WordPress woes
I invite you to look at my permalink settings in WordPress:
You’ll notice that what it does not say is /%category%/%postname%/. Yet, somehow, that is exactly what I get. I thought that with this setting I could arrange my pages however I want and retain the same permalink. This turns out to not be the case. So, for example, when I moved my Netflix Widget page under “Projects”, suddenly the permalink turned out to not be so perma. I’d really love it if the next release at the very least accurately reflected the actual behavior or, even better, let me make permalinks that don’t change when I move the pages around. Grr.
Update:
It turns out that parent pages and post categories are two different things, and are thus handled differently. Nonetheless, I would very much like a way to remove the parent page from the permalink of a child page.
April 20th, 2006 at 11:42 am
Is the Netflix plugin a page or a post? The permalink structure only works with posts, which it is doing correctly.
April 21st, 2006 at 8:02 am
Not so. For example, if I change the permalink setting back to default, then the link for my Netflix plugin page becomes http://ongoingprocess.net/?page_id=25 instead of http://ongoingprocess.net/projects/netflixwidget/. Permalinks are for both pages and posts.