[krapp]

There are likely to be pretty reasonable Wordpress themes and plugins for most common use cases, though. For something responsive, really the default twentytwelve theme or Responsive I think are good bets. Every now and then though you come across something weird and have to write something custom for the functions file and you end up hating life because Wordpress has some byzantine crapfest way of doing things which should be simple (walkers, i'm looking at you.)

The real downside is security. The hardening wordpress[1] article is pretty good but I also found some decent tricks in the .htaccess file for the html5 boilerplate[2] that seem useful too. You end up having to install it, then fix it, which is never good.

[1]http://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress [2]https://raw.github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/master/.htacce...