Comments on: Custom Permalinks

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 04:20:27 +0000

Hi, Mike,

I'm not sure I understand your original problem – if you've got a permalink structure as /%category%/%postname%, then where does the literal "category" part come from (as in /category/%category%/%postname%)? If I do it on my development installation of WP 2.7.1, all my categories show up at the root (eg. http://wordpress/uncategorized), and the posts within show up as http://wordpress/uncategorized/test-post.

Also, I can't seem to replicate your problem – if I use the above permalink structure, then apply a custom permalink to a category, load that category page, then try to click on an article within the category, it loads fine (although it loads with the original category slug, not the custom permalink, as the base – this is expected behaviour, as the alternative isn't supported in CP)

Perhaps if you make available a screenshot/complete summary of your permalink settings, as well as the settings for the category in question?

By: Mike Salway

Mike Salway — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 02:41:10 +0000

Hi I'm trying to use this plugin (0.5.1) on a development site (WP 2.7.1) and my permalink structure is: /%category%/%postname%/

When I clicked on a category (eg: beginners), it used to be http://blah/category/beginners

I wanted to use this plugin so it would just be http://blah/beginners

It works for the category heading, but when I click on an article within that category, eg: http://blah/beginners/this-beginner-article I get a 404.

Any idea of the problem?

Cheers

By: Vikram Indian

Vikram Indian — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:47:48 +0000

Hey guys if you are having problems with Wordpress 2.7.1 then do the following:

Go to the permalinks page by clicking on "Permalinks" which is under settings tab on the left side.
select "Custom Structure" and next to it type in "/index.php" (without quotes)
Click Save Changes

Done.

btw you cannot put _ or ( or ) etc in ur custom permalinks while your making a post or page.

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 01:06:56 +0000

I just uploaded the new version of the plugin, and I get the same problem – the "page not found" screen generated by my server. Would you be willing to check out my site and see if you can find out why? I'd be happy to pay for your time… I'm really liking the idea of this plugin, and it would make my day to have it work! Thanks.

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 23:43:51 +0000

Hi everyone – I've found a problem that may be the cause of the issues people have been having. Try version 0.5, see if it works for you.

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:57:30 +0000

I finally updated to 2.7, and I still have problems. Right now I use the default permalink structure, and I just want to make some pages have custom url's. Any more ideas of what could be wrong? I just get a "Page not found" error every time I try to use a custom permalink…

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:20:21 +0000

Hi Shirls – I'm sorry to hear that. This remains a mystery to me, as the plugin's worked fine on all of the WP 2.7+ installations I've tried it on so far – I'll keep trying, though.

By: Shirls

Shirls — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:03:39 +0000

Hi Mike,

I write blogs both in Chinese and English.Uunfortunately, my hosting company does not support utf8 codes on permalink, hence your plugin is perfect for my chinese posts.

However, I can't get it to work like others. My WP version is 2.7.1. Whenever I changed the permalink, it keeps showing a 'page not found' error. Do you have some clues or solutions yet?

Thanks for your help !

cheers Shirls

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:32:35 +0000

Hmm I see! It seems quite probable that that's the problem - I can't really say for certain either way, because I haven't tested on 2.5, but I do know that the Wordpress API underwent a few changes since then, and I'm probably making use of them, as Custom Permalinks gets into the guts of WP somewhat to work.

One option is to copy your whole webroot over to a new folder, upgrade in there, and see if it works - then you can always roll back, or put the work in to upgrade (2.7 is brilliant, and well worth it in my opinion)

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:05:47 +0000

It's actually 2.5.1 I know I should update, but I've only ever had horrible problems with updates. I use so many custom templates and hard-coding, it takes me forever to update. Should there be issues with your plugin and WP 2.5.1?

By: Brenton

Brenton — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:28:01 +0000

Yes, I was, but I did a re-design today and now I actually want them to be done by dates, so I uninsulated your plug-in–great though it is. :)

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 07:28:54 +0000

I'm sorry to hear that Bob! Can you let me know your Wordpress/PHP versions, for starters? I'm aware that there are a few issues currently, and haven't yet had the opportunity to have a look at them.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 07:15:41 +0000

Hello Brenton! Are you also having troubles with the plugin under 2.7? (I'm running 2.7.1 with Custom Permalinks with no problems); Still haven't found time to investigate the other problems yet, I'm afraid – my apologies, it's definitely on the to do list still.

By: Brenton

Brenton — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 08:25:51 +0000

Hi, thanks so much for this plugin! You rock! I don't understand why this isn't default for wordpress. I have the same trouble--404 errors all the way. :-\

I look forward to when you get it updated for 2.7!

By: Bob

Bob — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 21:33:23 +0000

This plugin is exactly what I need! However, I can't get it to work. It installs fine, but my newly created URLs don't work. I keep getting errors that say "page not found". Any ideas on how I can fix this? As far as I can tell, there are no other plugins like this out there, and I desperately need it! Thanks for creating this.