Why I’m ditching Wordpress for Squarespace

It’s 4am. My phone buzzes as an email arrives from WebGazer Alerts with the subject, “Heads up: Barnard.co is down”.

I spent way too long making this gif

I visit wp-admin, the Wordpress backend, and the favicon in my browser tab just spins. I’ve got no way into my own site. I drop a message to a friend of mine, a back-end developer and ask for help…