cynnie88

Remove the theme, then try again.

I don’t see how this has anything to do with your site. If you are building a new site, use a fresh wordpress installation.

Wow you are doing pretty much everything wrong. Go read the documentation on creating themes and template files.

Without actually digging into your files to debug it, the only advice I can suggest is to rebuild the shortcodes in your functions.php.

I don’t know what you mean by ‘Word’ styling. If it’s markup you want to clear i don’t think it would be difficult to write a script to strip all tag elements from posts.

I have absolutely no idea what you are asking.

I don’t know what web host you are using, but the database address might not be ‘localhost’. Many hosts run separate servers for their databases.

It’s redirecting you because it still has your original url in the database, like I said before, you are going to have to do a search and replace.

I suggest doing a fresh install of wordpress on your local machine and not importing the sql from your live site.

If you must import the sql, you are going to have to do a search and replace for the url of the live site and change it to your local address.

And if you are using a clone of the database, then the username and password should be the same, make sure you have identical salts in your wp-config.php.

One solution would be to put a more tag above the shortcode. Another would be to remove the shortcode in your functions file for your homepage.

More examples:
Load script in header

function load_header_scripts(){
     wp_enqueue_script('global', 'https://www.xertionfitness.com/.../global.js');
}
add_action('init', 'load_header_scripts');

Load script in footer

function load_footer_scripts(){
    wp_enqueue_script('global', 'https://www.xertionfitness.com/.../global.js', false, false, true);
}
add_action('init', 'load_footer_scripts')

Both of these will be loaded at the same time on the server, but on the front end will be loaded at different times in the browser.

for example:

if( is_front_page() ){
    wp_enqueue_script('global', 'https://www.xertionfitness.com/.../global.js');
}

In the demo site, everything under the blog menu is just the category template, there is nothing to setup. Any categories you create should automatically use that template.

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Conditional_Tags

You are going to have to be a little clearer, and focus on one problem at a time.