WordPress probably has the highest barrier to entry when setting it up on a server, but it, for all it's misgivings, does off all of the features in the best ways. If only it was easier to customize.

"WordPress is the worst blogging platform, except for all the others." - Winston Churchill

Does it let you post content in markdown?

This is important because to me a blog is just a place to publish my writings. I must be able to write somewhere else in my preferred format and just use the blog to publish it.

As far as I can tell, wordpress only lets you write in their own wysiwyg editor, or plain html. Nothing else.

So if I want to publish to it in markdown, I have to first export markdown to html separately.