A little clarification please?

pMc
(@pmc)

19 years, 5 months ago

I have 2 questions about implementation of certain issues that I’m a little confused about.
#1 Permalinks
Are they JUST for blog entries? Or are they for every single link within WP? I want to use them, I’m just not sure how to name the permalinks in the config. I’m running into a little creative/mental block as for as what part of WP they are meant for. I understand what they do and how to implement them. For some reason I’m just not seeing the light and I hate this because I can pick stuff up quick and for some reason my mind just can’t “see” this.
Could someone provide some more examples or even your own site so I can “see” how they work?
#2 Static Pages
I want to create a menu on my site at the top using Kubrick’s template to have links to static pages within WP, like an About page for example. I’ve seen some posts here and there but nothing solid or reassuring enough as to how I implement this.
Anyone have an idea how to do this? I would really appreciate some examples or whatever. Should I create a category, then create a blog entry but just don’t allow comments in that entry? Seems like a whole lotta trouble to me.
Thanks in advance,
Paul

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Moderator James Huff
(@macmanx)

Volunteer Moderator

19 years, 5 months ago

#1: I’m using permalinks over at my site: http://www.macmanx.com/ Does that help explain what you’re looking for? They affect the links to your posts, categories, archives, and feeds. I like them and they keep everything looking nice. Don’t worry if someone’s all ready bookmarked something, the old URLs will continue to work as well.
#2: You can create an “about” post and turn off comments, then create a link to that in your sidebar. Sort of a “backwards” way of doing it, but it works.

moshu
(@moshu)

19 years, 5 months ago

1. Yes they are for the blog entries. What else do you have in a blog? 🙂
They are used to have “nicer” and more understandable links to every post/entry. Instead of having an URI like
http://www.example.com/wordpress/index.php/?cat=2 or
http://www.example.com/wordpress/index.php/?p=543 …
for your archives, categories etc. you’ll have the link structure you select on the Permalinks options page.
2. Better check out on the kubrick page/faq/support.

Kafkaesqui
(@kafkaesqui)

19 years, 5 months ago

#2: Check out Faked Folders, which may provide what you’re looking for. Additionally, WordPress 1.3 should make static pages easy to do.

Anonymous

19 years, 5 months ago

I just took a copy of my index.php, renamed it to “about”.php and stripped the code from the blog section and edited it to what I wanted. Did that for my “Favorites” page as well.
http://mymessymind.net