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Does anyone have any suggestions? I’d really appreciate anything!

Ah, I found my answer with a little searching! All I did was reupload the admin folder. I guess some files, upon upload, were corrupted. So, here’s the solution for anyone’s future reference!

Thanks for the reply, manstraw, but I already found what I think is a suitable plugin. I just wish I knew how to successfully get the code to work in the footer.php file, or find a better way of doing this. Besides looking for a new plug-in and making me find out the answer, do you have any suggestions?

Has anyone ever found a solution to this problem? I have the same one and none of these posts have come up with a solution.

This is a reply to sleepedge.

The .htaccess file that you are asking about is exactly how my .htaccess file looks like. Just make sure that the line which says RewriteBase /blog/ is pointing to the correct directory. I’m not sure why you’re still having problems after using this code.

After installing the miniblog, I get the following error:

WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax near ‘ENGINE=MYISAM’ at line 9]
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS wp_miniblog ( id bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment, date datetime NOT NULL default ‘0000-00-00 00:00:00’, blog text NOT NULL, title text NOT NULL, url text NOT NULL, text text NOT NULL, FULLTEXT (blog), PRIMARY KEY (id)) ENGINE=MYISAM

What does this mean?

I can’t explain why, but Clifford, that actually worked! But why? Does anyone else know the answer?

Also, why the heck can’t I find these other posts to begin with? This WP Support area sucks.

Thanks so much!

I actually just made a blank .htaccess file and uploaded it to the root of the blog folder where the index.php exists. I then made the permissions such that it’s writable (666). Then when I successfully add the right text into the .htaccess (or rather, let WP do this for me with the correct permission settings), I get the 403 error.

What’s strange is that I’ve cross-checked all the settings with another website I’m designing and have no problems whatsoever! It doesn’t make any sense!

At first, I was getting the message saying that I didn’t have a file on the server or it wasn’t writable. So I then uploaded one and made it writable.

Now when I make the change so that permalinks are available, the next thing that happens after I submit the change is that I get the Forbidden 403 error. Huh? 403? Why?!

So before I even had an .htaccess file in the directory, it always said successful. But once I either copied the info into the .htaccess and saved it, or when I made the .htaccess writable and WP changed the information itself, I could and still can not access the blog or control panel area without deleting the .htaccess file itself.

bump for any answers!

After replacing all of my post id links with static links of my slugs, everything seemed to work just fine. It’s annoying that this can’t be dynamic but whatever works will have to do for now.

Once I get my blog up, I’ll then want to see if i can change the Permalink structure so that it appears as though I’m looking at the same structure as my static pages now appear as Kafkaesqui explained above.

Here’s an update on my situation.

What I never understood, nor was made clear at all anywhere in the permalinks page (at least from my understanding), that links to other static pages must be coded statically. I was always under the impression that you could link to a dymanic code which would then be generated using a slug.

Here’s exactly what I mean:

In my sidebar, for each of my links, I’ve hard coded the post id. So, my links read “?page_id=#” where # is the actual page created that is located in Manage>Pages section in the control panel. These are hard coded into my sidebar in the template section.

What I had assumed was by turning on Permalinks in the Options>Permalinks section, every instance of “?page_id=# would dynamically convert to my page slug which can be found in the Manage>Pages section for each individual page. However, it seems that enabling Permalinks does not change this for static pages but rather posts.

So, if I go into Options>Permalinks, I currently have activated the Permalink structure /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname% for any posts. When I view my website, I still see the page id code for all my links. This is where my assumption was wrong, at least for static pages.

So, what I’m going to do now is go into every link that I have for my sidebar and within the body and hard code the page slugs into the site. This is a little frustrating because I was hoping this dynamic Permalink structure would work for everything, but I have since found out it doesn’t. I’ll post my results once I’ve completed this task.

Unless, is there another answer or solution that I’m missing?

When I go to options>permalinks and enable permalinks to look like the following, /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%, it doesn’t resolve any of my pages as such.

All of my pages that are currently up on the website were created using the write>pages setup. These are all static pages and won’t change much if at all.

Does anyone have any ideas of how to solve this problem so that I can move on to some of my other ideas?

Hmm… well, it seems that until I can actually get permalinks to work in the first place nothing else I said really matters.

If you want to take a look at the site, it’s https://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com. Permalinks are currently enabled in options>permalink but don’t show up as I activated them.

And yes, mod_rewrite is installed.