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Thanks for your reply Krishna. Things have changed rapidly since I wrote this yesterday and I hadn’t had a chance to update this ticket yet. I’ve been battling with this issue for some days. Although I am interested in what I did to cause such an error, the more important issue was to get the client back up and running. The non-profit that I support has modest requirements and I have not been thrilled with their hosting company overall including their POP only email access.

My long term intent was to get them away from their hosting company, but that required DNS modification and larger scale email migration issues.

Over the last week I’ve been toying with both a go forward solution (DNS, Hosting, Email changes) and a fix the old solution (get WordPress working again). The problem with the “fix the old” solution is that the hosting company has php version 4.4 installed so the max version of WordPress that I can install is v3.1.4. I feel like I am already behind and I’m at the will of an inferior ISP.

My solution last night was to migrate their self-managed WordPress site to a hosted WordPress.com site and split their mail off to a custom domain served by Outlook.com. So the working site that you see now is coming from WordPress.com with domain mapping turned on.

Thanks again for taking the time to answer my question. Have a good day.