Mark Ratledge

You’re using wordpress.com and in the wrong place; these forums are for self-hosted .org WordPress sites. You need to go to the WordPress.com Forums.

You get what you pay for 🙂

@kazual90:

Your logo will be in theme options or in the media library.

But you’re using Lifestyle, a premium/paid theme based on Genesis that is not supported in these forums. It’s best to go to the support site where you bought the theme – http://www.studiopress.com/forums/ – for help with customizations and issues. You paid for support when you bought the theme, so you should contact the people who sold you the theme.

These forums are for free themes available in the WordPress theme directory at http://wordpress.org/themes/. See http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Commercial_Products

HTML5 is fault tolerant, so minor markup errors like that don’t impact browser display or SEO.

You do need to fix missing closing divs and other errors that will impact layout. Read the validator report and carefully look at the html and php in your theme files. And make sure you have valid code in any post/pages you have edited in the WordPress editor.

That particular error you mention above can be fixed by unhooking DNS prefetch, but that can slow your site. Add

remove_action( 'wp_head', 'wp_resource_hints', 2 );

to your theme’s functions.php file.

But, you’re using Thesis, a premium theme not supported in these forums. So you need to get help from Thesis to edit their unique theme files.

A “The connection was reset” error is a host server error. You can read reactions to Network Solutions hosting: https://wordpress.org/search/network+solutions?forums=1

The WordPress team has provided a list of recommended hosting providers. For more details and other recommendations, please search through the forums or via Google (or your preferred search engine).

My deployed site, https://my-website.com, is not based off of WordPress but simply queries the WordPress API to display posts…..Blocked loading mixed active content “https://www.consultanttrack.com/wp-json/wp/v2/profiles/?per_page=100&orderby=menu_order&order=asc”

You are using a site “based” on WordPress. That’s why you had the admin backend where you changed the Site Address (URL) and WordPress Address (URL).

Clearly it’s not as obvious as adding an “s” and for that I admit my naivete. ..

If you need/want an https, you need an SSL certificate installed in your web hosting account. That’s required for https.

I am disappointed at the lack of proper error handling at this state — there was no prompt or warning about the severity of my actions;..

There are a billion ways to break things. WordPress can’t possibly protect all the possibilities of being broken. If those site options were locked; people would complain about that, too.

or 2) enable SSL on the webserver to allow HTTPS…

That’s what you need to do. Your name-servers point to fuzzco.com, which runs on Linode. Whoever runs fuzzco needs to install an SSL for your site at Linode.

But first, if you want the site back up now as http, get FTP or SSH access and revert to http by editing the database or editing wp-config.php as per the instructions linked above. Then you’re back up; then you can get an SSL installed. then you can change to https.

Be sure to reupload wp-includes and wp-admin folders; could be some missing files.

And you could still be bumping up against MySQL limits at the host. Who is the host?