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1. Apply all the security updates and patches as they come out. It's literally just one click.

2. Don't to get too fancy with too much customization (writing your own plugins, weird post types).

3. Using a less mature blogging engine has its own problems. Rolling your own blog engine is nuts.

4. You can find someone to write a wordpress theme for you pretty cheaply.

5. There's a reason so many websites run on wordpress.

6. If blogging isn't your core product, there isn't much point to using something nonstandard. Would you write your own E-Mail system? Why not just use the standard blogging system?