Bill

I’m not seeing a problem using Firefox. Have you tried clearing your browser cache?

If you can’t access your admin pages, you’ll need to use an FTP client (like FileZilla), or your host’s cpanel (or File Manager) and navigate to the files on the server.

In your WP installation there, find wp-content/plugins and rename that plugin folder to something like plugins-hold. That will disable all plugins and hopefully allow you to get back into WP admin. Rename the folder back to the original. Then you can start re-activating plugins until you find the problem one(s).

You’ll probably want something like this in your custom styles:

.page .entry article {
    background: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7) none repeat scroll 0 0;
}

Change the 0.7 to the level of transparency you want (from 0 to 1). Or even tweak the rgb color values along with it.

You need to test this to see if the pages affected are the ones you want to be affected, and adjust the classes accordingly.

It doesn’t make sense that WordPress would take over my site and lock me out.

This isn’t WP locking you out, it’s your web host InMotion Hosting – locking your admin down until the attacks subside. You either need to get in touch with them, or wait until the lockout period expires.

EDIT: @pipdig.co beat me to it 🙂

If you create a child theme and don’t make any changes to it, it will be identical to the parent theme except in name. When you activate a clean-slate child, you shouldn’t see any difference from the parent theme. You can switch back and forth between them without losing anything.

A child theme is put in its own folder in the wp-content/themes folder, at the same level of the parent theme, and not inside the parent. If you don’t activate the child theme, it will have no effect on your WP installation.

If you have made changes to the parent theme already, you must copy them over to the child before reverting the parent to its original state (which you can do by just replacing it with a fresh copy from the repository).

This is your best reference for creating a child theme:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes

Each theme has its own way of displaying your content, which is why we pick one theme over another. I think it would be best to ask about this image issue in the dedicated support forum for your theme so the theme developers and community can help you sort this part out. Good luck!

In the Settings-Reading results as it had to be, latest posts.

When your landing (home) page is set to show recent posts, it will use the appropriate template from your theme to display those posts. If the theme contains a home.php template, it uses that. If not, it uses index.php. It isn’t necessary to create a (normal) page that would be found in Pages > All Pages. Does that help?