leadegroot

ok, I have figured out the cause, and I guess I may as well document what it was.

I had put my pages as children of two pages, ‘top’ and ‘bottom’ (for showing in two groups at the top and bottom of the nav)
Somehow those parent pages didn’t get slugs – don’t know how, I created them through the wordpress interface.
This meant wordpress was trying to insert an empty value into the URL (oddly enough, this didn’t work) and the pages were unreachable.

Well, my current fix is to redo the Pages as Posts and make a special cat for them that doesn’t get linked to elsewhere

Thanks for answering iridiax! ??

My wordpress url and blog url seem ok – neither has a slash on the end ( I didn’t change it from install)
ie they are both https://www.example.com

No plugins at all yet – haven’t gotten that far through the process

Haven’t touched the .htaccess beyond chmod to allow the dashboard to write to it

??

I take it other people are installing 2.6.5 with non-default permalinks and not seeing this on their Pages? ??

Its reporting the named category of the blogroll.
You can edit in the Dashboard
In 2.3.x at Blogroll > Categories
In 2.2.x you can change at Manage > Categories
(Or poke around – I do wish they would stop moving stuff!)

I had to read the source to see why its doing this! If you set categorize=0 in the wp_list_bookmarks parameters then it will obey your title_li parameter.
(This is probably what Spiewgels meant, but he mistyped)

Hope it helps!
Lea