Finally switched to using an SSG (static site generator) Pelican.
I have some blogs in my old WordPress site and some scattered writings, will hopefully have them all here, eventually. I liked WordPress, but it's more than I needed for my site. And I never quite groked it enough to get the functionality and theme down that I wanted without submitting to plugins. And having a WordPress site seems to be screaming "COME ATTACK ME!". My site has been static since June 2018 and I'm constantly seeing WordPress-y type of POSTs/GETs coming to the site still. HEY LEAVE ME ALONE, I'M STATIC NOW.
But so far it seems eaiser to use Pelican and use whatever theme I want. I have to still figure out how to get the blog roll on my frontpage, but that's not overally important.