webalchemist

or maybe

$love.=$helping_others.$wordpress

or maybe as an array

$love = array(
    platform  => 'wordpress',
    action => 'helping others solve problems'
);

but that’s all pretty “off topic”… but it does say at the bottom of the page here: CODE IS POETRY…

Hey Duck__boy, thanks so much for your responses…

I have just chalked this up as one way businesses (yahoo) drives customers towards premium services. (or other providers)

I’m guessing for now that he’ll be happy with it as it is for now given the expense to buy, set up and migrate the site.

If he does want to do something different I’ll check out your tip on the $wp-rewrite. I’m certainly not a wordpress expert so I really appreciate your tips!

Cheers and props for staying involved with the community and sharing the (code) love…

or is that

love

Since you may be wondering, how the hell can I have permalinks if there is no htaccess, I will tell you.

Yahoo wordpress packages come pre-rolled with a special plugin for permalinks that was provided by the yahoo hosting team.

If the client REALLY wants to get rid of “blog” and wants to pay for the work then perhaps I could hack that module, but I’d really rather not…

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I came across many other posts of people having trouble with:
yahoo wordpress 404, yahoo wordpress page not found, yahoo menu links not working, yahoo wordpress some pages broken.

Hi duck_boy and thank you so much for responding to my post so quickly!

And to reply to your assertion, you are and you are not barking up the wrong tree.

Check out this dandy page here from the Yahoo hosting help servers:

Readers visiting this page will tearfully read that:

The name .htaccess refers to the main configuration file for Apache, a popular open-source HTTP server. The .htaccess file can be used to create custom error pages and web page redirects, set up password protection, enable SSI, and more. Yahoo! does not currently allow you to upload .htaccess files to your account. For other customization options, we recommend the Custom Error Pages and password-protection features available in your Web Hosting Control Panel.

Boo Hoo NO HTACCESS FOR YOU!! (if you use yahoo).

So now I have the word blog in all my urls.

where’s the vomit emoticon?

Wow, so after 6 hours of troubleshooting and crying and tearing my hair out, I changed the blog directory name from it’s original “wordpress” directory to the SEO preferred “magic” directory and finally back to the “blog” directory.

The good news is that my pages that start with the slug text “magic” are magically working great. The bad news is that I wasted 6 hours for nothing on yahoo janky bs.

Never use Yahoo. Its’ like Yahont or whatever.

</rant>

Well,
I think I figured it out…

Because Yahoo! hosting will not let you move wordpress to the root directory, I renamed wordpress directory to magic to get better seo…

Unfortunately, the rewrite is breaking any page that has a slug that starts with magic…

eg: mywebsite.com/magic << wordpress install

mywebsite.com/magic/magician-al-huth << page fails

mywebsite.com/magic/magic-for-kids << page fails

mywebsite.com/magic/al-huth-magician <<page works great!

I think the yahoo rewrite rule is jacking my page.

sadly Yahoo will not let me adjust any htaccess settings and all I can do is change the wordpress directory name again or not use any slugs that start with magic.

Lesson = never use Yahoo hosting for wordpress.

klynam Thankyou for your post.

So apparently (a) the permalink of my original parent page got a glitch in it; (b) that glitch is stuck in my WP install; and (c) no amount of changing/resetting the global permalinks, or the index.php file, or the .htaccess file had any effect at all.

The workaround for me was a new parent page with a new permalink URL.

(Though in retrospect, I wonder if I could have kept my original parent page and simply change that page URL permalink…???)

I also had several pages on wordpress top level menu navigation that would not work with permalinks set to pagename.

After reading your post, I did a test of changing the slug to another string and the page worked. I changed it back to the old string and the page gives me 404.

I am pretty certain that “magic-acts” and “magician-al-huth” are not on the reserved names list.

REGRETTABLY, I am working on a client’s web project that is hosted with YAHOO HOSTING, booooo, no htaccess for you!!

How would some specific permalinks be persistently broken?

So far my resolution is as klynam said:

” simply change that page URL permalink (to a NEW url)”

~ woe be to ye who changes back to the original url…

How can I fix this and still use the existing urls??

I referenced: WordPress Database Relational Diagram

I also read this great article on How WordPress Post Slugs Work

About 1/2 down they page they say:

That’s where an .htaccess file comes in.

That’s where I run into another Yahoo!! (more like a yikes!)

no htacces access with yahoo. boo hoo.

WHY are my Permalinks being blocked!??

well, I did it. I crumbled to the pressure of broken code and bought the gold cart version. Although now I think that the fixes I have found may have even been helpful in the free version…

If you have not already seen this post, you should check it out. It is a bit outdated but basically advises turning off the address over ride in the paypal_multiple.php file.

https://graphicalguru.com/2008/02/04/using-wp-shopping-cart-on-semiologic-site/

CHARGE!!!!

I’m still trying to get this up and running. My preference would be to have paypal handle all tax instead of setting it up in wp-ecommerce. I’ll keep you posted.

Hello to all…

Sorry to hear that you are experiencing the wp e-commerce blues. This module seems kind of scandalous to me because it talks hard about all this fabulous functionality and has a flashy web site, but if you do the research and get in to using it, most likely you will run into about 15 dead ends, read many cries for help from others that go unanswered from instinct.

It seems to me that their software is complicated enough to look like it is really good to get you into taking the time to install it all, but then when it comes to the rubber meeting the road and everything working, they just want to you to buy the gold cart.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m all about giving credit where credit is due and paying for work. What I don’t like is someone representing that there is this free, yet, what is free is a pile of craziness that can barely get off the ground without hours of hacking, hunting and pulling out hair.

I emailed instinct asking for support and they said:
“the free version is supposed to be a starting point for developers.”

So while this module might be great, you should look at it with the intention of purchasing the gold cart because the free version is guaranteed to burn up your budgeted hours faster than you can say: configure my store to work with paypal.

baahaahaahaaaaaaa. What a sick joke. wp e commerce for “free” … right.

Hello Scott,

Sorry to hear that you are experiencing the wp e-commerce blues. This module seems kind of scandalous to me because it talks hard about all this fabulous functionality and has a flashy web site, but if you do the research and get in to using it, most likely you will run into about 15 dead ends, read many cries for help from others that go unanswered from instinct.

It seems to me that their software is complicated enough to look like it is really good to get you into taking the time to install it all, but then when it comes to the rubber meeting the road and everything working, they just want to you to buy the gold cart.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m all about giving credit where credit is due and paying for work. What I don’t like is someone representing that there is this free, yet, what is free is a pile of craziness that can barely get off the ground.

I emailed instinct asking for support and they said:
“the free version is supposed to be a starting point for developers.”

So while this module might be great, you should look at it with the intention of purchasing the gold cart because the free version is guaranteed to burn up your budgeted hours faster than you can say: configure my store to work with paypal.

baahaahaahaaaaaaa. What a sick joke. wp e commerce for “free” … right.