I feel very proud of myself! I did it, I did it!
Instead of my posts at www.soho-life.com/blog/?p=5 being numbers they are now names of the posts http://soho-life.com/blog/2006/08/25/attention-virtual-professionals-in-australia/
The main thing was I had to find out where the .htaccess file resides – it’s in the root diretory of Wordpress.
You can log into your Wordpress account, choose the Options tab, click on Permalinks, select the Date and namebased option, then click on Update Permalink Structure. Then copy and paste the code it gives you and go to your .htaccess file online (I downloaded it and opened it in notepad), paste the code and then reupload the file. I then went back and viewed my blog and it was working fine. So I’ve now done it with most of my other blogs.
One word of warning from my webhost guy – if you use MS FrontPage (as I do for two of my sites that have a blog hosted with them) FP writes to that file too – so I’m not going to tamper with that one yet till I find out if there’s a way to do the WP change.
FP uses the .htaccess file and so I don’t want to disable the FP Server Extensions or the Permalink structures so I’m reading up on that at the moment. I’ve found
this reference and am thinking I might have to get my webguy to make some change for me – haven’t finished going through it all yet.
If you’ve already gone down this road why not share your experiences with the readers of this blog (and it’s owner). KMT
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