jeffreyellis

No, they have different plug-in’s — thanks, I will give that a try.

Can you tell me where the mail() functionality is called from? I.e., what php file in my WP installation uses this function?

They claim mail() functionality works just fine, and are asking for my WP admin userid and password so they can investigate my settings. I think I need a new web hosting service.

Thanks — I’ve submitted a trouble ticket to my hosting service, to ask about the PHP mail() functionality. Appreciate the help! Will set this to resolved if/when I learn for sure it’s not a WP problem.

Thanks for the advice — but wondering why I would have to use a plug-in — why did it suddenly stop working? I’d like to know if it’s a Wordpres(.com or .org) problem or a problem with my web hosting service. Because I’ve had some other hosting issues lately, and this might push me over the edge to switch to some other web hosting service.

I submitted a trouble ticket with directNic (my hoster).

The problem was that “…there was a security block for your I.P. address, and the WordPress admin access, so our Web Server host administrator removed that entry, and opened the domain up for you, so you should be good to go now.”

That fixed the problem.

Lesson learned: DirectNic will do things to you. If you use them to host your site and things start getting flaky, might want to see what they’ve messed with.

Could this be some kind of MySQL problem? Is it possible that the widgets.php stuff can’t connect to the database where the widget details are stored? (Or do I not really understand how this stuff works?)