custom content types — or you're already comfortable managing a hosting stack and want that plugin ecosystem specifically.
Pick Blogizi if: the blog is the whole project, not one feature among many, and you'd rather spend zero time on hosting, plugin updates, or SEO plugin configuration and more time actually writing.