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okay….so after doing a huge amount of testing I decided to try a different theme template and that fixed it. (DUH) So my problem was caused by some bad code in the design template. Turns out the developer isn’t updating that template anymore so I’ve switched to another.

well i still have this problem…my next step is to setup a copy of the site with a fresh install on a different hosting account. i’m wondering if it just comes down too WP not playing nice with the host apache or php setup.

one other thing this install uses is Gallery2. so it could be that.

still testing.

excellent moshu…thanks!

the really annoying part is that the WP docs state that with permalinks the htaccess should be updated whenever you add a new page…but there’s NO explanation about what formula these should be in if you have to add them manually.

i’ve tried numerous things such as deactivating all plugins, using default ‘ugly’ links etc. I still get a 404 error for all pages, both old and any new ones I try to add.

Also…I’ve noted that you mention a rewrite rule in the wp_options database table but I can’t don’t see this in any of my installs?

I’m also having this problem. Anyone???

hey…i’ve been reading, but unfortunately have no clue either. I’m experiencing the same problem although my WP install is in the site root. Posts work fine, just not pages (except for Archives). The most frustrating thing is i’m running several sites on WP and only one of them has this problem.

After hours of reading and researching to try and fix this I still can’t get it working. I think it’s definitely a mod-rewrite issue.

*sad*

I vaguely remember reading somewhere that you need to use the direct url to any YouTube video (the first link). I think the second link isn’t working because it has a query in it…although I could be wrong on that.

See how these are different?

https://youtube.com/watch?v=vpF5yp3QB44

Ack! I can’t figure out how to fix this…isn’t there any killer permalink/mod-rewrite folks out there willing to help?

Where in the WP database does it store rewrite instructions?

I guess I could go back to 2.0 but that would leave the security loophole open.

Help! Help!

Is there anyone out there with php/rewrite experience that can help with this….I really don’t know much in that area and haven’t been able to fix this.

I’ve tried the following…

Adjusting the ‘list_pages’ tag.
Repairing the database.
Deleting the htaccess.
Resetting the permalinks.

Not sure what else to try, and I didn’t feel confident enough to start digging into the database.

Any ideas???

Yes, they’re visible under Page Management but editing and/or resaving doesn’t do anything. Newly created pages also have the same problem (link shows up but does not work).

I’m wondering if there is a way to recreate or repair that portion of the database? Not sure what to do with the htaccess file since WP now handles much of that internally.

Thanks for posting a fix axel…I agree that this really should be part of a comments plugin. It’s definitely much needed.

Update: I never found a plugin to manage this, but I did come across a way to do this via accessing the WP database.

https://www.segebrecht.com/lydia/ramblings/moved-comments/

I found this hack to include the blog description on the only home page. Theoretically it could be used to show the blog title.

https://www.pixies.ca/archives/2005/03/02/as-loud-as-hell-a-ringing-bell/

I tested it on my site and it works fine. Just replace ‘description’ with ‘name’.

Hilliergroup…

Just my opinion, but I think the code that Michael listed is not necessary. I would delete that and start over.

The page title code should be included only in your header file (header.php). The only code you need to change is the title tag..

<title></title>

It often looks like this…
<title><?php bloginfo('name'); ?> <?php if ( is_single() ) { ?> &raquo; Blog Archive <?php } ?> <?php wp_title(); ?></title>

Each of those php tags calls different information into the title tag. You can remove or reorder them as needed. You can even include regular text between them. You can get more info on WP tags here:

A quick breakdown is
<?php bloginfo('name'); ?> …This shows the name of your blog which you entered in the General Options panel

*If you want every page to include “Seattle Real Estate-Seattle Washington Real Estate” you can simply enter this into the Weblog Title section on the General Options page. You could also delete this tag and simply add your text directly into the title tags.

Another variation of this tag is <?php bloginfo('description'); ?> …This shows the description of your blog which you enter in the General Options panel under “Tagline”.

<?php if ( is_single() ) { ?> &raquo; Blog Archive <?php } ?> …This tells the browser to show the text “Blog Archive” whenever a single post page is being viewed. You can change the text “Blog Archive” to whatever you like.

<?php wp_title(); ?> …This tag pulls the title of your post, page, category, etc depending on what’s being viewed.

Having keyword rich page titles is important for SEO but you really want detailed titles. That will help broaden your chances of picking up variations of keyword phrases related to your topic. So I would suggest you at least include the wp_title tag along with your keyword text. You do want your most important keywords at the beginning of the title though.

So taking this all into account here are two different ways you could edit your title tags to show your keyword phrase…

1. <title>Seattle Real Estate-Seattle Washington Real Estate <?php wp_title(); ?></title>

* This will show whatever text you include, plus the post/page/or cat title.

2. <title><?php bloginfo('name'); ?> Keywords Here <?php wp_title(); ?></title>

* This will show your blog title, plus any keyword text you include, plus the post/page/or cat title.

My experience with SEO is that you don’t need to use multiple variations of keywords, if you include a keyword at least once search engines will put those keywords into different combos for you. So you could do something like “Seattle Real Estate Journal – Homes & Property for sale in Washington”. It would just depend on who you’re targeting and how many different related terms you want to pull in.

I posted previously but just wanted to jump back in and reiterate that I think the main thing lacking in all of the plugins is the ability to do bulk file uploads via the WP admin panel. I do not need fancy features, but this is one I definitely require as I install WP for a lot of clients who DON’T know FTP and don’t want to learn one more program on top of WP itself.