Pros

Better SEO

Wordpress has built-in sitemaps, but R Blogdown has worse sitemaps like the following: [caption id="attachment_1327" align="alignnone" width="1024"]

the bad sitemaps of a r blogdown blog[/caption]

Cons

Wordpress strips Javascript in the Posts

For instance, if you want to add a pretty button like the following: <button style="display: inline-block; padding: 12px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; color: white; background-color: #1babdf; border: none; border-radius: 8px; cursor: pointer; transition: background-color 0.3s ease; text-decoration: none;" onmouseover="this.style.backgroundColor='#0e7aa8'" onmouseout="this.style.backgroundColor='#1babdf'" onclick="window.open('http://54.248.28.115/IB_refer_articles', '_blank');">Interactie Brokers Exclusive Account Opening Offer Link</button> Wordpress will auotmatically remove the onmouseover, onmouseout, and onclick in your code. It's troublesome.