Matthew Gedeon

WordPress generates a .htaccess file unless there is already one. It doesn’t use it unless you change the permalink structure or a plugin uses it (or you network enable wordpress). Most people prefer to change the permalink structure to something more readable.
I’m not an expert on server settings but I vaguely recall having a similar issue that was only resolved by contacting my host.

You will need to add the code below to the bottom of your style sheet for your theme.

.form-allowed-tags {display:none;}

So, I just found out something that will save you enormous amounts of trouble.
First look all over your menu for a “update framework” button.
The theme your site uses is a modified version of this theme. If the trick above doesn’t fix your problem, there is probably an update to the theme or a plugin that the designer can download to fix it. If not, then a better place to ask for help than here would be at https://www.woothemes.com/support-forum/?viewforum=42&page=2 because that is the them you are using and they would be more likely to know the ins and outs of the theme.
If nothing else works, you can deactivate the current them, buy the theme from woothemes, install it by their instruction and turn it on. Your setting will carry over from before, but you’ll have the benefit of any patches they made to the theme. (but you’ll lose any customizations the hired dev may have made, assuming they did anything beside rename the theme.)

The plugin could be modified to use the wordpress version…but it is actually faster to load from google cdn because the js file is already cached in many of your users browser, so it doesn’t have to be re-downloaded, and, because it uses a CDN it downloads more quickly than if it were to be downloaded from your site.

I know of premium themes that have similar galleries on themeforest, but I doubt you are going to find a gallery with the niceties that on has for free.

You’ll need to download and figure out how to use an ftp client. You’ll probably want to use filezilla as it’s the most popular client. Here’s instructions for use.
What you’ll need to do is go into your wp-content then to “themes” then the name of your theme, then open the functions.php file and remove your modifications.

My bet is on server setting. I would provide them with the error and ask them to check permissions. Be sure to mention the part about wordpress not being allowed to create a .htaccess file.

Try:
resetting the plugins folder by FTP or phpMyAdmin.

Here’s why no one is able to help. The theme you are using wasn’t made well at all. The menu’s are controlled entirely by the theme which appears to be custom made by these guys.
You have three choices.
1. Contact the designers and ask them to fix it. They might be convinced to fix it for free.
2. Switch themes / purchase one. There are dozens of themes which will probably work better and look better than what you have.
3. Hire an independent developer at job.wordpress.net

Try this instead and let me know what happens.
#branding .page-id-265 img {display: none;}

There’s a page template called showcase. Depending on your exact needs, this may do it for you.

You’re on the right track. First of all, let me explain that somewhere in the theme there is bad code and it is doing what most code does when it isn’t written right…it’s freaking out.
If you have made any changes to the theme, then first grab the zombie apocalypse folder and drag and drop it to your computer to make a backup copy.
Next Delete the folder, then try logging in. DO NOT DELETE ANYTHING ELSE but the folder and the files in it. (filezilla will give you a list of everything it is deleting so don’t freak out, that’s just all the files that are in that folder.) Delete by right clicking (or command click for Mac users) and going down to “delete” in the menu. Remember, only the zombie apocalypse theme, not the whole themes folder.
By the way, what service are you using to host your blog? Some come with support, however if you have godaddy, I can tell you they don’t support anything that isn’t directly their problem as a general rule.

Is the “/hp_wordpress/” supposed to be part of your url? It’s unusual.

is_home() will actually target what you need. It will only show the text you put there if the guest is on the home page/listing of blog posts. You’ll probably want to put it in index.php if your theme works like most do. You can try it in different places, and if you have trouble getting it to work, you can us pastebin to post the contents of the index file and one of us can help you place it.

Not from the wordpress side. Simply put, it can’t be anything in wordpress causing it. It has to be some setting on the server or a DNS configuration. Your host is the one to contact. Or you might try searching for something like “site running slow on (you hosts name here)” and see if that turns anything up. With web development, the chances that you are the first person this has happened to is almost zero.