Ignoring this site for as long as I have has led to it being broken for a couple of months. If you’re seeing this post, great! It works again.
What happened? Well, my site’s been running WordPress since 1.6, I think. And I’ve changed hosts. And database prefixes. And then merged prefixes. And have had all kinds of plugins and themes installed. And there’s never really been any kind of cleanup. All of those things led to database tables and various internals of WordPress getting discombobulated which kept leading to all kinds of memory leaks.
With the help of Google Gemini, I was finally able to get things cleaned up and working again. Maybe I’ll use the site again? It’s been over a year since I updated anything, so we’ll see.