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Well, good idea, and I tried turning off comments (there isn’t a blog on my site), but the comment space was still there, and I could still successfully enter a comment.

Thanks, @matumu,

I do have the latest version of the events calendar, I went back to the 2016 theme, deactivated all of my plug-ins except theeventscalendar, cleared the browser cache, and yet there is still a comment space for each event. I tried entering a comment, and I could do so successfully.

What would you suggest for a next step?

Yes, and I seem to have solved the problem. I think I just didn’t have the correct degree of nesting: the folder I point MAMP to has to contain a folder that in turn contains the WordPress site, evidently. I had pointed MAMP at the folder containing the files of the site, not a folder containing those files. Adding that second folder made all go smoothly. As I said, I was sure it was something elementary, and it was, but bit hard to diagnose!

Thanks very much for the replies.

Yes, MAMP is running. The complete path to the wordpress folder is /Users/WEWilliams/Sites/wordpress. And at least the way I installed it, I think the MAMP URL is https://localhost:8888 rather thanm 8080. I tried setting up a second wordpress install in htdocs in the MAMP folder (and, of course, changing MAMP’s settings to point there), and that, too, resulted in a not found.

Thanks much for your reply! At my level, there’s no such thing as a silly question.