Bill Hails

Thanks very much for your reply, and yes, you summarise my problem precisely.

As for your suggestion, thanks also for that, I’m not a very experienced WordPress user so I wasn’t aware of add_filter(), I’ll check it out. I wasn’t happy about having to empty out default.min.css.

By the way I found an easy way to get a consistent look and feel to both TablePress and DataTables in the absence of the TablePress css, by just adding ‘”bJQueryUI”: true’ to the ‘Custom Commands’ section of the TablePress table, same as I’ve been doing directly with DataTables (that of course requires the jquery ui themes support).

It is resolved now, though I’m still trying to find out exactly what they did. I quote:

I have reset the website theme in your WordPress dashboard. Now, the website https://www.roystonarchery.org/new/ is coming up fine without any issues.

But I’d already tried switching back to my parent theme, and in any case my theme now is still my child theme.

I only mentioned the max_questions limit because I thought it might be related/relevant.

Actually, given that many hosts could impose this limit, wouldn’t it be better for wp to throw a 403 on detecting the error rather than blindly assuming there is no database and presenting an install page?

My next step will be to install a cache plugin. Any recommendations?

yes that’s deliberate, the original site was hand written, I replaced with a wordpress site under /new around May and redirected.