I made a mistake in changing my WordPress permalinks, but by the time I’d discovered it my blog had already been indexed. Fixing the permalinks meant breaking those indexed URLs, leading to a bad user experience, but leaving them as is wasn’t really an option.
Last night, after getting 404′d while using Google to search my [...]
Posted April 19, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: 404, apache rewrite, mod_rewrite, permalinks, redirect, rewrite, rewrite rules, wordpress. 7 Comments.
Between WordPress 1.x and 2.x there was a big change to the way rewrite rules are handled.
In the old days, everything got written out to a .htaccess file. Every condition, every form of permalink could be found there, and I had some comfort knowing I could see and mess with it all. I was a [...]
Posted April 16, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: $wp_query, $_REQUEST, .htaccess, apache, apache rewrite, rewrite rules, wordpress, wpopac. 2 Comments.
