fhabermacher

Thank you Rohan. I purchased a WPBakery license, installed it, and indeed the main issue I had seems to be gone! Appreciate it.

Thank you, I get what you say. But I do not see how I can contact WPBakery support at the link you give; active support seems to be limited to people with subscriptions which I don’t have, so I don’t see a way to contact them (?).

Update: Hostgator support was able to solve it. Maybe the (to me cryptic) message I got from it helps: .htaccess file had too much code, and he removed some of that.
(you may understand better than I to which degree this may square with the info that I got that the issue would have been replicated on a blank WP install)

@oaoyadeyi Thank you. Yes here:

### WordPress Environment ###

WordPress address (URL): https://foodoffset.org
Site address (URL): https://foodoffset.org
WC Version: 6.0.0
REST API Version: ? 6.0.0
WC Blocks Version: ? 6.3.3
Action Scheduler Version: ? 3.3.0
WC Admin Version: ? 2.9.4
Log Directory Writable: ?
WP Version: 5.8.2
WP Multisite: –
WP Memory Limit: 256 MB
WP Debug Mode: ?
WP Cron: ?
Language: en_US
External object cache: –

### Server Environment ###

Server Info: Apache
PHP Version: 7.4.26
PHP Post Max Size: 516 MB
PHP Time Limit: 30
PHP Max Input Vars: 1000
cURL Version: 7.80.0
OpenSSL/1.1.1l

SUHOSIN Installed: –
MySQL Version: 5.6.41-84.1
Max Upload Size: 512 MB
Default Timezone is UTC: ?
fsockopen/cURL: ?
SoapClient: ?
DOMDocument: ?
GZip: ?
Multibyte String: ?
Remote Post: ?
Remote Get: ?

### Database ###

WC Database Version: 6.0.0
WC Database Prefix: wp_
Total Database Size: 4.95MB
Database Data Size: 4.20MB
Database Index Size: 0.75MB
wp_woocommerce_sessions: Data: 0.01MB + Index: 0.00MB + Engine MyISAM
wp_woocommerce_api_keys: Data: 0.00MB + Index: 0.00MB + Engine MyISAM
wp_woocommerce_attribute_taxonomies: Data: 0.00MB + Index: 0.00MB + Engine MyISAM
wp_woocommerce_downloadable_product_permissions: Data: 0.00MB + Index: 0.00MB + Engine MyISAM
wp_woocommerce_order_items: Data: 0.00MB + Index: 0.00MB + Engine MyISAM
wp_woocommerce_order_itemmeta: Data: 0.00MB + Index: 0.00MB + Engine MyISAM
wp_woocommerce_tax_rates: Data: 0.00MB + Index: 0.00MB + Engine MyISAM
wp_woocommerce_tax_rate_locations: Data: 0.00MB + Index: 0.00MB + Engine MyISAM
wp_woocommerce_shipping_zones: Data: 0.00MB + Index: 0.00MB + Engine MyISAM
wp_woocommerce_shipping_zone_locations: Data: 0.00MB + Index: 0.00MB + Engine MyISAM
wp_woocommerce_shipping_zone_methods: Data: 0.00MB + Index: 0.00MB + Engine MyISAM
wp_woocommerce_payment_tokens: Data: 0.00MB + Index: 0.00MB + Engine MyISAM
wp_woocommerce_payment_tokenmeta: Data: 0.00MB + Index: 0.00MB + Engine MyISAM
wp_woocommerce_log: Data: 0.00MB + Index: 0.00MB + Engine MyISAM
wp_actionscheduler_actions: Data: 0.08MB + Index: 0.13MB + Engine InnoDB
wp_actionscheduler_claims: Data: 0.02MB + Index: 0.02MB + Engine InnoDB
wp_actionscheduler_groups: Data: 0.02MB + Index: 0.02MB + Engine InnoDB
wp_actionscheduler_logs: Data: 0.06MB + Index: 0.03MB + Engine InnoDB
wp_commentmeta: Data: 0.00MB + Index: 0.00MB + Engine MyISAM
wp_comments: Data: 0.00MB + Index: 0.01MB + Engine MyISAM
wp_cp_contact_form_paypal_discount_codes: Data: 0.00MB + Index: 0.00MB + Engine MyISAM
wp_cp_contact_form_paypal_posts: Data: 0.00MB + Index: 0.00MB + Engine MyISAM
wp_cp_contact_form_paypal_settings: Data: 0.00MB + Index: 0.00MB + Engine MyISAM
wp_links: Data: 0.00MB + Index: 0.00MB + Engine MyISAM
wp_options: Data: 2.75MB + Index: 0.06MB + Engine MyISAM
wp_postmeta: Data: 0.14MB + Index: 0.03MB + Engine MyISAM
wp_posts: Data: 0.79MB + Index: 0.05MB + Engine MyISAM
wp_sgpb_subscribers: Data: 0.02MB + Index: 0.00MB + Engine InnoDB
wp_sgpb_subscription_error_log: Data: 0.02MB + Index: 0.00MB + Engine InnoDB
wp_termmeta: Data: 0.00MB + Index: 0.01MB + Engine MyISAM
wp_terms: Data: 0.00MB + Index: 0.01MB + Engine MyISAM
wp_term_relationships: Data: 0.00MB + Index: 0.00MB + Engine MyISAM
wp_term_taxonomy: Data: 0.00MB + Index: 0.00MB + Engine MyISAM
wp_usermeta: Data: 0.02MB + Index: 0.02MB + Engine MyISAM
wp_users: Data: 0.00MB + Index: 0.01MB + Engine MyISAM
wp_wc_admin_notes: Data: 0.05MB + Index: 0.00MB + Engine InnoDB
wp_wc_admin_note_actions: Data: 0.02MB + Index: 0.02MB + Engine InnoDB
wp_wc_category_lookup: Data: 0.02MB + Index: 0.00MB + Engine InnoDB
wp_wc_customer_lookup: Data: 0.02MB + Index: 0.03MB + Engine InnoDB
wp_wc_download_log: Data: 0.00MB + Index: 0.00MB + Engine MyISAM
wp_wc_order_coupon_lookup: Data: 0.02MB + Index: 0.03MB + Engine InnoDB
wp_wc_order_product_lookup: Data: 0.02MB + Index: 0.06MB + Engine InnoDB
wp_wc_order_stats: Data: 0.02MB + Index: 0.05MB + Engine InnoDB
wp_wc_order_tax_lookup: Data: 0.02MB + Index: 0.03MB + Engine InnoDB
wp_wc_product_meta_lookup: Data: 0.02MB + Index: 0.09MB + Engine InnoDB
wp_wc_rate_limits: Data: 0.02MB + Index: 0.02MB + Engine InnoDB
wp_wc_reserved_stock: Data: 0.02MB + Index: 0.00MB + Engine InnoDB
wp_wc_tax_rate_classes: Data: 0.02MB + Index: 0.02MB + Engine InnoDB
wp_wc_webhooks: Data: 0.00MB + Index: 0.00MB + Engine MyISAM

