RSS Feed & Permalink Process

  • Ok, I’ve read the Permalink instructions in the Docs section and came up with this line for my .htaccess file

    https://mydomainname.com/%category%/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/

    Now I do have Apache and according to my domain web hosting I do have the mod-rewrite business.

    So please explain the process, this goes through. By this I mean, once I put the above in my .htaccess file and FTP it into my root directory will this show up in the RSS information at the bottom of my blog in the footer section?

    Also what I’m not understanding is how the above in my .htaccess file will reach back and process the 20 some articles I aready have on my blog?

    When I click on RSS in the footer page now it Permalink=”false so if I do FTP .htaccess file up, will this change the RSS feed to Permalink=”true.

    As I understand the process right now to have Permalinks.

    1) Put the above in .htaccess file
    2) Change Mod to 666 (or should this be 660 right from the get go?)

    As I said above how does this work? Will it only write to the .htaccess when I write a new post?

    Judith

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  • Not sure which docs you’re reading, but I’m afraid you’re making things awfully difficult for yourself ?? Are you reading the Permalinks page in the Codex?

    Visit Options -> Permalinks.

    Choose your permalink style. If you don’t like a preset one, set a custom. Do not include your domain name. In your long example above, that would be:
    /%category%/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/

    IF wordpress can’t write to your .htaccess file, it’ll then tell you what to include. If you’re not told to add/edit anything (bottom of the Options -> Permalinks page) then don’t ??

    Thread Starter trabar

    (@trabar)

    Ok, I changed it to the above and got nothing at the bottom. So that is excellent

    But when I go to the category and click on a post it ends at the category and doesn’t give me the specific post.html file at the end.

    How do I get this to show up for rss feeds which are in my footer section or is this necessary?

    What I mean is — the RSS for Permalink still says =false and should this say =true now?

    Is there something I need to change in a .php page for this to show? If so which one and how?

    Judith

    Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    www.remarpro.com Admin

    Err.. what? I tried to understand that, but it didn’t make any sense. Perhaps if you gave us a link to the website and pointed out exactly what you think is incorrect?

    Thread Starter trabar

    (@trabar)

    If you go to:

    https://www.agoodread.com/Blog

    and go down to the footer section and click on RSS feeds, you will see the link stops at the category and says:

    permalinks=”false and yet I have defined this like I was told earlier.

    My question is why doesn’t it show the post.html at the end of the link so people could click on it when it shows in their reader. Right now they are getting taken only to the category.

    Judith

    Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    www.remarpro.com Admin

    I have to say that I don’t see what your talking about. Your feed looks fine to me. Here’s a clip from your feed (first post in the feed):

    <item>
<title>How to Destroy Your Search Engine Position</title>
<link>https://www.agoodread.com/Blog/2007/11/04/search-engine-and-web-hosting/</link>
<comments>https://www.agoodread.com/Blog/2007/11/04/search-engine-and-web-hosting/#comments</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 04 Nov 2007 19:32:15 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Judith Tramayne</dc:creator>
<category><![CDATA[SEO Articles]]></category>
<guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.agoodread.com/Blog/2007/11/04/search-engine-and-web-hosting/</guid>
<description>
... YOUR EXCERPT ...
</description>
<content:encoded>
... YOUR POST ...
</content:encoded>
<wfw:commentRss>https://www.agoodread.com/Blog/2007/11/04/search-engine-and-web-hosting/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
</item>

    There’s nothing wrong there. The links to your post actually work and go to your post page. What’s the problem? There is no “post.html” because that’s not part of your permalink. It’s also not necessary. WordPress does not store your posts as HTML files.

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