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1. tracyberna
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   A client of mine is having trouble with what I put in the title: pretty permalinks work for every page but the one she's designated for posts, which still generates a page id URL.

   Her custom permalink structure is /%category%/%postname%/ In practice this seems to generate a URL of "sitename.com/pagetitle," since, as we know, pages don't have categories. Her posts page also comes out without a category in front of it, just the page id.

   Her sidebar code is this:

   <div id="right">
   <a href="http://www.domain.com/" id="nav-home" class="box_right_top">Home</a>
   <a href="http://www.domain.com/?page_id=3"  id="nav-about" class="box_right_top">About Margaret</a>
   <a href="http://www.domain.com/page_id=60"  id="nav-articles" class="box_right_top">Articles</a>
   <a href="http://www.domain.com/?page_id=5"  id="nav-publications" class="box_right_top">Publications</a>
   <a href="http://www.domain.com/poetry-and-plays/"  id="nav-poetry" class="box_right_top">Poetry and Plays</a>
   <a href="http://www.domain.com/?page_id=7"  id="nav-events" class="box_right_top">Events</a>
   <a href="http://www.domain.com/?page_id=9"  id="nav-radioshows" class="box_right_top">Radio Shows</a>
   <a href="http://www.domain.com/?page_id=11"  id="nav-studio" class="box_right_top">Studio History</a>
   
      <br /> <br />
   <?php
   if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar('Simple Top Nav') ) : ?>
   <!--YOUR OLD NAVIGATION -->
   <?php
   endif;
   ?>
   </div>

   Can anyone tell me what might be the problem?

2. Michael Fields
   Theme Wrangler
   Posted 2 years ago #

   The problem is that you have all of the links in the "right" div hard-coded in you html. You will want to use the get_permalink function.

   Instead of:

   <a href="http://www.domain.com/?page_id=3" id="nav-about" class="box_right_top">About Margaret</a>

   Use:

   <a href="<?php get_permalink( 3 ); ?>" id="nav-about" class="box_right_top">About Margaret</a>

3. tracyberna
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Okay, I just gave that a try - I copied and pasted from your example - and the result just sent me back to the home page. It returned the URL "www.domain.com" with nothing after it.

   But hard-coding still might be the problem - anything else I could try?

4. Michael Fields
   Theme Wrangler
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Opps. There was a small oversight in my code. Please try this one:

   <a href="<?php print get_permalink( 3 ); ?>" id="nav-about" class="box_right_top">About Margaret</a>

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