MrJPH

The uppercase ‘J’ in the custom permalink, is ignored by WP and automatically converted to lowercase.

I was misunderstanding the creation of a folder on my server. I was thinking that the folder would actually show up in the path of an URL… that’s what I have been used to in the past.

For example, it says to label it ‘blog’ or ‘wordpress’, but I didn’t want either one of those words to be name of my Journal – I was thinking it would show up like: ‘www.AnAmateurPhotographer.org/blog (or wordpress)’… so, that is why I named the folder ‘Journal’, thinking any entry/post would be seen in the browser window as: ‘www.AnAmateurPhotographer.org/Journal/…’

When I saw that an entry was being posted without the ‘Journal’, and just showing up as ‘www.aAP.org/entry-title’, I was confused as to why it was dropping the ‘Journal’ part of the URL, again thinking that it would appear within the file path. That was why I made the custom permalink to be ‘/Journal/%postname%/%monthnum%/%day%/%year%/’, so that visitors would know that they were in the Journal section of the website (if there was for some reason any confusion!)

I guess that folder, is just that – a folder, to contain all the WP files to be accessed, and that is it. If that is the case, I have no problem changing the name of that folder on my server… Can that be done while already up? Or would I have to start from scratch again? jolly.

Hi, esmi, thanks for your time and reply,

From the get-go, having the default permalinks selected never worked for me, from day one, going to a post created, just threw up an “Oops, page not found” page, not like the ‘Page not found’ page that pops up now, when trying to go back to April in the calendar… at least that shows a 404 page formatted to my site. Having the custom permalink, or any of the other options beside default, was the only way any created post or page would be able to viewed live.

I did try it though, and changed my permalink to the default setting, saved those changes, and couldn’t give the calendar a try, because again, it wouldn’t even load any post, or page.

I have to go to work now, so will not be able to follow up until this evening, but I again thank you for your suggestion, and any others you might offer, I would appreciate. Have a good day,
JPH

Hello again, Rev.

Yep, you were right, it was under the Functions.php.

I now have it changed and how I want it! Woo-hoo! Rock on!

Thank you for your time, and assistance, Rev, I sincerely appreciate it!

All the best to you,
JPH

PS: Sorry, I just noticed that WP is now 3.1.2 as of today… I am actually still 3.1.1, not 3.1.2 as I erroneously clicked on in the drop-down menu.

Woo-hoo!!!

Okay, I solved myself the Static Page problem, by reading the helpful link that was at the end of the Site Address (URL), that is under Settings > General –

http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory

What you must have been talking about Terry, with the Directory… I had for both my WordPress Address (URL) and my Site Address (URL) –

http://www.AnAmateurPhotographer.org/Journal

In the Site Address (URL) field, I just removed the ‘/Journal’ part, and then followed the directions to copy, move and edit the ‘.htcaccess’ and ‘index.php’ files to the root of my site, and wallah! I now have a working Static Page that doesn’t lead to an annoying Index of directory page! 🙂

Though, I still am directed there if I try to access my Dashboard from the admin toolbar at the top of a page of my site when viewed live… but, that is alright and don’t care about that, I don’t need to use that link, but the one I already have bookmarked… in fact will probably just disengage having the admin toolbar shown in the first place.

So, woo-hoo! The major problem I got solved… now, the really only other one I have right now, is the moving of the nav-links from being shown at the top of a post, above the title, to below and at the bottom of a post… any ideas?

Hello, Terry, & Rev., thank you for your time. Sorry for the delayed response getting back to you, I was at work.

Terry:

Have you been able to access WP at all?

Yes, I have no problem accessing WP at all… though, when I am viewing one of my own pages/posts, and it has that little admin toolbar at the top, when I click there to go to the Dashboard, it takes me to that ‘Index of’ directory page instead of the Dashboard. The address it brings up to go to the Dashboard is –

http://www.anamateurphotographer.org/Journal/wp-admin/

Which again takes me to the ‘Index of’ directory listing page, instead of Dashboard. For me to access Dashboard, I have to add onto the end ‘index.php’ –

http://www.anamateurphotographer.org/Journal/wp-admin/index.php

And it was always this way since setup, not “out of the blue”.

What host?

I don’t see how that is relevant, but, my host is HostExcellence. Again, no PHP MySQL issues or compatibility problems, I have WP installed and up and running as can be seen by the links I have provided… just have the Static Page issue, and the questions I asked.

What directory is WordPress install in?

Sorry, I’m not sure what you’re asking there… directory? The location on my site’s server where the whole WP kit and kaboodle is installed is what I mentioned – In the WP generated folder of ‘Journal’ on my AnAmateurPhotographer.org website, so it’s location is –

http://www.AnAmateurPhotographer.org/Journal

Have you setup a subdomain, or did you just make a new directory on your server?

Nope, no subdomain… just again, the latter (I think) – the ‘Journal’ folder/directory.

Rev.:

the index.php silence is golden files are not a problem. They keep your directory lists from being displayed if someone tries to access them directly

Ah… I see. Interesting, and cool. Thanks.

Also, yes there are many files. The thing is, what are you trying to find? If you are trying to understand how WP works, download it to your computer and look at the files. You would never need to edit these files. Terrible idea. The only files you ever edit, are in your theme. If you are trying to look at the code to see what is causing errors, again, just use a local copy

Well, of course I am just editing the files that I have downloaded, and are up on my site’s server, and are making WP work on my site. It is those that I am going in and editing, using my FTP client, Fetch, to access them on my server, and editing them on there directly, with TextWrangler.

The nav links you are talking about, what theme? Are you still with twenty ten? Or a custom one? Every theme is different. If you are using the twenty ten theme, first off, don’t edit it http://go.rvoodoo.com/WPchild has more about that

Yeah, sorry, my bad – I forgot to mention what theme I was using in my initial post. It is not TwentyTen, but Coraline.
As for the Nav Links I am talking about, I am talking like with each post, they have the nice links to take you back to the previously written post, or to the post that was written afterwards any particular post. In Coraline (again, the theme I am using), it has those Nav links right above the Title of the post, and I just don’t like it there, it makes it too busy, and would prefer it at the bottom, after the post content. In Coraline’s theme files, I found in it’s ‘single.php’ file, this code, what I am thinking is it showing that the nav links can be at either the top and bottom:

[Code moderated as per the Forum Rules. Please use the pastebin]

You see it has a ‘nav-above’ and ‘nav-below’ divs, which is what is making me think that they can be at either location… but, I just can’t seem to figure out how to make it so that it is at the below div area, and not the above div area, as it is currently. So, that is what I am talking about there.

Also, your posts and pages do not become files. They become data in your database. You either set one up, or if you used a one click install type thing for WP, your host set up a DB. You can use phpmyadmin through your host to look at your DB if you need, but be careful, one wrong move in there and your site can be toast!

Okay, that makes sense to me now… sure. This whole MySQL and database stuff is new to me… but I understand, and it all makes sense to me, as to why I couldn’t see the published post files on my server as I was accustomed to in the past… because they are in the Journal database I created. Thank you!

Hopefully that helps, I have a short attention span, and since I can’t see your questions while I respond….it’s hard to answer everything. If you have more question, I recommend asking them one at a time, nice and specific and as detailed as possible. It makes it easier to get quality answers

It did. And I am sorry for the length (and again here!), but that is exactly why it are so long, so as to give you as much info as possible to help whomever, to help me.

Again, thank you both very much for your replies and assistance. Hoefully, what more info I provided will maybe give you an idea of where I should go to get my static page to work, and to how to change the nav links from above to below.

Thank you both again, I sincerely do appreciate your time and assistance!
JPH