Directories or Something

792283
17 years, 8 months ago

Just got wordpress a week ago and been fiddling about and decided to get a new theme, though that shouldn’t matter, I have been looking at other blogs/sites with wordpress and notice directories like http://www.websitename.com/archieve and http://www.websitename.com/tutorial/tutorialname, I want that but whenever I make a category or post it comes out http://www.websitename.com/?p=1 or http://www.websitename.com/?cat=1. I want it to be the other way though, is this a plugin or a feature or what? It works the same way (?p=1) on the default theme to. Im using the latest version of wordpress.

EDIT: Also http://www.website.com/?page_id=2 is my about page, yet on some sites their about page is linked to http://www.website.com/about, how do I get that!

Thank you.

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appliancejunk
(@appliancejunk)

17 years, 8 months ago

Hi,

Try looking here.

Admin>Settings>Permalinks

I’m using Custom Structure: /archives/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/

ApplianceJunk.com/blog

Thread Starter 792283

17 years, 8 months ago

First, thank you 🙂
Second, I want it to be category/post-name, so would I enter this in the Custom Structure field?:

http://website.com/%category%/%post-name%/

-OR-

http://website.com/category/post-name/

Or would I enter it in a different field, thank you 🙂

Chris_K
(@handysolo)

17 years, 8 months ago

Check out the Using_Permalinks page in the docs section 🙂

Thread Starter 792283

17 years, 8 months ago

Read that and In the custom structure field I put /%category%/%postname%/, and I had to set my CHMOD for the wordpress directory to 777 (is that ok?). It now rewrites URL’s the way I want BUT, how does it decide what the link is when I write a new post?

Thank you so much for the help HandySolo and Appliance Junk!

Chris_K
(@handysolo)

17 years, 8 months ago

Check out:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress#File_permissions

In general, 777 would make me pucker a bit… try 755? (granted, I have no idea how your server is configured but 777 is scary).

The link is determined on a new post via the post slug. You’ll see it set just under the Post’s title on the post editor screen.

Thread Starter 792283

17 years, 8 months ago

Seems to work with 755, thank you 🙂 Now if only I can get this flickr thing to work hehe 😛

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