hi there, i was wondering if anyone is familiar with htaccess files & creating them for wordpress... I have this plugin installed on a wp site, and permalinks are not working correctly. When i set permalinks to any option other than the default one i get page not found errors.. I remove the plugin and permalinks work fine. So it must be because i have it in a subfolder off the root folder on my hosting. But it has its own domain pointing to the domain. And the plugin doesnt know where it is installed.. well i installed the site theme and plugin on a totally diferrent host and it works absolutely fine there. So i need to know how or what to modify in order for the plugin to know im installed in a subfolder off the root folder with its own domain pointing to it. Any help would bre appreciated.
hi there, it is the article directory plugin.. http://articlesss.com/article-directory-wordpress-plugin/ thx for help
While setting the permalinks option to custom do make sure that you put the '%' symbol and the '/' whereever required. People generally tend to forget that.
Thx for the help guys, I have those in place none of these options work /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/ /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/ /archives/%post_id% But only www.sitename.com/?p=123 works maybe one of you could install it on a subfolder and see if it does the same thing...if anyone has the spare time to test for me. I would surely appreciate that. thx
Hi, If you are using windows hosting then there will be not default mode rewrite function. This function will provide you url rewriting function. where as in linux hosting you will get it by default and you can rewrite easily htaccess, file.
Make sure the .htaccess is writable, you'll have to do that or manually add the code to .htaccess after you change the permalink setting.
Add what code to the htaccess file? And what are the "writable" permissions? i think permalinks are fine, just not for when the plugin is installed. Cus, they work fine when i uninstall the plugin... thx PS - This is my 1000th post
That might be your problem. When you change your permalinks, your .htaccess has to writable so wordpress can update it. Log into your site with an FTP program, right click the .htaccess file, go to permissions and set them to 777. Change the permalink settings in wordpress. Go back to the FTP program and change the .htaccess back to 644 or what ever it was before you made the changes.
Well Thanks, i just tried that..but no go... all other permalinks work perfectly except for the links of the categories listed on main page. they look like sitename.com/category/folder/subfolder/ The plugin as far as i see it.. It's only function is to provide catergories on the main page in three columns side by side. And to link to the author pages. Every other permalink on the site works perfectly, permalinked in any fashion i decide. All except those darn categories on the main page! Like i said earlier... i installed the site theme and plugin on a totally diferrent host and it works absolutely fine there. Category permalinks as well... i am so frustrated.
I see upon further review of this plugin that... With plugin installed and permalinks settings on. When a user clicks on a categorie name that is empty of posts, it goes to a page not found page.. But.. when a user clicks on a categorie that is not empty, it takes to the correct permalinked page... So..is there a setting i might be able to change? Example of... hide_empty (boolean) Toggles the display of categories with no posts. The default is true (hide empty categories). Valid values: 1 (true) - default 0 (false)