Blogging Question

[chickwoutadick]

when i make a post, wordpress automatically numbers it ?ag=1. so then i link to it on twitter or tumblr with a picture. then a few days go by and i make another post which now has that same link. so if somebody goes to the first pic and follows the link, it won't go to that post, but the most recent post. should i be doing something about this. if so, how do i fix this? is there a permanent numbering system i should be using or something?

[PFLJayden]

when i make a post, wordpress automatically numbers it ?ag=1. so then i link to it on twitter or tumblr with a picture. then a few days go by and i make another post which now has that same link. so if somebody goes to the first pic and follows the link, it won't go to that post, but the most recent post. should i be doing something about this. if so, how do i fix this? is there a permanent numbering system i should be using or something?

Follow these steps, it will help you out better. PLUS it will help you better your SEO results also:

1) Login into your wordpress site admin.
2) Scroll down to your settings and click on permalinks

It seems to me that you have them set to default, custom, or numeric.

3) You want to select the "Day and Name." Then click on "Save Changes"

Before, I'm guessing your pages were like this:
site. com /?p=123 (ignore the spaces)

now they should look like this:
site . com/index.php/2011/10/15/i-love-penis/

By doing this, you won't have that problem anymore. As I said, it will help you with SEO stuff.

[chickwoutadick]

Excellent! thanks so much!!! love you jay :kiss cheek:

[PFLJayden]

Excellent! thanks so much!!! love you jay :kiss cheek:

Back atcha mama!

[Bec]

If you want to dump out the index.php part of that url string, have your host enable mod_rewrite on the server. Then create a custom permalink with various available tags. For instance let's say you want: yourdomain.com/category/year/month/postname

In the Custom Permalink section you'd put this

%category%/%year%/%month%/%postname%

Also, I'd download your .htaccess file and open it with notepad and make sure it looks like this:

# 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

If it doesn't, then delete what you see on it and copy paste the above into it and resave it, and send it back up with your ftp program and let it replace the old one.

gone :fishing: