There are tumblog themes and plugins in Wordpress you can use. Don’t build castles on other people’s land. Use this as a learning point.
Besides, the land is advertised for building castles on. People have built castles on it before and there are people with some big castles on it right now. It's not an unreasonable move to see that and try and participate.
The journey to functioning website may never have been easier than it is right now, but it's still a lot of effort to ask of someone, and it's contrary to the point of society - if chefs are forced to grow wheat just to have bread at their restaurant, that's not efficient. It may be better bread, and they ought to have a right to if they choose, but an effective society will optimize such that they don't have to.