BlestaCMS is really good. If you still want to use wordpress or plain html tho, you should intergrate blesta. It looks a lot more professional. Its so easy!
really you wasn't aware of michael dance's aka @Licensecart 's blestacms product? because I have been using it for my whole website.
it is better then wordpress and about the same easiness that you get with wordpress as well.
ya, i think my dev ran into this same issue. He had to create the html templates directly in the sql database. Not a work around i was very happy about