Thank you for getting back to me, I appreciate it.
As for question 1, I am unable to set a featured image for the home page as it is set to “latest posts” and have tried to change that to get the same look that’s on my home page now with no luck.
My gravatar is set up, linked with my WordPress.
Is there anyway we can get on some sort of chat/email? I’d like to give you screen shots, but it would be much easier to chat.
somehow it was a problem with the Linux server, somehow something was making something in a file that was not lowercase causing a fatal error. I think it had something to do with jetpack trying to create albums for photos. As it is, the only work around I can find is if I post in “classic” mode for the photo gallery.
It now seems to be working and not crashing. I got rid of the JETPACK plugin. Can you perhaps take a look on the site now and see what/if anything should be removed.
I have great success with yoast seo in the past. Is that a plugin that you can recommend?
My host was finally able to get my website back up as of 10pm last night. Today, I’m going to delete all my plugins and try to re-install all the recommend plugins.