permalinks

Wordpress: How do I convert a generated URL (permalink) to a pretty URL?

In a plugin, I am generating a paginated link to a category, i.e. http://localhost/?cat=17&paged=5. The category is known by slug and id. Is there a way to have this URL converted to the user defined "nice permalink" format, i.e. http://localhost/category/foo/page/5? (Assuming we're running Wordpress 2.8/2.9+) Edit: Since there ar...

Wordpress and Joomla Permalinks plus domain redirect to specific subdirectory on Zeus

Hi, Here's what I'm trying to do: joomla in 1 subdirectory, wordpress in another. mysite.com directs to the joomla directory mysite.com/blog gives wordpress. I would also like to use seo friendly permalinks for both. I am using Zeus Linux shared hosting with Joomla 1.5 and wordpress 2.9.2, and having a great deal of trouble finding ...

rails routes for permalink with namespaced class

this one in my routes works perfectly: map.connect ':permalink', :controller => 'pages', :action => 'show' for this class: class PagesController < BackendController and on /xxx/pages it is shown like this: <%= link_to "#{item.link_name}", {:controller => :pages, :action => :show, :permalink => item.permalink} %> which will generate ...

Change post permalink structure on WordPress to use custom taxonomy

Hi there! I want to change the post permalink schema on my WordPress 3.0-beta1 to use my new custom taxonomy. Today I can use /%category%/%postname%/ and the /my-category/my-post/ URL, that's nice but I need to use another taxonomy instead "category" one. I tried to use /%acervo%/%postname%/ but my URLs came with %acervo% on the URL i...

Handling SEO Friendly URL with Non-English Character

Hi, i have urls like this: ex: .com/topic.php?id=6 then i converted to: .com/topic/5.html it works but i want to convert .com/topic/title.html the "title" is dynamic(for example: "çağdaş") and can contain non english chars like Ş, Ğ or Ü in this case firstly i converter chars to acceptable equivalents like Ş to S or Ü to U. In short of i...

How to construct a permalink for objects returned by Facebook's new Graph API?

Hi, Facebook Graph API allows getting Facebook objects like posts, videos etc in JSON from. Here is an example of a post: (taken from the documentation): { "id": "719323658_129694190395214", "from": { "name": "Rabia Yalcinkaya", "id": "719323658" }, "message": "COK MUHTESEM!!!...

Using Dates in Custom post_type Permalinks in Wordpress 3.0

I'm adding a custom post_type to Wordpress, and would like the permalink structure to look like this: /%post_type%/%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/ I can't figure out how to add the date tags. Using this code, gives me /my_type/example-post-slug/: register_post_type( 'customtype', array( ...other options... 'rewrite' => array('...

Date-based archives for custom post_types (wordpress 3.0)

If I have a custom post type named 'my_type', how can I get Wordpress to make date-based archives, for example: mysite.com/my_type/2010/ mysite.com/my_type/2010/07/ mysite.com/my_type/2010/07/28/ I'm looking for tips both on creating the rewrite rules and on linking the urls to templates. Thanks! Update: I've tried the following i...

Making pretty permalinks work in WAMP

I am not able to switch to pretty permalinks in WAMP. Changing to any form other than default gives 404 error. I have switched on the rewrite_module in Apache. I googled the problem and found that following changes should be made to httpd.conf file. My httpd.conf file stands as <Directory /> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks AllowO...

WordPress 3.0 & nginx - permalink, 404 problem

I've installed nginx, FastCGI and PHP on my server. WordPress 3.0 installed after a bit of a monster battle, but it's installed and working well. However, when I change the permalink settings to anything other than default, I get 404 errors on every post, article and page. I understand that this is something to do with nginx not suppor...

Wordpress, IIS7, Permalinks and index.php

I know this question may have been asked before, but I have read hundreds of posts all over the Internets and nothing has worked... I have a wordpress install (WP 3.0), running on MySQL and PHP 5.2.6. I'm trying to get the permalinks to just be site.com/postname. When I set the permalinks in the settings to just be /%postname% It d...

Permalinks in ASP.NET

Can anyone point me to some good resources on how to implement PERMA links in ASP.NET? I've done a couple google searches but haven't found anything that like authoritative or definitive. ...

Changing Permalinks

I want to change my permalinks from /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/ to /%postname%/ but when I added the following to the .htaccess file, posts didn't redirect the way I thought they would: RedirectMatch 301 /dddd/dd/dd/(.*) /$1 What do I need to put into my .htaccess file to make it work? My site is http://SweatingTheBigStuff.c...

.htaccess fix for a pretty permalink in PHP?

Maybe I'm going about this in the wrong way, but I have some pages in our homegrown CMS that I want to convert to using pretty permalinks. Currently, their page URLs look this this: http://ourdomain.com/articles/?permalink=blah-blah-blah I want to convert these to: http://ourdomain.com/articles/blah-blah-blah I have a column in the d...

WP URL filter params getting overridden by permalinks

Premise: I'm creating a site in WordPress 3.0. I'm trying to craft a URL with a set of parameters that gets me all posts for a given category in a given month in a given year. This works just fine if I have permalinks turned off: http://localhost/?category_name=category-slug&amp;year=2010&amp;monthnum=7 But if I have permalinks turned ...

Wordpress: posts/pages that displays content of a single comment?

I need to somehow make single posts/pages for comments. So i can show the comments as separate pages with there own permalinks. So that users can access theese pages in browser with the comment page permalink. Thankful for help! ...

Wordpress permalinks broken

I have recently moved my blog from one serever to another. I am now unable to restore my permalink structure. Now my permalink strucure has become /?p=123. Whenever, I try to change it to any other custom permalink structure, it throws 404 for all the posts. Check the blog at http://microreviews.org I have been forced to make the permal...

Wordpress Permalinks Not Staying

At various points of the day my WP permalinks keep breaking. When I'm using custom perms it works but then a few times during the day it just throws a Page Not Found. I fix it by setting perms to default, then back to custom and it works fine. My Sys Admin can't figure it out. Hopefully a guru can lend some help? ...

Permalink for external links

I would like to use permalink for external links on my site. For example, if I have this link on my site: google.com, it should rewrite to [and show the reader]: mysite.com/go/google Is this possible? Any ideas on how to go about doing this in .htaccess? ...

Migrating Wordpress Permalinks from postname to post_id/postname.

My blog's been up for a year or so, and 90% of our traffic comes from Google, so I want to make sure that I'm handling this permalink change properly. I recently read on Wordpress' codex that including the numerical %post_id% at the beginning of your permalinks can greatly reduce the stress on your database, when a post or page is being ...