### Post Type Counts ###

acf-field: 14
acf-field-group: 1
attachment: 56
custom_css: 1
customize_changeset: 2
nav_menu_item: 20
page: 49
popupbuilder: 1
post: 6
product: 3
revision: 190
shop_order: 1
wpcf7_contact_form: 1

### Security ###

Secure connection (HTTPS): ?
Hide errors from visitors: ?Error messages should not be shown to visitors.

### Active Plugins (2) ###

WooCommerce Payments: by Automattic – 3.4.0
WooCommerce: by Automattic – 6.0.0

### Inactive Plugins (21) ###

Advanced Custom Fields: Font Awesome: by mattkeys – 3.1.2
Advanced Editor Tools (previously TinyMCE Advanced): by Automattic – 5.6.0
Akismet Anti-Spam: by Automattic – 4.2.1
BackWPup: by Inpsyde GmbH – 3.10.0
Better Search Replace: by Delicious Brains – 1.3.4
Contact Form 7: by Takayuki Miyoshi – 5.5.3
Gambit Pro: by ThemeZee – 1.0
Header and Footer Scripts: by Digital Liberation – 2.2.1
Hello Dolly: by Matt Mullenweg – 1.7.2
Hostgator WalkMe Plugin: by Snappy – 1.0
Jetpack: by Automattic – 10.4
Magee Shortcodes: by Hoosoft – 2.0.7
Maxwell Pro: by ThemeZee – 1.0.2
Media Library Assistant: by David Lingren – 2.98
MOJO Marketplace: by Mike Hansen – 0.7.1
My Custom Fields: by Venkat –
New Visual Composer: by Michael M - WPBakery.com – 5.1.1
Popup Builder: by Sygnoos – 4.0.6
Really Simple SSL: by Really Simple Plugins – 5.2.1
Secondary Title: by Kolja Nolte – 2.0.8
WordPress Importer: by wordpressdotorg – 0.7

### Settings ###

API Enabled: ?
Force SSL: –
Currency: GBP (￡)
Currency Position: left
Thousand Separator: ,
Decimal Separator: .
Number of Decimals: 2
Taxonomies: Product Types: external (external)
grouped (grouped)
simple (simple)
variable (variable)

Taxonomies: Product Visibility: exclude-from-catalog (exclude-from-catalog)
exclude-from-search (exclude-from-search)
featured (featured)
outofstock (outofstock)
rated-1 (rated-1)
rated-2 (rated-2)
rated-3 (rated-3)
rated-4 (rated-4)
rated-5 (rated-5)

Connected to WooCommerce.com: –

### WC Pages ###

Shop base: #36 - /shop/
Cart: #37 - /cart/
Checkout: #38 - /checkout/
My account: #39 - /my-account/
Terms and conditions: ? Page not set

### Theme ###

Name: Storefront
Version: 3.9.1
Author URL: https://woocommerce.com/
Child Theme: ? – If you are modifying WooCommerce on a parent theme that you did not build personally we recommend using a child theme. See: How to create a child theme
WooCommerce Support: ?

### Templates ###

Overrides: –

### WooCommerce Payments ###

Version: 3.4.0
Connected to WPCOM: No
Blog ID: -
Account ID: -

### Action Scheduler ###

Complete: 156
Oldest: 2021-12-14 19:00:30 +0000
Newest: 2021-12-21 13:48:47 +0000

### Status report information ###

Generated at: 2021-12-22 08:35:09 +00:00

I’ve asked WooCommerce about this too in the meantime.