Set the permalinks to either day and name or month and name (even though there won’t be posts) to avoid problems and the pages will appear as whatever you name the page… IE about, orange, red.
Hi thisisedie,
If I use day+name, or month+name, I’m just worried it will look a bit silly, like:
http://www.mysite.com/2/orange/
people will be wondering what the 2 is about? What’s the danger if I just use the postname, will wordpress really blow up from that?
Thanks
Off the top of my head I can’t think of any specific problems just using /%postname%/ would cause but it’s not a good idea. Seriously, just try what I told you. It will render pages as whatever.com/pagename
Oh shoot sorry I misunderstood you, I thought the number would appear in the URL then –
ok I’ll give it a shot, thank you.
Ok yes that worked. For some reason the permalink for the test page stopped working, so mysite/orange just displays a blank page with contents:
<html>
</html>
any new pages I add work fine. If i delete page “orange” from the page editor, then try to add it as a new page again, same behavior. That name must be stuck in the database somehow, I’ll see if I can get into trouble now fiddling around in there.
Thanks
Whoa is “Gallery” a reserved name in wordpress?
I completely uninstalled wordpress, have a brand new installation. Put permalinks to day+name. Created a new page called “Gallery”. I see the link on the front page, click on it, blank page comes up. Only contents are:
<html>
</html>
Any permalink type (except default) gives me a blank html output for a page named “Gallery”. What am I missing? Surely there’s not an if statement in the source like:
if (pageName == “Gallery”) {
print(“<html>\n</html>”);
return;
}
Thanks
