URL Annoyances Galore!
Feb 21, 2008 Audience Participation, Site News
Well, I finally fixed the URL issue (showing the actual path to the site on the server), but now I face another annoying URL annoyance - making the titles of my article show up.
I’ll admit, I haven’t done a ton of web-work in several years, so I’m a bit rusty. The thing is, now my address shows up as this:
…even after clicking on an article title. I want it to look like this:
http://thesugarbuzzproject.info/contest-1-year-membership-to-weather-underground
What am I doing wrong here? The permalink URLs work fine, but they don’t display in the title bar, which is what I want.
Grrr, Arrg.
Can anyone please help me?
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Tags: contest, domain name, help me, masking, permalinks, reminder, url
February 22nd, 2008 at 3:22 am
From your control panel go to “options” and then click on “permalinks”.
Next, under common options, select “custom,specify below” and enter this into the box “/%postname%” without the quotation marks.
Once set don’t change this. If you do you’re messing with your sites search rankings and incoming links in a big way.
Good luck.
February 22nd, 2008 at 7:44 pm
I did that, and still nothing. I’m thinking it has something to do with the registrar settings.
So much for using a cheap registrar…
February 22nd, 2008 at 8:06 pm
…and now for some reason Entrecard can’t see the widget from their site.
Bah.
February 23rd, 2008 at 11:37 pm
Your uri’s are changed to be “hostgator.com/” as I write this. It’s possible that you don’t have mod rewrite or .htaccess permission so step #1=contact host gator.
Yahoo! users don’t have .htaccess either but they can add “/index.php/%postname%” to get pretty uri’s (sort of pretty anyway but better than none). I suspect theres a workaround with host gator too. Let us know.