freedom_dev

I've made a couple of blogs for friends that are currently hosted on cheap VPSs, they are both classic Wordpress blogs with a few hundred MBs images. To reduce maintenance and have more speed/uptime/security I wanted to move the workflow to a static blog hosted on Github Pages (assuming you can host hundreds of MBs there, the limit is 1GB afaik). There seem to be so many ways to go about it, so I'm suffering from analysis paralysis: the workflow should be easy enough for my non-dev friends to update posts themselves without botching the blog..

How would you do it? I had a look at Pelican, Hugo and Lektor and I appreciate the "admin panel" in Lektor but I'm not an expert and you might have better ideas