Articles tagged with “permalink”
- Universal www-Canonicalization via htaccess
- During my previous rendezvous involving comprehensive canonicalization for WordPress, I offer my personally customized technique for ensuring consistently precise and accurate URL delivery. That particular method targets WordPress exclusively (although the logic could be manipulated for general use), and requires a bit of editing to adapt the code to each particular configuration. In this follow-up tutorial, I present ...
- What is My WordPress Feed URL?
- For future reference, this article covers each of the many ways to access your WordPress-generated feeds. Several different URL formats are available for the various types of WordPress feeds — posts, comments, and categories — for both permalink and default URL structures. For each example, replace “http://domain.tld/” with the URL of your blog. Note: even though your blog’s main feed is ...
- Permalink Evolution: Customize and Optimize Your Dated WordPress Permalinks
- How to streamline and maximize the effectiveness of your WordPress URLs by using htaccess to remove extraneous post-date information: years, months, and days..
Recently, there has been much discussion about whether or not to remove the post-date information from WordPress permalinks 1. Way back during the WordPress ...
- Comprehensive URL Canonicalization via htaccess for WordPress-Powered Sites
- Permalink URL canonicalization is automated via PHP in WordPress 2.3+, however, for those of us running sites on pre-2.3 versions or preferring to deal with rewrites directly via Apache, comprehensive WordPress URL canonicalization via htaccess may seem impossible. While there are several common methods that are partially effective, there has not yet ...
- WordPress Lessons Learned, Part 1: Permalink Structure
- While planning my current site renovation project, I considered changing the format of my permalinks. Reasons for modifying the permalink structure of a site include:
Optimizing URLs for the search engines
Simplifying URL structure for improved readability
Removing the implication that your site content is somehow organized chronologically
Removing other unwanted organizational implications (e.g., categorically, topically, etc.)
Like many people who configured WordPress permalinks a couple of years ago, ...
- htaccess Combo Pack: WordPress Permalinks and non-www Redirect
- WordPress users employing permalinks via htaccess to optimize their dynamic URLs transform complicated-looking links such as:
http://example.com/blog/index.php?page=33
..into search-engine friendly links such as:
http://example.com/blog/post-title/
Every rewritten URL relies on a common set of htaccess rules to transform the links. The htaccess rules for all WordPress permalinks look like this for root WP installations:
# BEGIN WordPress
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond ...
- The htaccess Rules for all WordPress Permalinks
- Note: this article specifically applies to WordPress version 2+ running on Apache servers.
We recently performed a series of tests on a fresh installation of WordPress 2.0.2 to determine the exact htaccess rewrite rules that WordPress writes to its htaccess file for various permalink configurations. Under the WP admin option menu, WordPress lists four choices for permalink structure:
Default: http://perishablepress.com/press/?=123
Date and name based: http://perishablepress.com/press/index.php/2006/06/14/sample-post/
Numeric: http://perishablepress.com/press/index.php/archives/123
Custom: /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/
The "default" option is to not use permalinks. The "date and name based" setting ...
- Create New Permalink Category
- If you are running WordPress 2.0.2 and have enabled permalinks, you may have had problems creating a new category or page to your site. I recently encountered this dilemma and devised the following strategy for adding, editing, or even deleting WordPress categories and pages. Note: this tutorial assumes you are running Apache.
First, open wp-includes/vars.php and find (around line #39):
$is_apache = ( strstr($_SERVER['SERVER_SOFTWARE'], 'Apache') || strstr($_SERVER['SERVER_SOFTWARE'], 'LiteSpeed') ) ? 1 : 0;
Comment out that line and add the ...
- Permalink Enlightenment
- I recently enabled the permalinks feature for a fresh WordPress 2.0.2 upgrade. The process required several hours of research and approximately 90 minutes to fully implement. This brief article summarizes the process and applies to at least the following setup:
WordPress 2.0.2
Apache Server with mod_rewrite enabled
The ability to access/modify your .htaccess file(s)
You have decided to use the /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/ permalink format (actually, any format will work; simply swap your preferred format for the one mentioned here)
You may also be ...