incorrect reference for web page with unknown publication date and author Chicago 17

Ok so per the title, Zotero cannot make the bibliographical entry correctly for a web page with unknown publication date and author. Per Purdue OWL, https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/chicago_manual_17th_edition/cmos_formatting_and_style_guide/web_sources.html, about half way down the page, a citation would just be:

"Title." Website title. Access date. URL.

Zotero wants to make the bibliographic entry with the website title then page title, looking like:

Website title. "Title." Access date. URL.

EVEN weirder though, is in my bibliography where I do have 2 citations that have no author or publication date, they put them in order per the "Title" section, as if it was first.
Here is an example of what I mean, from my thesis:

Association of Art Museum Directors. “Report of the AAMD Task Force on the Spoilation of Art during the Nazi/World War II Era (1933-1945).” New York: Association of Art Museum Directors, June 4, 1998. https://aamd.org/sites/default/files/document/Report on the Spoliation of Nazi Era Art.pdf.

National Gallery of Art Collections. “Biography of A.S. Drey.” Accessed November 15, 2021. https://www.nga.gov/collection/provenance-info.8837.html#biography.

Cranach Digital Archive. “Biography of Lucas Cranach the Elder.” Accessed November 6, 2021. https://lucascranach.org/home/lucas-cranach#b0.

National Gallery of Art Collections. “Biography of the Paul Drey Gallery.” Accessed November 16, 2021. https://www.nga.gov/collection/provenance-info.723.html#biography.

Brooks, Philip. “Notes on Rare Books.” New York Times. November 27, 1938. ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times.

How can I fix this?
  • Update: not sure why it does this still, but I ended up just going through and fixing all 300 footnotes by hand, as well as the biblio citations.
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