You’d have to use a blog host, but MarsEdit is wonderful and highly recommended
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Sorry about the late response but here are two plugins for Wordpress that [re]enable the legacy editing:
I use Classic Editor. My Wordpress site is a photography blog site and I did not need the added features of Gutenberg when the legacy editor did everything I needed.
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+1 for the recommendation of MarsEdit. I compose my blog posts using MarsEdit before uploading to my Wordpress site.
I tried Xway but could not get the hang of it and went back to RapidWeaver to update my site. Maybe I’ll give it another chance.
I’ll have to take a look at this. Simplicity is good.
We had a fairly substantial site built with Freeway about 15 years ago. It suited our publishing company as it worked much like a page layout app. It was relatively easy to include calls to a MySQL database for ‘live’ updates. I liked it.
I tried XWay a couple of months ago. In comparison to Freeway it’s essentially unrecognisable. From memory it seemed a bit klunky and the entire process of building a site was unpleasant. I deleted it after a day or so of trying to do something basic.
The move to ‘modern web design’ meant It completely lost the paradigm of page layout, which was what attracted us to Freeway in the first place.
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Thank you Lisa. I can’t get the HUB to download / open. Oh, well. Patrick 
My MacbookPro2024 will not open SeaMonkey. Apparency shows it is not signed and the Mac says it can’t rule out malware. Oh, well. Patrick
It’s not signed so you have to decide if you want to run the app. If you do want to run it, select Done (not Move to Trash). Then go to System Settings–>Privacy and Security and scroll to the bottom. You should see something similar to this:
Select Open Anyway and answer the prompts.
I did all of that and ran SeaMonkey Composer. It’s pretty basic but functional.
Write to support@beyondbetter.app and explain the problem. 
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Wordpress.com is pretty good and not difficult to use. I have two sites up and have had them for years. A friend has been using Square and likes it very much. It creates clean, simple, good looking sites without too much effort. Especially useful if you want to display images.
They moved on the Gutenburg “block” editor, which is simple but can be a pain to tweak.
I have moved from Rapidweaver Classic to Rapidweaver Elements for nicer-looking projects. You probably need to see a few videos, and there are plenty, to get into it, but then it is fairly easy to use. I also keep a number of handwritten pages using BBEdit, and for galleries, I use jAlbum.
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I’m using Wix which I found reasonably easy albeit somewhat limited, but I have not updated it in well over a year. So while there’s a market for it, it isn’t a very active market.
I should add that I tried WordPress a few years ago and soon gave up at its complexity and lack of explanations. I need a web site, but I don’t need complexity.
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