On: I tried to use WordPress with GitHub Pages

[mdu96]

That's essentially what it was before :)

I mostly just wanted a better writing experience and CMS. (I talk about that in a section on the post).

[clairity → mdu96]

if you wanted a cms and was using jekyll, why not something like https://forestry.io/ ? it's git-aware, which means it should work with github pages (i've not tried it myself, other than a cursory look-see).