Yesterday, when I considered I had set my blog back to working order (however basic, but anyway), I invited my fellow students to come visit my blog. They did and readily informed me of a condition that required fixing right away: when they hit the Leave your comments link, the blog just crashed!
Fortunately, I had run into a similar situation in the prehistory of this blog, so I was able to get the link to work as intended. When setting up the Permalinks, I had chosen to customize their URL structure to include the post name*; I just changed the setting to the Default and that got the comments link to work.
*Customizing the URL structure of the Permalinks has the very desirable intent of making the posts in a blog search-engine friendly. But I have not been able to make that work and I’ve had to go back to the dull post number structure…
Jose,
Looks like everything is working fine.
Don’t forget to add the Comment luv plugin if you can.
Be back soon,
Rob
Thank you for stopping by, Rob!
I’ll go get that plugin, you bet.
Jose
As for the customization of the posts URL structure, I came up with a partial solution (I went through the WordPress Codex to try and figure this out. Gosh, they get too technical right away in there!):
Since I have a lot of catchup to do on the latest modules of the program, I decided to settle down for what they call PATHINFO permalinks, which creates “almost pretty” permalinks (?). The URLs this creates do include the post title and it doesn’t cause the blog to crash when you go to the comments. Fair enough!
Hi Jose,
That’s definitely a setback but it seems you handled it pretty well. You identified the problem, fixed it, and moved on. If your experience has been like mine, little obstacles and hurdles are always jumping into my day…but like you, I don’t stop to worry about it much. I just get it taken care of and move on!
Paul
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Thanks for the cheering, Paul!
Yes, there was no use fighting for the prettier permalinks when there’s so much work to do elsewhere. A writeable .htaccess file… what’s that?!
See you at your blog,
Jose