KurtGriffith

Agreed! This is kind of opaque.

Found it on the Support Forum – reset permalinks. Not obvious, but worked!

Was straight up the first thing I checked. All the relevant folders – 755.

My ISP modified something in wp-config.php that brought them back.

My ISP was able to get things sorted.

akismet.php is parked here:
https://pastebin.com/pVVnfj0u
Seems to be in order.

I can do that, but I might point out that WP does not seem to be able to see ANY plugins.

Just to test, I tried to install something innocuous – “Duplicate Post”
The install was supposedly successful –

Plugins page still says –
You do not appear to have any plugins available at this time.

2nd Attempt produces…
Destination folder already exists. /httpdocs/studio_blog/wp-content/plugins/duplicate-post/
Plugin install failed.

The “duplicate-post” folder DOES appear within the Plugins folder when checked in FTP.

/httpdocs/studio_blog/wp-content/plugins/akismet/askimet.php

I might point out that NONE of my plugings is appearing in Dashboard > plugings or currently running.
Nothing exotic or funky, some of the usual stuff.

add-link-to-facebook
akismet
wp-spamfree
simple-backup
jetpack
wordbook
hello.php
index.php

Successfully repaired table in PHP MyAdmin. Huzzah!

FOr whatever reason, the overall site is now working again. But I would like to clean up that table.

I suspected as something like this. Best to work on this after hours.

It’s GoDaddy, they’re pretty good with their server tech. If the control panel says it’s PHP 5.2, I’m confident it is.

My suspicions is that WP 2.7 is reporting PHP 4.4.9 which may have been the version at the time of installation, but is unable to detect the updated PHP. Or the updater can’t detect the current PHP version. Or something like that…

I suspect that means I’ll have to install the WP update manually… but I fear it will be a tedious pain in the butt and break the site. And I am sure that My client is less than interested in paying for a pile of back end work that they are pretty clueless about.

Was answered in another thread.
Thank You!

Similarly, would a self-created HTML form be able to access the field slugs created in CCF, so I could re-use the form slugs built in basic forms?

I am fairly certain that my client will want to more formatted forms than the plug in generates directly. I already know that I want to be able to more finely format and break up long forms into sections.