“Static” Pages and Permalinks

  • lenocin

    (@lenocin)


    17 years, 1 month ago

    WordPress Noob…nuff said? 🙂

    I went and created several static pages, and implemented them by creating pages starting with a template declaration. Works fine, no problem there at all.

    In my header, I do a wp_list_pages to get all my page into a list, which I nicely styled into a navigation bar.

    Of course the links are “ugly” like ?page_id=3.

    So I went to the admin console, and set permalinks to “Day and Name”. After that the links in the navigation bar are like “mysite/about” which is great, but clicking it give me “page not found” errors.

    As far I’m aware, I’m not allowed to make configuration changes on my host (or I missed something).

    Any advice?

    PS: Great thing you guys got going here. Keep it up, I learned tons here!

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  • mccormicky

    (@mccormicky)

    17 years, 1 month ago

    If your website is hosted by godaddy there is a delay before permalinks get working.
    But I have seen this mess on other hosts,too.It’s when mod_rewrite is not set up correctly.It could also be that your .htaccess file is not being written to even if wordpress dashboard says “changes saved”.

    Not knowing what kind of permalink you changed from ?page_id=3 to

    Could it be
    day and name?
    month and name?
    numeric?
    custom?

    I can’t give you the .htaccess rules to try for those kinds of permalinks.
    To start you want to know who your host is.Then you want to call them and ask them how the server handles mod_rewrite. If you get a big “huh” change hosts!

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