I notice that the url https://photomatt.net/2004/page/3/
does work so you ‘should’ be able to have clean urls, but the content changes.
One thing I would like to see is reverse numbering for posts pages nav
That is post id 1 appears on page one and the current posts appear on the last page.
The current method has the current posts on page one and post one on the last page.
This would then mean that any given page would have the same content over time provide you don’t edit play with posts.
And Google would love the clean urls on a paged view.
When doing internal postings mine does not ping.
Using WP 1.2-mingus.
I upgraded from another Blogging package and while manually editing the links to prior entries the ping back is not activating.
I experimented with the following in 1.2 and it worked fine. <link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/x-icon" href="<?php echo get_settings('siteurl'); ?>/favicon.ico" />
However the icon only reliably appears after the a link is added as a Fav. to IE.
Microsoft have some info but it is the same as above. https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/author/dhtml/howto/shortcuticon.asp