The short version — WordPress is a brilliant tool — it's also the wrong tool for a site that's nothing but articles, calculators, and a sitemap. Tinkernotes has no logins, no comments, no checkout, and no database it can't live without. So it's an Astro site built as static HTML and served from Cloudflare Pages. The result is a site that costs £0/month to host, ships almost no JavaScript, and can't be hacked the ways WordPress sites get hacked. If you're a WP dev sitting on a content project, this is the build I'd push you towards.
I've spent eight years shipping WordPress and WooCommerce for a UK agency — custom plugins, themes, gateway integrations, the lot. WordPress pays my mortgage. So the most reasonable question about this site is: why isn't it WordPress? I've had that question from two developers I respect already. Here's the long answer.
The choice I was expected to make
If you'd asked me to build a content site any year from 2014 to about 2022, the answer was reflex: WordPress. Pick a host, install WP, drop in a block theme or build one, add Yoast for SEO, write. I could have had Tinkernotes live in an afternoon and never thought about it again. That's not a knock on WordPress — that is WordPress's superpower. It collapses "publish a website" into a solved problem.
