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  • Resolved caresque

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    Everything on site was working fine, including the Contact 7 plug-in, which I was using on a page. I was trying to link from another page to the contact page by using the URL (permalink). When testing the link I get this message:

    “Error 404: File Not Found
    The requested page is not found. This may happen due to the following reasons:
    Page or file is outdated, renamed, moved, or does not exist.
    You typed the address incorrectly, like http://www.example.com/pgae.html instead of http://www.example.com/page.html
    Please contact your webmaster if you are not sure what goes wrong.”

    I took the link out and when investigating the problem realized the code on my contact page [contact form 1 “contact form 1”] was different than the recommended code on the contact plugin page. I chnaged it. I have since completely lost the contact page. I get the above error message. In fact, I now get the above error message for ALL the pages in the site.

    Really, really frustrated as I’ve been working on this site all morning and it was working so beautifully. I tried deleting and reinstalling Contact 7; same result. I even tried reinstalling WebPress.

    Please help. Thanks.

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  • Thread Starter caresque

    (@caresque)

    WebPress = WordPress

    What if you deactivate the plugin and leave it inactive?

    Assuming that the page you were using had a link on the Pages menu of your site, you could have clicked on the page and the proper URL would have appeared in the address bar of your web browser.

    The problem was only the link. You really should not have changed anything else. If you can get into admin and put the page back to the way you had it, that will probably fix the new problem. The original problem seems like it could have been remedied just by making sure that the link you posted was correct.

    Thread Starter caresque

    (@caresque)

    Thanks for the answer, SS_Minnow. I really appreciate the fast response, but in going over (or trying to!) point by point what I’d done, I remember changing the permalinks! Reset them to the original setting and everything is back!! Thanks!!!

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