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And if that doesn’t work, clear any WordPress caching plugins and/or server-side caches. The pages show up as excerpts in searches.

Try going to the permalinks settings and resaving to flush and recreate.

You can use your files with a new database, but you won’t have your content or any configuration, users, etc… because that was in the database.

Try going to the permalinks setting page and re-saving.

This is most likely handled by your theme. You can either edit the theme (not advisable), create a child theme and make the change there (better, if the theme supports it), or just use CSS to hide the links. Some themes have the ability to add CSS through options–look under Appearance and see if there’s a CSS editor there for your theme. DO NOT make the change in Appearance > Editor, because that would be editing the theme, and as soon as you update the theme, your changes will be gone. If your theme doesn’t support CSS tweaking, you can install Jetpack, which has a CSS editor.

Set it to anything other than the default. I personally tend to use “Day and name,” “Month and name,” or “Post name,” depending on the site.

If you already set up “pretty” permalinks, you’re most of the way there. You don’t have to code anything extra. Just make organize the pages into parent and child pages as described in this article:

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Pages#Organizing_Your_Pages

Is the hosting provider doing caching on the server (not via plugin)? Also are you clearing the cache in your browser before you reload the site?

Is this a multisite network installation?
Did you do the installation yourself?

If the theme requires WooCommerce to function, then you would install WooCommerce first. Otherwise it doesn’t matter. Just be aware if the theme comes with its own shopping cart built-in, you wouldn’t also install WooCommerce.

Is this a multisite network installation?
What role does your account have for the site (admin, editor, something else)?
Did you do the installation yourself?

Any chance there’s a backup of the database in the package? The content would all be stored in there, so if not, you might be out of luck.

Is this a multisite network installation? Are you logged in as an admin and looking at the dashboard? If so, it should look something like this:

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/File:dashboard-welcome.png

If yours doesn’t look like that, you are either not logged into the dashboard, or you might not have the admin role for the site.

Is “wordpress1” a page within a site you have installed on your domain, or is that the directory in which you installed WordPress? If it’s a page, you can just change the slug from “wordpress1” to “home” (see https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Pages#Changing_the_URL_of_Your_Pages). Otherwise it’s a bit more complicated.

Do you have access to the database? If so, try this:

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Changing_The_Site_URL#Changing_the_URL_directly_in_the_database