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1. Damien Saunders
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi there

   I just installed 3.0.1 and the update to 3.0.2 for a brand new multisite.

   as a complete newb, I changed the permalink settings to the 'recommended' best for Google & SEO which are

   /%category%/%postname%-%post_id%

   I've now noticed I can't access any new sites ... I'm using the subdomain method.

   The user can get to the setup page and receive the emails to activate their new site - but after that it all falls apart.

   I guess I broke the redirects / .httacccess file ?? but I'm not sure what I did wrong or what I should fix

   my site is at http://social-mix.com and any helper tips would be appreciated?

   cheers

   Damien

2. colegota
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I don't know what's the real problem. Maybe concatenation of postname and post_id with "-" "under the same slash" (%postname%-%post_id% instead of %postname%/%post_id%).

   But that's not recommended permalinks, but those not starting with text fields. So the ones started with date fields are recommended.

   Regards,
   Colegota

3. Andrea_r
   team pirate
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Change it back to what it was - see if it works?

   really, there's nothing I can think of why it would break. usually you can pick any permalink structure you want on each site.

   Not sure I'd agree that's the "best" permalink for google. pretty sure I've seen at least 4 different recommendations.

4. Damien Saunders
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi Andrea

   Ok .. so what was the default :)

   But having re-researched the SEO thing ... it was a post like this that got me started on /%category%/%postname%-%post_id%
   -- because Google News needs a unique ID in the postname

   http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/optimizing-wordpress-permalinks

   However I'm now going to change my existing site to %postname%-%post_id%

   cheers

   Damien

5. Damien Saunders
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi there

   just to finish this off ... i fixed my problem

   the wildcard redirect wasn't setup correctly as I host multiple domains

   i needed to set my wildcard redirect to the correct folder in my CPANEL

   *.social-mix.com --> public_html/social-mix.com

   silly me ...

   cheers

   Damien

6. Andrea_r
   team pirate
   Posted 1 year ago #

   glad you got it sorted. :)

   Also:

   -- because Google News needs a unique ID in the postname

   this is actually different than:

   best for Google & SEO

   Just clarifying for those playing the home game.

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