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> I'm certainly guilty of writing a few myself.

So am I. My first one was written in C in 1995, and the resultant site run under NCSA Httpd. DIY-ing becomes tedious after several cycles, though.

On the other hand, my experience with generally available SSGs has been miserable. They keep breaking my site after a few upgrades. At this point, I am very close to just spinning up wordpress for a new site.

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Well, that gives you more opportunities to have to update plug-ins and dodge vulnerabilities. Maybe a ton of people are a good fit for core WP these days, but I can't imagine the overhead of knowing what to update beyond the auto-updating core if there are a bunch of extensions.

I admin a local org's WP site, because someone has to, and thoroughly appreciate the SSG that I use personally.

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