Papes do not load up

@thisisregina: Please put a menu in your theme so that WordPress generates a proper menu for you and you can check the links.

If you don’t have widgets in your theme please add <?php wp_list_pages(); ?> and see what you get.

Check the following options:
a) Your permalink settings – /%postname%/ ? If it is set it to default and than save it again so that a new .htaccess is generated.
b) Is your .htaccess file writable (permissions should be 775)
c) Can you see your pages properly in /wp-admin/ ? If you click the View button from inside editing a page where do you go?

Thanks @expromo
It all works fine in Localhost..

and yes my permalinks is set to /%postname%/

2- where do I find the .htaccess file? (this is my first WP site)

3- no, the pages don’t preview properly. but all the content is there.

@expromo

I found the .htaccess file. It was a hidden file.

Update your permalinks in .htaccess and this should force WordPress to update the permalink structure and then write the necessary stuff to the .htaccess file (make sure it has write permissions on the server).

Where can I go to set writing permissions to the file?

Thanks @equalmark

In your web hosts control panel.

My .htaccess looke like this:

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

# END WordPress

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and I changed it to:

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

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and still having the same problem.
For example, when I visit the page: https://rethinkretreats.com/index-wp.php (which exists by the way) I get the correct 404 page that I designed. but when I go to another page that should also be there – this page was dreated via WP and uses a template – https://rethinkretreats.com/venue it doesn’t load up and the 404 is the ugly default one by the hosting company.

Any ideas? Help! :{

Help pleassssee!

Fixed it, the problem had to do with the permalinks.

it had to be: index.php/%postname%/ (something like that)
other than just: /%postname%/

Cheers everyone for your help.