Some progress made: the page looks fine if I go to it under its generic domain: https://ringmar.net/irhistorynew/ It is only when I use the purchased domain name https://irhistory.info that it looks like a webpage. Why would that be?
I just started using Zotpress and it is potentially just what I’ve been looking for. Amazing actually since I want to move my writing over to the web. However, i seem to have the spinning gears problem too, although it would be that I formatted the shortcode incorrectly …