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Changing the WordPress Permalink structure of your website to something that is SEO friendly is something you may want to do – using the default ?id=1234 method is not reflective of your page content.  How you go about making the change to your Permalink format is critical.

I had already changed the WordPress Permalinks to /year/month/post-name/ format.  I wanted additional SEO alignment by updating to  /category/post-name/ [NOTE: the 'category' will be the first/lower one checked for that article if there are more than 1 category used].

To initially make the change, I changed the WordPress Permalink structure to /%category%/%postname%/ using the form field on the following admin page:

http://your.domain.com/worpress/path/wp-admin/options.php

Once I made the change, I could no longer access any post page – they appeared on the main blog page (home page), but when I clicked any post-link, I received a ‘post not found’ error.

THEREFORE, Please Do Not Use the above page to change your WordPress Permalink structure -

DO use the admin dashboard -> Settings -> Permalink page only to change the format of your Permalinks.

Here is a link to the article that will give a very good explanation on what to do if your Permalinks are messed up:

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-advanced-permalinks-cannot-open-old-posts

Thank you,

Vic

Been testing multiple PHP CMS systems these past weeks.  Joomla, WordPress, Mambo, MediaWiki, and Concrete5.  They are all capable systems, they all have their quirks, and have performance issues on my development system.

This dev system is an AMD Duron 1.8 GHz with 512MB of RAM  running Fedora Core 9 with the LAMP stack, and Apache  Tomcat5 Java app server.

The one interesting difference is the administrator modules.  Adding content is a breeze in Mambo, with granular control over most content attributes.

• MediaWiki: This is the software that powers Wikipedia. It is powerful, extensible, and is what it claims to be – a wiki engine.   I guess it could be a CMS, but I am debating using this for general site management functionality with so many more powerful CMS platforms to choose from.
• Pros: A very powerful wiki platform that runs on any platform that supports MySQL and PHP.
• Cons: Having to edit the .php file that contains constants to result in changes to the pages.