Okay, so I have finished dealing with the nightmare the first webhost I settled on had become. Refund is processing and new webhost acquired. I will not be able to do EXACTLY what I wanted with the other webhost, but at least they were honest about their capabilities from the start - the other was not.

Beyond that, I have the existing site data moved, and the base wordpress install finished. I've reproduced the original site structure on the new site, although it will be changing - but at least I'm starting from a place I recognize. Due to waiting for the refund to process and my Twitch payout, I will be doing the VISUAL upgrade and set up at the very end of this process, not at the beginning like one would hope.. but I think it'll still work out.

Completed today:

• Organizing and scheduling my to-do list so that I can hopefully get the whole thing done by the 26th when this site goes back to the free model and becomes a forwarding site so people can find the new site.
• Finished researching plug-ins and deciding what I'll be adding into the new site... more about this in the days to come....
• Finished figuring out the new site structure and menu hierarchy.
• Finalized the move of all the old pages, posts, and comments over to the new host.... still needs a lot of work on links and fixing the featured images, since those don't transfer easily... but we'll get there.

The real work .. starts tomorrow. Wish me luck!!