It is advised to category in permalinks
%category%
A sanitized version of the category name (category slug field on New/Edit Category panel). Nested sub-categories appear as nested directories in the URI. Starting Permalinks with %category% is strongly not recommended for performance reasons.
You can read about it here
http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks
Thanks for the quick response Govpatel!
I removed my custom setting and tried one the recommended ones that is provided:
Month and name: …/2011/05/sample-post/
When I click on the pages I still get a Not Found error. For some reason I can only access the pages when I am using the default Permalink link settings (Ugly). It’s like when I change the setting, its not affecting the actual pages themselves, but rather the links to them.
I hope this makes sense and any help would appreciated.
Check with your hosts that mod_rewrite is running on your server.
Do you know if WAMP provides that? That’s what I am currently using.
You need to make 2 changes within Apache if you want to use custom permalinks:
– Activate the rewrite module
– Give permission for WordPress to rewrite
To activate the rewrite module, you need to edit your Apache configuration file – called httpd.conf – in NotePad.
Find the line that reads:
# LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
And remove the hash sign (#) from the start of the line, so that it reads:
LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
You then need to make a permissions change in the same file. Find the line that reads:
<Directory "${path}/www">
A few lines further down should be:
AllowOverride None
Change this to:
AllowOverride All
Save your httpd.conf file, then restart the Apache server.
I wonder Why if only we knew that you are using wamp as you need to switch ON mod_rewrite as by default is switched off
Thanks guys! It works now.
