top level page slug

  • Resolved grough

    (@grough)


    16 years, 7 months ago

    Hi,

    I’m using WordPress’ Pages as a simple CMS. Is it possible to use a Page’s slug at the top level to create a short URL?

    for example, to have the page http://example.com/about to link to a Page with the slug “about”.

    I imagine this is possible, but don’t really see any options in the admin panel for Page URL/permalink structure, only for Posts.

    Thanks

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  • Jeremy Clark

    (@jeremyclark13)

    16 years, 7 months ago

    Changing the permailink structure to date and named based will accomplish that.

    Thread Starter grough

    (@grough)

    16 years, 7 months ago

    Thanks – this generates the correct URL structure, but I’m getting 404s on all Pages now. Running Apache 1.3. Any ideas?

    Jeremy Clark

    (@jeremyclark13)

    16 years, 7 months ago

    Do you have mod rewrite installed and working.

    Chris_K

    (@handysolo)

    16 years, 7 months ago

    Make sure your .htaccess was updated after visiting Options -> Permalinks. Or, while there, scroll down and make sure WP isn’t asking you to manually make changes (it’ll do that if it can’t create/open your .htaccess file).

    Make sure your host supports mod_rewrite and has enabled AllowOverrides.

    More troubleshooting at the Permalinks page, or just search here for permalinks.

    Thread Starter grough

    (@grough)

    16 years, 7 months ago

    My .htaccess file isn’t being updated, and WP isn’t asking me to manually make changes.

    Jeremy Clark

    (@jeremyclark13)

    16 years, 7 months ago

    Change permissions on your .htaccess to 666 then update your permalink settings.

    Thread Starter grough

    (@grough)

    16 years, 7 months ago

    Thanks, that works 🙂

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