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‘shortcode deactivated’ issue is now sorted out — I delved deeper into your knowledge base and discovered the generic shortcode to use (the dashboard message confused me into thinking there should be a specific shortcode with a unique number or other identifier tied to the menu I was working with). Sorry not to have found this before I posted the original message!

Thanks — it turned out not to be a security issue, and I couldn’t get “$newdb= new wpdb(“DBUserName”,”Password”,”DatabaseName”,”HostName”)” to work no matter what, but adding new tables to the WP database worked fine.

I’d previously tried the “adding new tables” method as my very first approach on my local, test installation, and had ended up crashing WordPress entirely, so I’d been reluctant to go that route for the live version. But since nothing else worked, I reread the “adding new tables” info in the link Tara provided, and gritted my teeth and tried it in the real world, and nothing crashed and I’m now in business.

Thanks again!