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It’s never a good thing to see daily traffic plunge in Google Analytics and then head to the site and see, “Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL extension which is required by WordPress.” Also, the supposedly tech-savvy people like to make error resolution more difficult than it needs to be by posting convoluted and unnecessary fixes do not help. Be sure to use specific keywords for your Google searches. In this case, the fix took minimal effort: BlueHost screwed up the php.ini during server maintenance. Solution: log-in to the account and reset the php.ini file. Done.