After a Site Restore, Several Unrelated Settings Can Silently Revert
⚡ Quick Fix (TL;DR)
The Culprit: A morning site restore fixed the immediate problem it was meant to fix, but also silently reverted several unrelated things: the Reading Settings homepage selection (causing a 404), a WPCode mu-plugins-style toggle-back, and a Sucuri hosting-IP entry pausing — none of which threw an obvious error pointing back to "the restore did this."
The Fix: After any full-site restore, explicitly re-check Settings → Reading (homepage/posts page), any security plugin's IP/origin configuration, and recently-active third-party integrations — rather than assuming a restore only touches the specific thing it was run to fix.
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