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Okay, I’ve figured this out myself; I’ll post the solution here for posterity:

by default, wordpress only includes comments in the pretty permalinks for posts, not for pages (as far as I can tell). after digging around in the source code for a bit, I found that you can get the rss for comments by appending “?feed=comments-rss2” to the end of the page’s url.

So, in my example above, the RSS feed for comments on the page https://barunsingh.com/software/custom-admin-menu is available at https://barunsingh.com/software/custom-admin-menu?feed=comments-rss2

Otto — that doesn’t really work — for a post, the feed associated with the post is a feed of the comments that have been submitted with regards to the post. For a page, the feed associated with that page is just the content of the page itself, and does not include the comments written for that page.

To show you what I mean, consider the following:

This is the feed for a post on my site:
https://barunsingh.com/2006/11/28/sub-urban-shift/feed/

This is the feed for a page on my site:
https://barunsingh.com/software/custom-admin-menu/feed/

As you can see, the latter does not include any comments in the feed…

*bump*

mod_rewrite is indeed on, and i know how to manually edit the htaccess file to get it to do the right thing but i wanted to avoid that level of manual intervention (there can get to be a *lot* of rules in htaccess eventually).

it turns out the problem was that my webserver for some reason was returning False to $is_apache — and that breaks wordpress’ ability to edit the htaccess file or create the code to post in htaccess.

i commented out two lines in admin-functions and that solved my problem. (still talking with my web host to see why it returns false to $is_apache) :
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/44270

NOTE: if there are any WordPress folks reading this, please fix the error handling on this matter — it really shouldn’t tell the user that it has created the permalinks when it hasn’t …

Thank you ! I spent hours trying to figure out this problem before I finally found this thread — commenting those two lines got the problem fixed for me as well.

^ bump ^

This is a great plugin, I’ve found it really useful on my site. I’ve written some new functions that work in conjunction with the existing AMM code that I think a lot of people will find incredibly useful. Here is what they do:

It gets an image from amazon, creates a jpg thumbnail of a specified size from it, and saves that thumbnail in a user-specified directory. Note that when I say a specified size I mean that you are not restricted to the same aspect ratio as the original image — you can create square thumbnails, for example, which is what I do. The script crops the image appropriately so that the image is not distorted. The filename for each thumbnail is unique because it is just the ASIN.

In creating the thumbnail, the code tries to create the thumbnail from a ‘medium’ sized amazon image first, then, if that is not found it tries to find the ‘large’ size image and create the thumbnail from that — this can be particularly helpful because for certain items Amazon does not correctly serve images of a certain size (this happened to me for a pearl jam cd that was not available at the ‘medium’ size)

So the first time my function is called, it creates the thumbnail and returns the appropriate URI for the image — any time after that, it figures out that the thumnail has already been created, and just returns the URI.

The reasons I wrote this extra code are:

(1) It allows for prettier displaying of images if you want to display them in a format that requires specific size and aspect ration, which I need on my website
(2) It is pretty robust against bugs in amazon’s api (like the one i experienced with the pearl jam cd)
(3) It speeds things up a _lot_ (after the thumbnail has been created once).

Point 3 is essential for certain situations.. I have a page where I display all of the music CDs i have in AMM (https://barunsingh.com/randomness/music) — without caching the image covers it takes over 2 minutes to load that page, whereas with the caching it loads very quickly.

If there is any demand for this extra functionality, please let me know. After I clean up the code a bit, I can post it on my website for people to download.. Denyerec — if you want, I can also send it to you to incorporate (with appropriate modifications) into a future release of AMM?