I spent the evening knocking down the cobwebs and dusting off the baseboards, but started with something unrelated to this site. I had another WordPress site that I decided to take down, so I archived some of the content then deleted the WordPress installation.
Returning to this site, I saw a warning about the php version, so I updated that from 7.4 to 8.3. My hosting provider regularly updates WordPress, along with its plugins and themes, but not the PHP version. I made a backup first, but didn’t notice any issues after the update. I also made some other minor changes that were recommended, and deleted some old files. One recommendation was to remove unused themes, which got me to look at what I had installed and pick something new.
Next I turned to the blog contents, cleaning up some of the tags and categories. There is probably more work to do on that front, but it’s tidy enough that I can start to look forward.