permalinks and htaccess on IIS?

I don’t think pages require permalinks. They look a lot nicer with permalinks, but I don’t think they require them.

Pages don’t use permalinks unless you’ve enabled permalinks for the rest of the site, if I remember correctly. Simply don’t enable permalinks, an everything will be fine.

Well, I’m new to WP but the docs say and I quote:
“A permalink is what another weblogger will use to refer to your article “

Are you saying that all links are perma, and WP’s permalinks are just cruftless versions of ordinary links, and there is nothing more perma about them?

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Standard WP links, without permalinks enabled will look something like this:

https://www.domain.com/index.php?=34 or something like that.

with permalinks enabled will look like this.

https://www.domain.com/archives/2005/3/22/post-name.

All permalinks do is just make the link “prettier.”

Thanks for the clarification.

PictPress plugin states:
“WordPress must have a permalink structure enabled. “
https://www.curioso.org/pictpress/

Does this mean I can’t use plugins that require permalinks?

I’m not sure? It might be possible to still use permalinks on the setup you’re running, but I wouldn’t know how you could go about doing that. But atleast you know that you don’t have to use permalinks for pages if you can’t get permalinks to work.

Only the earliest version of PictPress required permalinks enabled, later versions also work without permalinks enabled.