wordpressbear

OK, I’m a little more confused and less confused at the same time. I just gained some new insights into categories and tags that made me realize I may not need to fiddle with the URL’s after all. But, judging from your comments, URL’s that reflect categories may play an important role in archives posts, right?

Under Edit Posts on my Admin page, I see how I can organize posts by category, then view the tags for each post. Will my visitors have a similar ability to organize posts by both category and tag, even if the category isn’t reflected in the URL?

I’ll have to read up on archived posts and learn how visitors sort through them.

Thanks.

I was able to delete my database via my C-Panel. Thanks for the tip.

Thanks, I’ll check out those links.

Cool; that fixed it.

As an experiment, I tried publishing my local world/index.php page online…after I created the category world. But it won’t publish, so it appears that WordPress blocks publishing when it might override a category home page?

However, I was able to publish another static page that doesn’t coincide with a category.

Anyway, it appears that WordPress is generally incomptabile with static pages. So I assume the way to create a new page, in any section, is to simply make a post, then modify the URL and tweak the code, if I want to alter the appearance or function – right?

Thanks.

I’m getting closer. I changed Custom Structure to this:

/%category%/%postname%

And the URL correctly defaults to MySite/world/spain…however, I get the following error message in lieu of my post:

Not Found
The requested URL /world/spain was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache/1.3.34 Server at http://www.great-depression2.com Port 80

Also, I get a message advising me to update my .htaccess file…but update it to what?

Finally, is there a way to modify it so that instead of displaying at MySite/world/spain, it displays at MySite/World/Spain? For an article in the Topics Category, all words would be capitalized…

MySite/Topics/Global_Economy

Thanks.

I just discovered the PermaLinks page…but I haven’t figured it out. I keyed in on this section…

If you like, you may enter custom structures for your category and tag URLs here. For example, using topics as your category base would make your category links like http://example.org/topics/uncategorized/. If you leave these blank the defaults will be used.

I chose “World” for both Category base and Tag base…

Category base = World
Tag base = World

But when I checked an article I posted in the World category, I discovered that the link remained unchanged. I made a new post, again checking the World category, and it displays at http://www.great-depression2.com/?p=6, not at MySite/World/Spain

Any tips? Thanks.