djlender

sirspacey,
Sorry I haven’t responded back sooner. Anyway, if I remember correctly, I found out that the Page Meta plug-in wasn’t compatible with WordPress 3.2 or above. (It was either 3.2 or 3.0. Not entirely sure.) But I was able to use /%postname%.php in the ‘Custom Structure’ for the permalinks. It seems to change the URL to a friendly version. All I can say is to give it a try. It seems to work for me. I’m running version 3.2.1 right now and haven’t upgraded to the new version.
Good luck!!

smrdo,
Thanks for the reply. Can you clarify a little, though? Do I put the code you specified in the template before the call for the excerpt? And is the ‘template directory’ supposed to be the name of my WordPress theme? I’m a little confused. Most of my posts have an image first before the text. But I have the images in an ‘assets’ folder. I did not use the wysiwyg editor in the admin panel to insert them into the post. Does that make sense? Not sure if that makes a difference of where and how it would find and pull that first image.
Thanks again for your help!

Changing the theme doesn’t fix it either. I switched back to the twentyten theme and it still comes up with ‘Not Found’.

FYI, here is the code I’m using on the index.php page but it still isn’t showing up:

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I’m wondering if there is a PHP call in another page that is telling it where to look for the index page content.

Thanks, but even when I put my code in there it doesn’t show up when I pull up the main URL of my site. Keeps coming up with a 404 page. Any idea if there is a php call or something that needs to be configured correctly?