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Your error message is:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘<‘ in /home/vg007web04/53/56/3015653/web/wp-content/themes/gridspace/functions.php on line 151

You will have to look at your function.php file. This is likely to be a stray < within php tags. If you had an extra < in text, it might wreck you theme but you would see something. Perhaps you have forgot to quote stuff in an echo line.

google site verification, if that is what you are talking about, goes in a meta tag in the header. But this a php problem.

I did not experience great support when I was unwittingly used as a beta tester years ago. The author had named a table column for what became a reserve word when MySQL upgrades. The author seemed not understand the problem and became very rude. I had to hack to get his plug into work. Eventually he upgraded MySQL and realized what he had done, but I did not get a word of apology.

Background images set in stylesheets are relative to the stylesheet.
If your styles are in your theme then the right path is
“images/mybackground.gif”

But IMG SRC in documents must have a path relative to the document.
In the case of wp documents that would be ‘path-to-wp/wp-content/themes/yourthemename/images/yourpic.jpg’ if you really want to keep your images there.

path-to-wp/ might be nothing if you installed wp in your web root directory, or it might be blog/ if you installed wp in a subdirectory called blog. remove the slash too if path-to-wp/ is nothing.

It is often more convenient to have your content images in their own directory. So wherever wp is, you can create a directory for your content images in that directory. then src=’images/mypic.jpg’ will be right and it will be right even if you change themes.