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I forgot to say thanks, SwansonPhotos!

I had a similar problem with my categories. After searching the support forum and finding this topic, I solved it by following SwansonPhotos’ original advice:

1. I changed the properties of the .htaccess file to 755
2. I changed the permalink structure to default, then back to the permalink structure I wanted to use
3. I changed the properties of the .htaccess file back to 644

After each step I checked the behavior of the blog to make sure everything works fine. This is the content of my .htaccess file:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

Hi SwansonPhotos and thank you for your advice and suggestions. I like the idea of using php functions to get post ids and url paths: I will have to look them up and learn how to use them (any help would be highly appreciated). My slugs match the post titles and they don’t contain dates. Here is the content of my .htaccess file:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

You have a good point regarding my permalink, I will eventually choose a standard permalink to also solve the comment problem.

Thank you SwansonPhotos, this solved my initial comment problem. I left the permalinks as they were because my internal links would not work with the new permalink structure. Any idea how I could change all my internal links without going through each individual post?

I manually installed the WP through FTP. Unfortunately nobody can leave comments on any post even though they are enabled. I would appreciate any suggestions. Thank you.

Thank you SwansonPhotos, I really appreciate your help so far. I will try the manual installation and let you know how it works out.

No custom fields there

I deactivated all of them, still the same issue.

I know many websites using LinkWithin without any interference with the comments section. However, I tested your hypothesis by deactivating LinkWithin and I still cannot see the comment section. Do you think it is worth completely uninstalling the plugin to make sure?

Later Edit: I went one step further and deleted LinkWithin files. The comments section was still not there. After this exercise I re-installed the LinkWithin plugin.

Thank you for your input SwansonPhotos. Here is the list of plugins installed and activated: Akismet, Counterize, LinkWithin, Page Links To, Shutter Reloaded, Simple RSS Feeds Widget