Here are a few tips for setting up and maintaining a WordPress website. These examples use the "Twenty Seventeen" theme and are specifically based on Port Ludlow Voice's website https://www.plvoice.us/
Back issues of the Port Ludlow Voice use roughly a gigabyte of storage, so they are stored in a stand alone location, https://www.plvoice.net/issues/. The .net location is completely independent of the WordPress page.