mfogarty

Great, thanks so much for the advise!

Thanks, Steven, I’ll have a look into that. If I could ask, would you recommend one database per WP instance rather than a shared Db with individual tables?

Just realized I put this in the wrong forum! Closing and moving. Thanks

Thanks very much, I’ll check this out

That’s great. I just wanted to be sure of the best option. Thanks very much to you both for the advice. Much appreciated.

Ok, so WP_USE_MULTIPLE_DB is not what I’m looking for.. Thanks, Andrea_r, for clearing that much up anyway. I still need to look at options for restoring a single blog out of dozens, potentially hundreds (educational institution rolling out to several thousand staff). I’d really appreciate any advice from experienced WP admins on the best way to go about this. Thanks

A fresh tarball seems to have solved my problems. Should have tried that sooner. Thanks, esmi and macmanx, and sorry if I wasted your time. Appreciate the help!

Esmi, thanks for the reply. I had deactivated all plugins but not themes so have just tried again with only the default theme active but getting same result.