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It is working!

Here is the final code:

function metaslider_nivo_params($options, $slider_id) {
    $options['afterChange'][] = "current_slide_no = jQuery('#metaslider_{$slider_id}').data('nivo:vars').currentSlide;";
    $options['afterChange'][] = "jQuery('#nivo-slider-status > .current-slide').html(current_slide_no+1);";

    return $options;
}
add_filter('metaslider_nivo_slider_parameters', 'metaslider_nivo_params', 10, 2);

function metaslider_nivo_js($javascript, $slider_id) {
  $javascript .= "jQuery('#nivo-slider-status').show();
        var total = jQuery('#metaslider_{$slider_id}').data('nivo:vars').totalSlides;
        jQuery('#nivo-slider-status > .total-slides').html(total);
        var current_slide_no = jQuery('#metaslider_{$slider_id}').data('nivo:vars').currentSlide;
        jQuery('#nivo-slider-status > .current-slide').html(current_slide_no+1);";

    return $javascript;
}
add_filter('metaslider_nivo_slider_javascript', 'metaslider_nivo_js', 10, 2);

For anyone using this, please note that you need to add:

<div id="nivo-slider-status">
    <span class="current-slide"></span> of <span class="total-slides"></span>
</div>

somewhere in your template.

Ok. A band-aid has been applied.

I started to think that this might just have been an error that got stuck in some kind of cache on the server. And while there is still some mystery how all the rewrites create virtual directories on the server, I figured “why not create a physical directory, put an index.html file into it and clear the cache.”

Well at first it did not want to let create the directory… It thought there already was one. But if I created it locally and uploaded via ftp… it let me “create” the physical directory.

I hit the new /enlightenedmotherhood/ URL once. I went back and deleted the physical directory. Went back to /enlightenedmotherhood/ and… It worked!!! My WordPress multisite is shining through.

I am still interested in thoughts on causes and possible optimizations for preventing this from happening again.

Thanks for your time.