Hi @jimgrant,
Thanks for the reply! After I posted I did a bunch of digging and trial and error, and did fix the problem. One problem I found the answer was changing get_excerpt to get_content and the other was changing a whole .php blog file in the theme. I do not plan on using my site as a blog and the site is working perfectly now so I’m happy. The issue was not related to WordPress, but the theme itself.
Have a great day!!