nelson-ray

Hey thanks,
The reason why I would like to do this is because I will try to stream videos and my bandwidth would be hosed if people tried to download it with wget. On a similar note what would be the best method to store multimedia files so that people could not download the whole directory?

get off your high horse man. obviously if sites like myspace implement such a feature its not something forbidden / illegal. I believe its a legitimate question and didn’t ask for a pseudo moralistic speech…

umm nope. youtube is advertised with their logo and that should be enough. furthermore I have seen sites like mysapce implement such a feature.

Nevermind I solved it – it was my bad. The links for the categories had href=”?cat=2″ rather than “https://url/?cat=2” …after changing the links works fine now. Thanks!

Hmm I did run into a problem.

I set up my permalinks to be like this https://url/postname.html
initially it works. I can browse main index, archives, etc, select a particular post and get the singple post view. The problem is after this.

I have navigation to my categories on a horizontal bar below the header. If I click a category…the url will become

https://url/postname.html/?cat=5

rather then go straight to the category like this

https://?cat=5

this is a big problem because the user gets stuck with the single post article (https://url/postname.html or https://url/postname.html/?cat=5) and can’t get out of it unless they click home…then it goes back to https://url

anybody can help clear this up with the permalink not rendering categories correctly?

Holy shit..I didn’t know this! I have been wanting to use the pretty permalinks for months but I thought if I changed the defaults urls all the old incoming links would be lost. I did change to pretty permalinks and the incoming links are still good.

HandySolo thanks for this info!

Out of curiosity I chose /%postname%.html
to be my permalink (did not use dates at all just /website/postname.html). I’m wondering if two posts have the same name what would happen?

Hey that sounds promising but could you explain that in laymens terms? Does that mean if i change to this format /2007/03/18/sample-post/…incoming links using the older ?=199 would still work as well?

I can confirm that it does work. Stupid me typed in the wrong ip address the first time. In Dashboard –> Options I set it to the correct local lan ip address and it now works on my local computer as well as the other computers in my lan! Now I can see how the nasty IE 6 is going to bork my website ??

Hey thanks for the help. I did try to change the localhost setting in Dashboard–>Options and it didn’t seem to work for me. I follwed drmike’s advice and just uploaded the directory into a subdirectory on my website. That works well and lets me tinker with the settings and test it on various browsers/platforms. I appreciate the help thanks again…cheers

Trent thanks! Do you know how I can increase the size of the standard thumbnail?

anybody?

hey…that plugin works nicely…thanks you very much! (huge itch scratched…)