infranic

In deed, macmanx, i have a huge list of problems with permalinks AND mod_rewrite. Now i’ve to work around at the same step than 4 weeks ago.

Here an overview of all aspects:
Using: MySQL 3.23.53, php 4.3, on apache 1.3, WP.1.5.12
PlugIns: Disable WPAUTOP
Permalink Structure: /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/
Category base: /.

Most interesting thread: reduced-rewrite-plugin

The try of the plugins permalink-redirect or reduced-rewrite does not really improve the performance of WP. As I can see, generating requests becomes up to 150% slower. Moreover i can not understand, why the php-classes- and- functions are handling list_cats and the loop seperate in view of permalinks or just the simple links, even if i don’t use permalinks.

Using the category base “/.” is also a fairly poor solution for stripping the presetted path with the term “category”, because the generated code shows something like http://blog.org/./foo/. The browser won’t show you that, if you’re mouseovering a link. This is somehow – from a very rudimentary point of view – correct, but looks like garbage, if one uses permalinks in order to give spiders or seo an optimized chow.

But the point at the end will be, what WP originally has been built for: Blogging. And – no doubt – this is realized very fine.

New problem using permalinks?
As I mentioned before, my site is prevailing using singleposts for each category. Now, if there are more posts assigning to a category inside my blog, WP is creating a dammed postslug of its own for each of those posts. For example, the link to the second post within my blog’s category “support” is shown as “http://blog.org/2005/06/14/support-2/”. This link shows me an 404 Error. Inorder to reach that, i use the following code inside the small Loop from above:
<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title() ; ?></a>
On the whole site permalinks are working fine, as long as there is only one post assigned to a category.
I’ve really no idea, where this might be substantiated…

Sorry that this was not clear, because of my poor understanding of WP and my bad English…

I’m using WP generally to present static informations, that are shown as single posts – each in a category of its own. Beside this there is the blog. The sidebar containing the recent three posts from the blog is shown in both, the static information and the blog.

So, if one is reading a post of static information, the small loop above will identify each ” the_author_posts_link” depending to the post, that is containing the sidebar. The author will always be the same and not the one, that it should be correlating to each post’s excerpt of my sidebar-loop.

Sounds cruelly, i know 😉

The only Plugin I’m using is the wpautop-Plugin. After restarting Apache the performance first was faster, but after a few logins (not new posts) we have the same snail again.

So I ‘ll check out the setting from Apache for PHP, i’m not very closed to that, because until WP i always used to do things like that in Perl.

Thx to all.

Thx Kafkaesqui, me so stupid !! 😀

okay, i got it. testing around with the comments-tags will be useful. unfortunately i’ve made the mistake to customize the layout and structure of my site to early. a real crashcourse in a php. tweak, tweak…

may be, that i will post another question these days in here.

thx a lot, be blessed.

@kafkaesqui:
it was my guess, that my question would intend some amusement for you out there, but as one can see, i’m a newbie to blogging.

by attentively following your hints i discovered,

1. that your suggested code-changes in the feed-templates work successful – many thx
2. that (my) wp is giving me always the same feed-output – regardless of which post. info on wp_content_rss() says, that it’s encoding the actual post, but (for me) it does not. it always shows the rss for the whole blog. guess i’ll amuse you again… , but something went wrong.