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1. Emanon1983
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I know this has been mentioned before but i have not found the solution!

   Here is my site, its a site all bout foxy bingo, i've spent all morning trying to change the permalinks to

   /%category%/%postname%/

   I'm not sure where the .htaccess goes

   If i put it in the root of my site, everything goes blank and i can't access anything

   If i put it the root of the theme then it loses all styling and still doesn't work!

   HELP

   <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   RewriteEngine On
   RewriteBase /
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
   RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
   </IfModule>

2. Samuel B
   moderator
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I think we may have been down this road
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks#Choosing_your_permalink_structure

   For performance reasons, it is not a good idea to start your permalink structure with the category, tag, author, or postname fields.

   also, are you sure you are on a linux server and can use pretty permalinks?
   If on a windows server - see this
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks#Permalinks_without_mod_rewrite

   if you are on a linux server, the .htaccess would definitely go in the root

   find out about your server and report back. :>)

3. Emanon1983
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   definitely sure i am on a linux server with Supanames...

   Still don't quite get why you shouldn't start with your category! Whats the best way for SEO, surely its category and then post name? I should figure out how to get it working first i guess

4. Samuel B
   moderator
   Posted 3 years ago #

   well wp assumes the category and you can use it - it just generates tons more queries
   I think you can achieve the same effect with just /%postname%/

   Also, try chmod 666 on .htaccess then try your custom permalinks
   if that works chmod back to 644

5. Emanon1983
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   the problem was, i was using textedit to change my htaccess file (rtf) and then uploading it and changing it to .htaccess.

   i should have been uploading the txt file so it was a case of the formatting in the rtf file!

   sorted - still want to know what the best url structure is

6. Emanon1983
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   so just site/postname is fine then?

7. Samuel B
   moderator
   Posted 3 years ago #

   sorted - still want to know what the best url structure is

   many many opinions on that
   in custom structure try just
   /%postname%/
   exactly like that
   might review this
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Search_Engine_Optimization_for_Wordpress

   glad you figured it out - you definitely want to keep rte's away from wordpress - posting, also

8. Emanon1983
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   maybe you could help me with my more important swf issue which isn't very pleasent for me ! ;) Here

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