Permalink conversion should not be this tough!

  • joxie

    (@joxie)


    16 years, 5 months ago

    Gee, for how easy it was to get WordPress up and going (really was about 5 mintes), an attempt to change permalinks has become quite the nightmare! Why does WordPress default to the worst option there is as far as search engines go??

    So I’m very overwhelmed by why this doesn’t work. Going back to when I first configured my site, would my links all work if I had set the permalink format *before* adding any content to my site?

    It seems that much of the support out there is helping convert existing content from one permalink format to another (with tools like Mod-Rewrite, etc). Would that have been necessary if we all started out with the right format to begin with??

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  • Rev. Voodoo

    (@rvoodoo)

    16 years, 5 months ago

    what problems are you having exactly?

    I used WP default links for over a year, then changed over to pretty permalinks….all I did was change the structure in the settings and everything was done and worked….

    what are your issues?

    Thread Starter joxie

    (@joxie)

    16 years, 5 months ago

    being new to WP, I set up a site (blog.myfavoritekitchen.com) using many of the WP defaults. now reading about tips and tricks to make it better, I see how permalinks should be changed to help with search indexing and such. so I’m trying to go from the default format to /%postname%/ and all I get is 404 wherever I click on the site.

    I’m on a Windows host so I tried the php.ini trick as well as messing around with .htaccess. Nothing changed…

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