So … a funny thing happened on the way to the latest Cephas Hour … … except it wasn’t all that funny. What should have been routine site maintenance quickly turned into disaster, as a WordPress plugin plugged itself into a live wire and exploded, taking everything else with it. Oh goody. The “help” desk at my provider was the not-so holy trinity of helpless, hopeless, and hapless (note to self: dump GoDaddy ASAP), so I dusted off my long-dormant website skills and set to work. I reinstalled WordPress, knowing it would demolish most everything, but there was no alternative. Some MySQL sleight of hand reconnected the re-installed site to its existing database, thus preserving all the old ghosts … er, posts. Y’all caught the Prayer Chain reference there, I trust. A re-installation and activation of the preferred theme, thus restoring the site’s layout, and voilà! Almost back to normal. I need to reactivate the site’s security certificates, but that is forthcoming. Regrettably,
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