Hi,
Will be transferring all posts from 2 blogs from Blogger to WP soon but need to understand which permalink to use. I read the Codex but I am still a bit confused. My template designer said...
BTW, I checked out your URL structure and the Options->Permalink structure you want is this"/%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%.html". Hopefully that will keep your URL the same across the board.
I am not sure that I can get him to explain so could anyone here help me to understand his suggestion or offer me another one, if necessary? And, if I need to use my designers recommendation, do I tick one of the permalink options in the WP dash or would I need to enter "http://www.mysite.com/%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%.html" in the custom field?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Alan
in wordpress
admin - settings - permalinks
tick "custom" and enter this
/%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%.html
save
Thanks samboll!
Would you mind explaining why so that I can understand a bit better? As they say, it is better to teach a man to fish...well... you know the rest :)
Alan
samboll,
Thanks...I read that yesterday. It made more sense today with a clear head :) I do not, however, understand .htaccess & mod rewrite. Do I need to be concerned with them? FYI.... I am transfering posts from Blogger & trying to match the permalink structure so that I will not need a post url redirect from the Blogger postS to the same posts in WP. Does it sound like I am doing the right thing?
Thanks, Alan
PS - I tried making the permalink structure the same as Blogger's but there is a problem. Blogger seems to leave out the word "the" in post titles, a possibly more words. For example...I have a post url in Blogger called "Sorry for the Lack of Posts" with the url of...
http://www.happinesshelp.org/2009/05/sorry-for-lack-of-posts.html
The url for the same title in WordPress is... http://www.happinesshelp.org/2009/05/sorry-for-the-lack-of-posts.html
I don't know what to do. Any help would be appreciated.
Alan
Alan A
