Well, it is not a scaling problem. The two latest posts look like they have a metadata problem. The date, and publisher are frozen, and, while you can add new posts, they will always appear with the wrong metadata, and the gray box is because it doesn’t see the featured image. Is this a caching issue?
Another oddity: While the sliding portion of the Home Main Slider works properly, the static two items are not polling the correct category–it is just putting up the two latest posts. I have changed categories a few time as a test, but the result is always the same…