Well, that was weird.
For the past couple of weeks, something was amiss with the WordPress installation on this site. Stylesheets were not loading, links to various pages were pointing at nonexistent subdirectories, and I wasn’t able to log into the WordPress dashboard to look at where the configuration settings went haywire.
It appears that after my hosting provider forcibly updated every single one of my sites to PHP 8.2, something in that process decided to “adjust” the WordPress Address and Site Address settings for site. Those settings were no longer pointing at the correct directories, but instead, two completely different WordPress directories also located on the server.
As mentioned, since I wasn’t able to log into WordPress itself, I ended up accessing the database which stores those settings using the phpMyAdmin interface supplied by my dubious hosting provider’s cPanel tools. (My hosting provider is dubious, not the tools.) Once those two settings were corrected and saved back into the database, all was well again and could access the WordPress dashboard accordingly.
What I’d really like to find out is how this whole schemozzle happened in the first place.
Regardless, I plan on moving this site to an entirely different content management system in the near future. Everything will migrate over to Kirby, which is what powers the Newton Glossary site.
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