Thank you so much for all of the help! It’s still hasn’t quite worked yet, so I’ll have to look over the dbDelta options and, worst comes to worst, assume that it’s some problem with another plugin/the theme and just create the table by hand.
That said, datdesignguy, do you know of any way to convert photos to and from binary for the table photograph storage? Would it have to be a specific file type for the storage to work? (Apologies if this is a side topic — I can edit this paragraph out if you think it would be better.)
