Listing a custom Post page

You need to install pretty permalinks:

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Using_Permalinks

Trent

“a custom post page” – is not a good phrase when it comes to WP. Posts are posts and Pages are Pages.

Trent I have mod_rewrite working for me. My regular posts show just as I customized my permlinks to show. https://www.domainname.com/this-is-a-post-topic/2007/03

But I just created a Page Template named about.php
and on my homepage I want to point wordpress to that file.

right now Im doing something like
href=”https://www.domainname.com/about.php”>About

what I want to know is how can I get wordpress to actually link it as https://www.domainname.com/about

In WP you can NOT link directly to template files!
You need to create a new Page (About?) by using that template – if it is something special.
Otherwise just create a Page titled About and let WP to use the default Page template, which should be page.php.

thank you moshu, I think you cleared everything up