Hello Montgomery,
i contacted my web hosting service provider and this is what they said:
"We have removed the htaccess files from File Manager, but our back end team let us know that the issue might be due to the plugin or some problems in the blog itself.Since we have very limited support on WordPress, I would suggest that you contact a developer to get the issue resolved".
The error "500 - internal server error" persists when I clic on the sitemap link.
what else can I do?
Thanks.
Regards,
MJ