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Okay, will do. I hope you have a great evening and again, thanks so much!

If I edit the Permalink to take off the 4 after contact us, I get the 404 error again, so I went back in and added back the 4. Not a huge deal, I can research that later, unless you quickly know of another way to do it. I don’t want to take any more of your time. :):)

Yes, I will do that. (take off the 4)

Hey, if you can stick with me one more minute, I at one time had the Contact Form 7 plug in installed and it was working. Now, when I put in what I think I had before, which is:
[bestwebsoft_contact_form]
that is what shows up on website instead of the actual contact form.

If you are tired of this it’s okay. I am so happy to get rid of the 404 error and appreciate your help more than I can say!

I have definitely created more than one version of the Contact Us page, in all my messing around with it. There are 5 versions in the trash bin. I deleted them. Well, halleluiah! It is apparently fixed (right?)!!!!

Under Customize, Front Page Displays, A STATIC PAGE is selected.

Front Page is TRANSCRIPTION MADE EASY

Posts Page – nothing is selected

Thank you again and again!

Under the page title, the Permalink is:
https://www.thedailytranscription.com/contact-us-4/

Working on 2nd suggestion now –

So, I changed to default permalink, saved changes, then went back and selected POSTNAME, but still 404 error.

Yes, that’s how it looks. So POSTNAME is selected, and under CUSTOMSTRUCTURE (which is not selected) it has /%postname%/. Is that correct?

When I looked at the menu under Appearance, it says Contact Us. Can you tell me where to change the place where it says “Contact Me?”

Thanks.

Thanks again. When I right clicked the file, change permissions did not come up, so not sure what’s going on there.

Through reading and researching, I did reset the permalinks to default and saved the changes, but the 404 did not go away. I will try that again, but could you say more about “reset the permalinks to your custom preference,” because I’m not sure what the custom preference is.

Meanwhile, I’m looking at the menu item as you suggested in your second point.

Back in a few, thanks so much.

Also, the files does have a dot, as in .htaccess, but I don’t see anywhere in the ftp file manager to view hidden files. I’m using GoDaddy. I’ll keep trying.

I went into my host control panel, found the file .htaccess. Next question is how to I make note of the current permissions? I don’t see the current permissions and don’t know how to access them. If I double click .htaccess, it opens windows with this info:

# 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

Thank you so much for your patience with me.

Thank you for writing. How do I make htaccess temporarily writable to WordPress?

I’m asking again for help on this. I’ve tried and researched many things. It must be simple, but I’m a newbie. Thank you so much!

I don’t know the answer to this, but would like to, if anyone can help. Thanks.