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Never mind, I finally figured it out! I was using the Shopping Cart Block for the cart page content. It has tabs in it & you have to click the Empty Cart tab to change the content & wording.

Thank you! This turned out to be the problem!

I logged in to my database with phpMyAdmin and saw that I was using an old account. I had a newer account I’d forgotten about. I tried that one and it seems to have all the correct permissions.

I’m trying to re-launch a really old WordPress site that was hacked once & hasn’t been updated in years. I’m sure I’ll have more questions as I try to modernize it.

I just managed to get myself out of this problem. Still not sure why it worked, but here’s what I did:

While using auto-upgrade, I got the “Fatal error: Call to undefined function: is_admin()” message.
Tried to roll back, but couldn’t get my backups to unzip properly. So…
I went back to the error page and hit my browser’s back button.
Instead of the previous upgrade page, I got a page with an “upgrade your database” button. I clicked the button.
It took me back to my admin pages with a warning at the top to get rid of extra files from an old installation. I clicked on the link to do that.
The upgrade page reloaded, said I was done. And my blog seems to be working again, and upgraded!