Came pretty close to nuking that Wordpress site, as restoring backup data did not change things.
The culprit however was caching.
Always flush that cache kids. See post below:
Wordpress themes and caching. from r/Wordpress
Programming is like sex: One mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.
Wordpress themes and caching. from r/Wordpress
Go-based web crawler used to efficiently extract structured data (titles, video URLs, and tags) from Google Blogger sites using concurrent p...