noospherean

Thank you for that. I’ve reinstalled the WP package, and have gone through uploading the ‘contents’ of each wp-content folder, and the site, such as it is, is here : http://www.bend-music.com . The header is still missing, as is most of the formatting. (I have backups from Jan. 20 on, so I’m mystified why none showing up correctly…)

Is there another directory that I’m missing, perhaps? Or, something particular from wp-includes or wp-admin?

Thank you for responding, samboll.
That was my major misstep I think : I tried to upgrade both a wordpress install in a subdirectory (wp/) and the install at http://www.bend-music.com. This is a very humbling experience, since I had read so much I thought I knew what I was doing…

Now, my main concern is the install at the main site (bend-music.com): I have tried and failed (a lot) to restore the site to where it was before upgrading; I have many backups of the site, as well as backups of the db.
No matter which version of wordpress I install, every time i reload wp-content it breaks (even wp-content from several older backups of the site).

Do I need to start from scratch? Or maybe there’s something obvious I’m missing?