WordPress Permalinks Articles

May 28th 2008

How to Find and Fix 404 Errors

If you’ve changed post slugs, taxonomy slugs, or permalink structures, you likely created 404 pages (page-not-found URLs) along the way. These 404 pages certainly aren’t helpful for visitors who stumble across them and can increase your bounce rate. It can be a particular problem if search engines, pingbacks, and/or internal and external links are sending [...] Read more »

By John Lamansky | Posted in Troubleshooting, Tutorials | Comments (7)
May 7th 2008

How to Put Blog Posts in Their Own Subdirectory

Cool WordPress-as-a-CMS tip: If your WordPress-powered site includes a blog as a component, rather than the main function, you can opt to put blog posts and archives (category/tag/date/author) into their own subdirectory (such as “blog”). Read more »

By John Lamansky | Posted in Tutorials | Comments (2)
Mar 24th 2008

7 Tips for the WordPress “Write Post” Page

Here are 7 useful tips related to WordPress’s “Write Post” page. Read more »

By John Lamansky | Posted in Tips | Comments (3)
Feb 8th 2008

WordPress Permalinks Just Won’t Enable? Try This.

Have you tried to enable “Pretty Permalinks” but the change doesn’t show up on your blog? I have, and I’ve successfully used this tactic buried in the WordPress Codex’s Using Permalinks article under the “Fixing .htaccess Generation Issues” section. This only applies if your web host is using Apache (if you aren’t sure, chances are [...] Read more »

By John Lamansky | Posted in Troubleshooting | Comments (0)