I realized (after setting up my site, of course) that b2 is no longer being developed. That bugged me enough that I decided to upgrade right away. I looked at a couple of branches and tried them locally before settling on WordPress. B2evolution was my other choice but it had more features than I needed (multiple blogs – why would I need that?). Those extra features added complexity, and it made copious use of template files in the default install that I would have had to clean out.
WordPress seemed to do the trick, but for some reason the paging STILL doesn’t work. Maybe there’s a trick to it I haven’t figured out yet.