Jonathon Leathers

You could try a fresh reinstall of WordPress since you have access to the FTP. That basically means deleting all of the WordPress files and folders except for wp-config.php and the folder wp-content. Download WordPress 4.0 and reupload all of the files and folders except wp-config-sample.php and the wp-content folder.

It sounds like the install didn’t actually install properly if it was missing files. Alternatively, GoDaddy actually has good customer support, you can always call them and they can help you out if it is an issue with them marking files as malware.

When I check your site with Pingdom I notice it takes over 5 seconds just waiting for your server to respond to it. There are definitely things you can do to speed up your site by using a caching plugin but I think that initial delay may be a hosting issue. Perhaps someone more familiar with hosting problems could verify or offer some more advice on how to fix that in particular.

You have something overriding your color:

#main_nav ul li a {
color: rgb(255,255,255);
}

I’m not sure how familiar you are with CSS but the above selector will override your “nav li.current-menu-item a” because it has one additional selector and it uses an ID (#main_nav) instead of a class.

Simplest fix is to change:
“nav li.current-menu-item a” to “#main_nav ul li.current-menu-item a”

If you want it to work for the footer as well you can do this:
#main_nav ul li.current-menu-item a,
#footer_nav ul li.current-menu-item a {
color: #CE0404;
font-weight: bold;
}

Do you have a link to the site to look at it in the developer tools to see if something is overriding that style?

If the theme is setup for it all you should need to do is the following:

In the backend of WordPress go to Posts -> Categories. Click on each individual category to edit a few fields including the Category Description.

Thanks for the reply. The more I played around with it I figured it must be that it just saves at maximum quality but this explains it even further. Thanks!

Only vector based images / graphics can be enlarged without the image / graphic being distorted. A JPEG or PNG is not vector based so it will become distorted if you make the image larger than it was originally.

The icon is white on a white background. You need to change the color of the icon. If you know CSS you are looking for “.x-icon-bars:before” in the “ethos.css” file.