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Thanks, Rev.

Wow.
Yes! A big YES, per your generous reminder, I remembered moving the wp-config file up one level.

And yes, that did solve the problem: Thank you so much!

However, while I have your brilliant mind here, after taking a look in the “real” config file, I noticed that the DB_USER name is still listed as “root,” and it’s also listed as “root” in the mysql database “user” table as well. I actually created a new database user name long ago and deleted the “root” user. There’s only one user listed now in my database “_users” table.

You think it would be wise to change that “root” user name to the present database user name in both wp-config file and the mysql database “user” table for security reasons?

Problem solved.
Like to have never found it.

For anyone else to whom this may have happened:
Went into the mysql database for my site through phpmyadmin.
Opened the “user” table.
Clicked on the “Edit” icon for user “root”.
There it was: Radio button for “Create_priv” set to NO.
Clicked on YES radio button.
Clicked GO

Thanks, folks.
I appreciate everyone’s help here.
This permissions thing is all a bit new.

I went to Filezilla and never could figure out how to even get to the localhost server. Alas, when accessing the wordpress directories, right click wouldn’t give me a file permissions option.

So, just so I don’t continue draging this dead horse through the streets, may I assume there’s no way to set file permissions in a localhost environment on an NTFS machine before I migrate the site to bluehost’s server?

Thanks so much, Rich.
I apparently DON’T have a brain.
Alas, never used a shopping cart before now.
For the record, where does the file that’s in the eshop Appearance page actually live? Is it in a folder somewhere in the eshop folders?