I hadn't heard of Bookstack, cool tip, thank you!
my reasoning for using Wordpress (MkDocs came later, originally I was gonna use a Wordpress plugin for the wiki, blech) is simply that I'm familiar with it, and my mental bandwidth for learning new frameworks is very limited and will stay that way until I have my own space.
when I left off building the website in July 2024, I had just started styling MkDocs-Material to match the style of the Wordpress portion of the site. I'm not sure exactly how the integration will go yet, I found with such limited availability of mental coherence, sometimes I have to just start building and see what happens π
oh, one reason for using MkDocs - all my existing personal documentation is in Markdown format.
anyway, not much progress on the site for a few days, but I solved a longstanding problem with my reverse proxy setup by switching to Wireguard!