Ok so I was watching some real good videos of how to make your wordpress website really google friendly and properly optimized for SEO, and I must say that I have followed the steps and have implimented and taken action and I have seen results, my website have jumped in leaps from obscurity to frontpage for many keywords when compared to last month's standings. But I want to site to be more SEO relevant and to do that it needs more fine tuning and according to the videos I have to change the default permanent links settings to this custom structure /%postname%/ But whwn I do that and I get error pages! There is message at the top that says You should update your .htaccess now and at the bottom of page there is this code to put in the .htaccess file......but I just cannot seem to to find the darm .htaccess page to enter the information below. <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.php [L] </IfModule> Can someone help me with some specific directions....where to put that code?
This can all be done from WP admin, all you need to do is upload a blank .htaccess file with 644 permissions (although I think WP should create one automatically?). BUT... If you don't have an .htaccess file, just create one and paste the code into it. If you don't know how to create a new file and paste something into it, then here's an easy way to do it (if you're never done it before)....... CREATE THE FILE 1. Right click on your Windows desktop and create a new file called "htaccess.txt". 2. Open it and paste in your code. 3. Save it and close it. 4. You've now got a file on your desktop called htaccess.txt with your fancy code in it. UPLOAD AND RENAME YOUR FILE 1. Download an FTP application, something like FileZilla is free and good. Install it, and add your site using your FTP login and password. 2. Login to your hosting account, go to you root directory, and upload your htaccess.txt file from your Windows desktop. 3. Rename the file using FileZilla (SLOW double click), to ".htaccess" 4. Done. It sounds far more complicated than it is.
Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you soooooooooooo much...... It worked....I followed your steps down to the . May Almighty God richly bless you, your family and your business abundantly.
If you use filezilla make sure you do not store your ftp information in it. some viruses may easily take the information and crash your website.
Sorry to take this kinda off topic... but do you know any good free/opensource FTP apps that store your passwords in an encrypted file? I love FileZilla, but have never really felt good about it storing passwords in plain text.