&gt;However, I don&#x27;t agree with the apparently widespread conclusion that it follows, from this sentiment, that not publishing is better than publishing using a less-than-lovely platform.<p>After having had to deal with the aftermath of a hacked Wordpress site that was sending out massive amounts of spam, I would respectfully disagree. I consider Wordpress (and Wordpress plugins, especially) as essentially a security hole that allows malicious actors to gain free access to relatively powerful hardware on fat datacenter pipes, making the Internet worse for everyone around them.<p>By all means, publish. But don&#x27;t publish using a platform that allows unauthorized users to misuse your hardware and turn it into a spam zombie&#x2F;DDOS box&#x2F;staging box for hacks, etc.