Minimalism Isn’t an Aesthetic. It’s a Power Move.

WordPress isn’t broken. It’s bloated. And I finally got tired of pretending that more features meant a better experience. I switched to Ghost because I wasn’t looking for a digital Swiss Army knife with seventeen corkscrews. I wanted something sharp, fast, and focused. Instead of building content, I was managing plugins like a bored IT intern. That’s not writing. That’s maintenance.

The promise of WordPress is freedom. Infinite themes. Infinite plugins. Infinite “customization.” What that really means is infinite tinkering. Every new idea required three updates and a compatibility prayer. I didn’t start a blog to babysit a stack of third-party code. I started it to publish. Ghost feels like someone finally remembered that a publishing platform should prioritize publishing.

The difference is psychological. In WordPress, I felt like I was running infrastructure. In Ghost, I feel like I’m running a publication. The interface is clean. The writing experience is stripped down in the best way. No dashboard clutter screaming for attention. No plugin notifications flashing like a casino floor. Just words, structure, and intent. It’s boring in the way good tools are boring. It gets out of the way.

This wasn’t about trends or aesthetics. It was about friction. WordPress kept adding it. Ghost removes it. The more serious I get about writing, the less patience I have for noise. Platforms should serve the work, not compete with it. I didn’t leave because WordPress failed. I left because I outgrew the chaos. Sometimes growth looks like subtraction.

Clean tools produce clean thinking. I chose the one that shuts up and lets me work.