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Sounds like WordPress .htaccess file configuration corrupted.Please rename current WordPress .htaccess file in WordPress root directory to .htaccess.bak and then create a new .htaccess file with the following contents.

# 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

This will resolve the issue.

You can also refer the following WordPress documentation to get more information about WordPress .htaccess files.

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/htaccess

How do I know that I am in the root directory? I am using bluehost to access the ftp and the file keeps opening in a notepad document instead of the filezilla client.This is what I see;
<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″ standalone=”true”?>
<FileZilla3>
<Servers>
<Server>
<Host>ftp.greatyoungme.com</Host>
<Port>21</Port>
<Protocol>ftp</Protocol>
<Type>0</Type>
<User>[email protected]</User>
<Logontype>2</Logontype>
<TimezoneOffset>0</TimezoneOffset>
<PasvMode>MODE_DEFAULT</PasvMode>
<MaximumMultipleConnections>0</MaximumMultipleConnections>
<EncodingType>Auto</EncodingType>
<BypassProxy>0</BypassProxy>
<Name>ftp.greatyoungme.com</Name>
<Comments/>
<LocalDir/>
<RemoteDir/>
<SyncBrowsing>0</SyncBrowsing>
https://ftp.greatyoungme.com
</Server>
</Servers>
</FileZilla3>

Ktwrite, the root directory is a familiar abuse of technical language, because it’s much simpler like that. In a wordpress context, “root” means “the default place where your hosting account is set to make you place files for the web”.

For some it will be the first place that is loaded when they use an FTP client, for some others it will be require to move one folder deeper, in /public_html/ , for some others it’s /htdocs/, or /www/…

Usually, a wordpress blog is placed at the root, but sometimes, it will be placed in a subdirectory of the root folder. Can’t tell how it is for you.

Now, the snipped you gave isn’t an htaccess file.

You need to go with your FTP client to the place that will contain the wp-config.php file , and in there, you will also notice a .htaccess file: that’s the one whose contents is needed.

I’ve been trying for the past hour to configure the ftp client using filezilla and it keeps saying that it can’t load the directory listing. I’ve never done this before so I don’t know if maybe I’m doing something wrong, do you have any ideas? I use bluehost…

I think this is a question that would be best answered by your web host, Ktwrite, they’ll be quite familiar with manners of helping customers deal with Filezilla for the first time, try asking them ??

thank you,I will.

I think I was able to fix it. I followed the instructions above after Bluehost helped me configure FTP. The only thing was that after I changed the .htaccess file the pages/posts still didn’t come up, so I changed the layout of the page and they came back. The only thing about that is that one of my stock photos has become an advertisement….do you know why this would happen? Its not a huge deal I can take it out, I think, but I’m just curious.

No idea, but this isn’t supposed to happen. Maybe something with your stock photos provider ?