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There was a notice, but I just had not notice it. Thank you again for the prompt replies.

Problem solved. The program works like a charm. Great service!

Problem solved! I upgraded to the latest version of wordpress and the plugin now appears under Permalinks.

Thanks for your help Janneke!

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Quantcast Quantifier
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WP Float
WP Hide Post
WP Post Columns
WP Smush.it

Thank you for answering.
Yes the plugin is active. Under the permalinks tab, there is nothing, except under the ‘save” button there is a box displaying the contents of the htaccess file. But no button or anything indicating the presence of Rename wp-login.

COuld the above error message have something to do the fact that I have TWO .htaccess files under the same root folder with possibly conflicting or superfluous instructions?

These are the contents if that second .htaccess file:

# BEGIN WPSuperCache
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} !POST
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !.*=.*
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Cookie} !^.*(comment_author_|wordpress_logged_in|wp-postpass_).*$
RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Wap-Profile} !^[a-z0-9\”]+ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Profile} !^[a-z0-9\”]+ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !^.*(2.0\ MMP|240×320|400X240|AvantGo|BlackBerry|Blazer|Cellphone|Danger|DoCoMo|Elaine/3.0|EudoraWeb|Googlebot-Mobile|hiptop|IEMobile|KYOCERA/WX310K|LG/U990|MIDP-2.|MMEF20|MOT-V|NetFront|Newt|Nintendo\ Wii|Nitro|Nokia|Opera\ Mini|Palm|PlayStation\ Portable|portalmmm|Proxinet|ProxiNet|SHARP-TQ-GX10|SHG-i900|Small|SonyEricsson|Symbian\ OS|SymbianOS|TS21i-10|UP.Browser|UP.Link|webOS|Windows\ CE|WinWAP|YahooSeeker/M1A1-R2D2|iPhone|iPod|Android|BlackBerry9530|LG-TU915\ Obigo|LGE\ VX|webOS|Nokia5800).* [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_user_agent} !^(w3c\ |w3c-|acs-|alav|alca|amoi|audi|avan|benq|bird|blac|blaz|brew|cell|cldc|cmd-|dang|doco|eric|hipt|htc_|inno|ipaq|ipod|jigs|kddi|keji|leno|lg-c|lg-d|lg-g|lge-|lg/u|maui|maxo|midp|mits|mmef|mobi|mot-|moto|mwbp|nec-|newt|noki|palm|pana|pant|phil|play|port|prox|qwap|sage|sams|sany|sch-|sec-|send|seri|sgh-|shar|sie-|siem|smal|smar|sony|sph-|symb|t-mo|teli|tim-|tosh|tsm-|upg1|upsi|vk-v|voda|wap-|wapa|wapi|wapp|wapr|webc|winw|winw|xda\ |xda-).* [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Encoding} gzip
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/wp-content/cache/supercache/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1/index.html.gz -f
RewriteRule ^(.*) “/wp-content/cache/supercache/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1/index.html.gz” [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} !POST
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !.*=.*
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Cookie} !^.*(comment_author_|wordpress_logged_in|wp-postpass_).*$
RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Wap-Profile} !^[a-z0-9\”]+ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Profile} !^[a-z0-9\”]+ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !^.*(2.0\ MMP|240×320|400X240|AvantGo|BlackBerry|Blazer|Cellphone|Danger|DoCoMo|Elaine/3.0|EudoraWeb|Googlebot-Mobile|hiptop|IEMobile|KYOCERA/WX310K|LG/U990|MIDP-2.|MMEF20|MOT-V|NetFront|Newt|Nintendo\ Wii|Nitro|Nokia|Opera\ Mini|Palm|PlayStation\ Portable|portalmmm|Proxinet|ProxiNet|SHARP-TQ-GX10|SHG-i900|Small|SonyEricsson|Symbian\ OS|SymbianOS|TS21i-10|UP.Browser|UP.Link|webOS|Windows\ CE|WinWAP|YahooSeeker/M1A1-R2D2|iPhone|iPod|Android|BlackBerry9530|LG-TU915\ Obigo|LGE\ VX|webOS|Nokia5800).* [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_user_agent} !^(w3c\ |w3c-|acs-|alav|alca|amoi|audi|avan|benq|bird|blac|blaz|brew|cell|cldc|cmd-|dang|doco|eric|hipt|htc_|inno|ipaq|ipod|jigs|kddi|keji|leno|lg-c|lg-d|lg-g|lge-|lg/u|maui|maxo|midp|mits|mmef|mobi|mot-|moto|mwbp|nec-|newt|noki|palm|pana|pant|phil|play|port|prox|qwap|sage|sams|sany|sch-|sec-|send|seri|sgh-|shar|sie-|siem|smal|smar|sony|sph-|symb|t-mo|teli|tim-|tosh|tsm-|upg1|upsi|vk-v|voda|wap-|wapa|wapi|wapp|wapr|webc|winw|winw|xda\ |xda-).* [NC]
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/wp-content/cache/supercache/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1/index.html -f
RewriteRule ^(.*) “/wp-content/cache/supercache/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1/index.html” [L]
</IfModule>
# END WPSuperCache

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

What does this code do (since this is repeated on the other htaccess file as well?

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

Did that, and got this as a message:

Safari can’t open the page.
Too many redirects occurred trying to open “https://www.gallbladderdetox.com/gall-bladder-surgery?fb_xd_fragment=”. This might occur if you open a page that is redirected to open another page which then is redirected to open the original page.

Thanks again for the help. Much appreciated.

Thank you very much, for your help.

However, the problem still persists. It went back to the same page, with the target page that comes up momentarily and then comes back to the blank page. I did find something peculiar:

1) BEGIN WordPress section. I do not know what it is and if it has anything to do with it. Here is the entire .htaccass file

# BEGIN WPSuperCache
# END WPSuperCache

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

# BEGIN 301 Redirect STATIC pages to correct pages
Redirect 301 /should-i-undergo-gall-bladder-surgery https://www.gallbladderdetox.com/gall-bladder-surgery
Redirect 301 /this-is-a-test https://www.gallbladderdetox.com/no-longer-exists

# BEGIN 301 Redirect DYNAMIC pages to correct pages
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^fb_xd_fragment=$
RewriteRule ^gall-bladder-surgery$ https://www.gallbladderdetox.com/gall-bladder-surgery [R=301,L]

# END 301 Redirect DYNAMIC pages

2) I also found a second .htaccess in the same root directory with the same ‘BEGIN wordpress’ section above. Maybe I could move the new 301 redirects to that .htacess file instead and then delete the this one.

Thank you again Ipstenu.