No, you cannot change the permalinks “selectively”. All or nothing. Which means, if you want “nice” permalinks for your Pages – it has to be done for the whole blog.
Study your own admin panel > Options > Permalinks +
http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks
Thanks for replying, but both that link and the admin panel seem to give no real help for the kind of permalink structure I am trying to achieve, although I know it is possible as I have seem someone else’s blog using it, and he is on the same host/wp scheme as me….oh well…thanks anyway!
You could probably do this sort of thing in the .htaccess file (assuming a linux/unix server of course). I haven’t any facility with that, but perhaps searching with google would find a usenet where you could get this sort of info.
Ok, will try that…sounds a bit daunting! Thanks very much for the advice!
Good luck with it, and if you figure it out please post back the solution; bound to be others wanting it eventually you know!
I am working on a site where I have mostly pages… for example, about-us, products, etc
I am using permalinks in this format:
/%category%/
just for one bit that will use a category and have blog posts.
I am linking to my pages like this:
/about-us/
or, you could use the absolute path, I suppose
http://example.com/about-us/
1) did you try using the ending /?
2) is the page slug “photos”? Keep in mind that when you create a Page, the title you use is sanitized for spaces, etc and a page slug is created. Create a new page and add photos in the title field, add content and save/publish. Now that page slug is photos. You should be able to link to it like href=”/photos/”
works for me, anyway. v2.0.4
Thanks for that! I changed the permalinks structure to custom: /%category%/ and now it is just like how I want them! Cheers!
Well, I thought this worked ok, but when I tried to go into a single post on the main page, it just went to a list of all the posts for that category. Seems to be no way to go into only one post now…hmmm. If anyone has any ideas of how to fix this, I would be really grateful. Thanks!
EDIT: Take it all back! I was an idiot…I added /%postname%/ to the end and it works fine! Thanks anyhoo.
