This is bugging me for three days now, I am having a real problem with permalink......My top page links " meet, P&P," and "who is Monsanto" work fine, but as I post a blog, it only allows one permalink, so, say I write about Monsanto, and another on Diabetes, they both have the same permalink....... If I change one, it changes both!
Is permalinks maybe just for pages and not the home blogs? that would mean my blogs wouldn't have links?
Then, My category links... i.e." in the news"... don't work because they all say.. Organichealthcure.comcategory/inthenews.... there is no slash after "com" com/category.......and there is no way to change it, I've been looking for three days.............UUUGGGHHH!!! anyway, like Cindy said, I need to post another ???????
Also, I am thinking my site doesn't look "clean and fresh" ....what do you think? I have heard of the Socretes that Pablo is doing but can not afford to pay for a theme right now, I am using Amazing Grace......any thoughts?
I am assuining you are using Wordpress? It does look like you have a problem with the permalink settings as the link to the my healthy child page goes to
try changing the permalink settings (settings then permalink option in the wordpress admin options) to something like
/%category%/%postname%/
in the custom option, or choose one of the common settings
You also have lots of different colors and fonts which does not help give the site a clean look. If you want a free theme you could do worse than suffusion
Yes, Wordpress, I have tried to change the category settings but the stupid thing wont let me. Do you think it could be a program problem with the theme?
Are you saying Suffusion is better? I misunderstood your last point.
When you say too many colors and fonts, are you referring to my text articles or in the site layout?
Sorry........I am really only a 5yr old in Kindergarten trying to do 12th grade... I'll learn though.......I have too!!
I had a similar problem last year (I'm not sure which theme it was) and the answer turned out to be a silly little period in the category base box, which should have been empty.
I have no idea if this is the same situation, but it might be worth a try to check under settings then permalinks then optional then see if there is anything in the category base box. If you have a dot in the box, try removing it and don't forget to click save changes. If that wasn't it, go back in and put the period back in. Good luck and hopefully someone with more knowledge and experience can join in and help.
sorry but I am going to copy and paste what I see below. I went to settings, then permalink, under "optional ' there is nothing in the category base box but there is a "custom " box... I hit that when I made my first article " who is Monsanto" so I put /who-is-monsanto in that box......... now every article has that permalink.......see???
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.
Category base
Tag base
In the custom box you need code, not the actual name of the post. There are many custom codes you can use. This is a structure that tells how to make the URL for each of your posts. Take out "who is Monsanto" from the custom box and use one of the common codes such as:
/%post_id%/%postname%
or as Baggs suggested:
/%category%/%postname%/
or simply:
/%postname%/
or:
/%postname%.html
There are pros and cons for choosing each of the above structures.
The post_id will put a number before the post name in the URL. The category will insert the category you have chosen for the post before the post name in the URL. Of course, postname is as it sounds - puts the name of the post in the URL.
There are debates about whether or not to include the last "/" and another debate about the ".html" (I've got a thread about that on the forum.)
Every character matters! if you have an extra anything ("/.:" whatever) it could mess you up. That's the first place to look when something goes "squirrly."
If you are going to use more than one category for each post, then I suggest NOT using the structure with %category%. If category is going to be an important way for your readers to get to your information, then that structure may be good for your purposes. I've decided for what I am doing now to use the /%postname%.html permalink.
You'll find the custom permalink code Lynn uses and just plug that into the custom box. Then you won't ever have to bother with that box again and all your posts will then have that new structure however if you have current links live, you will need to do a redirect and that is where I get stuck. I'm not sure exactly how to do that.
OMG!!! Roey!!!!! IT WORKED!!!! I used /%postname%.html because I will use multiple catagories for some articles..... and it fixed everything!
Thank you, thank you and thank you again.... HTML is such a wierd language, I am very grateful you taught me this.
AAAhhh.... one step at a time ... now I am going to get rid of that calendar, and try to shrink my pic, and e-mail sign up, oh, and take the adds off the home page as per advice from " The Affiliate handbook".....before I make more content.
"Been there, done that, bought the t-shirt" as they say - lol.
I'm glad it worked.
Also, like Angie said, you might need to do a redirect for your existing pages now that the structure is changed; I'm not sure. There should be a plug-in. That's on my "to-do-list."
major permalink/ link issue
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