Okay. Have done a lot of searching and skimming articles and posts. Learned many more words and phrases that I need to search and skim about. Looking into ActivityPub, so I can be on the Fediverse. Reviewed the difference between themes and templates, and discovered that the theme I want to use doesn’t work with WordPress’s site editor (different from the post and theme editors). Rediscovered that child themes are a thing, and that I should probably be working with one of those. And trying to determine if I need custom post types, should keep multisite WordPress installation, and whether I should use a MediaWiki or WordPress for my photography gallery/archive.

Thankfully, there’s no real timeframe for this, aside from however long I can maintain focus and whether I can turn down the amount of focus to a more sustainable level. For now, it’s all about scribbling down notes and designing a solid foundation that I can come back to and build upon.