Congrats / Condolences on losing your job. Often times, these can be blessings in disguise. Any insight into why you were let go?

If you go the wordpress route, do yourself a real favor and read up on the common and ever-growing list of wordpress hacks out in the wild.

It's not enough to build a wordpress site, you're also going to be called upon to manage and secure them as well. Wordpress is a big, popular platform these days, which means a lot of ne'erdowells are gunning for it.

Also, seconding whoever is voting for Django, since you have a python background. Double seconding the recommendation to get more active with your downtime