Settled in at the new web host. Still not sure about the move. It’s like moving to a new apartment—it forces you to review all the accumulated clutter. Of course, in the decidedly un-methodical way in which I conducted the move, I managed to copy stuff from my local backup that should never be accessible on a web server. But my local backup is the digital landfill where everything from my site (that I cannot bring myself to delete forever and ever) ends up. I also copied the old version of WordPress to the new server. It was a mess, but I am done crying over broken lenses and the frustrations of dis-connectivity.
I’m sure there were other—many other—errors made by me during this transition. By the way does anyone know what that row of little page icons is doing there in my “Add New Post” window?
It is probably some misconfiguration the root of which I will not discover until I die.
Just now trying to upload that image, I discovered the new server does not have write access to most of the directories within my site. Every time I do something new on this server, I hit an obstacle. Sigh. It is to be expected during the transition. What I said about thinking things through is truer than ever. But I am halfway down the mountain and going 40, and now is not the time to change my brand of skis.