Thanks Abhishek. I actually just gave up on the whole migration project last night, blew away the installation and repopulated a fresh install from scratch, so that’s why it’s working again ??
After doing all this, I discovered the reason for the original problem was a “bad” document root on DB export. My host had told me my root was something like “/home/user1232/public_html”, but when I reinstalled the new WP from scratch, I exported the working DB and the path was something more like “/servername/serverlocation/user1232/public_html”. While I guess technically those two roots are the same (?), apparently in terms of how the DB works they are not, so the homepage was messing up.
I re-exported my old Local DB using the ‘actual’ document root, reimported, and the homepage worked fine. Trying a different migration tonight so we’ll see what happens now that I know the ‘actual’ root.
