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I changed the link to “attachment” and possibly deactivated another plugin, but in any case I am seeing the social icons now. I thought I read somewhere that you had to say link=file, which gives you the image outside of wordpress. But the attachment leaves you in the wordpress environment so the social icons work.

I think I have figured it out. I wanted a global array $chapters[] of all of my sites with the chapter name. So, here is my code, in functions.php in a child theme. Note, it was not a function, just inline code. Any time I activated the child theme the craziness began. I need the functionality, because I need to be able to move between the chapters. So, I would appreciate learning the right way to do it. It showed the right stuff on the error_log, but really confused the admin display. The database was fine, when I deleted the code, it is okay again.

global $chapters;
    global $wpdb;
    global $blog_id;
if (function_exists('is_multisite') && is_multisite()) {

        // check if it is a network activation - if so, run the activation function for each blog id

        $old_blog = $wpdb->blogid;
            // Get all blog ids
            $blogids = $wpdb->get_col("SELECT blog_id FROM $wpdb->blogs WHERE spam = '0' AND deleted = '0' AND archived = '0' ");
            foreach ($blogids as $blog_id) {
		$table=$wpdb->base_prefix.$blog_id."_options";
		if($blog_id==1)$table=$wpdb->base_prefix."options";
		$blogname = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT option_value FROM ".$table." WHERE option_name='blogname' ");
		error_log("SELECT option_value FROM ".$table." WHERE option_name='blogname' ");
                error_log("base prefix is ".$wpdb->base_prefix);
		$chapters[$blog_id]=$blogname;
		//  var_dump($blogname,"blogname ".$blog_id);
            }
	    error_log("functions Chapters:".print_r($chapters,true));

        }
    else {
	$chapters[2]="Test Chapter";
	$chapters[1]="North Charleston";
    }

One more strange thing–
I have a “custom” menu entry on the test chapter site that was supposed to point back to the main site. But instead it shows the page that was the home page on the main site. But the menu entry is correctly pointing to the root url.
I am going to rebuild again tonight, but I need to find out what I am doing.

It happened again. This time, I was working in User Meta Pro (which seems to have at least one bug in multisite, that’s another topic). I had rebuilt my site and everything had looked good for one day. I have two blogs, one called “WIN” (main one) and the other called “Test Chapter”. I don’t know how to insert a picture here, so I will describe it. What I see:
My Sites Test Chapter
Network Admin
WIN
WIN

whereas it should be:
My Sites Test Chapter
Network Admin
WIN
Test Chapter

And no matter which “WIN” I press above, I get “Test Chapter” site, not the WIN Site.
Can anyone tell me where to look in the database to see if there are clues there? I re-enabled all my plugins, including one I have written, but I don’t see how anything could create this mess.