Why I Chose WordPress Blocks Over a Custom Frontend Stack

I’ve built products with React, Next.js, and custom design systems. They’re powerful. They’re fast. They’re also heavy when you just want to write.

For my personal blog, I chose WordPress blocks for one simple reason. Writing should feel easy.

Blocks give me structure without friction. I don’t think about layouts anymore. I think about ideas.

Here’s what surprised me most:

• The editor feels closer to writing than coding
• Layouts stay consistent without effort
• Content remains portable

What Blocks Get Right

Blocks are visual, but they’re also semantic. A quote looks like a quote. A list behaves like a list. That matters long term.

• Clear hierarchy
• Accessible markup
• Editor and frontend alignment

Writing is faster when the tool gets out of the way.

I didn’t abandon custom code. I just moved it where it belongs. In the theme, not in every post.