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1. chirschi
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #
   

   I am using permalinks without the mod_rewrite, so my links all look like /index.php/%postname%/, which I am fine with. My problem is that if I have a period in the post name, and I use it's permalink to access it, I get back the message, "Sorry, no posts matched your criteria."
   I am using IIS if that makes a difference. Anyone got anything for me on this?

   Thanks,
   -Clint

2. chirschi
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #
   

   Anyone?

3. alerante
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #
   

   Periods cannot be used in post slugs; they're stripped out, so "test.123" becomes "test123". It seems kind of bizarre considering WordPress will let you put UTF-8 characters like ’ (rsquo) in them.

4. chirschi
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #
   

   Well, the link that WordPress makes for my permalinks includes the periods.. if I remove them manually, I still get the errot aht it can't find my post. I'd be happy to not have the periods in the permalinks if that would make it work.. am I using the right format for my permalinks?
   /index.php/%postname%/

   ?

5. chirschi
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #
   

   Just as a resolution... you wree right, alerante, that the post slugs shouldn't have periods in them and normally they are removed. However, I imported a bunch of posts using the RSS importer in WordPress and it appears to have messed up the slugs with special characters in them...

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