qmnonic

Quick feedback, as I left on another post.

I had the same problem, but it’s not a bug according to the docs here – https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Pages#Creating_Your_Own_Page_Templates .

If you read it carefully, it says…

Note: when creating or editing a Page, the Page Template option does not appear unless there is at least one template defined in the above manner.

So, it only displays the template dropdown if you have something other than the default. Drop an example empty template into your theme directory, and the dropdown will appear.

I had the same problem, but it’s not a bug according to the docs here – https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Pages#Creating_Your_Own_Page_Templates .

If you read it carefully, it says…

Note: when creating or editing a Page, the Page Template option does not appear unless there is at least one template defined in the above manner.

So, it only displays the template dropdown if you have something other than the default. Drop an example empty template into your theme directory, and the dropdown will appear.

Great, thanks for the help!

As an FYI, I had netfirms support looking into the issue (I set them up an instance of wordpress with permalinks for them to debug, they wouldn’t look into it themselves). After 5 days of nothing, I cancelled and switched to https://www.superwebhost.ca and haven’t had any issues. The https://www.superwebhost.ca info pages are slow, but my site is fast and I have no issues with permalinks.

I haven’t figured out a proper solution, but it seems pre-pending “index.php” to your permalink structure allows it to work.

So, in the wp-admin tool, under options -> permalinks, enter this into “custom, specify below:” /index.php/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/

I found this here:
https://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2004/06/01/use-nice-permalinks-in-wordpress-without-the-use-of-mod_rewrite/

I’m guessing netfirms is running off IIS or some non-apache rewrite module, which is causing the problems.

They directed me to the page below – which seems to indicate that it’ll work, but they haven’t any examples that use REQUEST_FILENAME .. I verified that it’ll do rewrite’s, but it just wouldn’t do anything with the wordpress generated .htaccess configuration.

https://support.netfirms.com/idx.php/0/696/article/How-do-I-configure-URL-forwarding-using-modrewrite.html

To comment on the netfirms vs wordpress permalink issue, I’m running into the same issue with Netfirms.

However…

I know of a blog running wordpress 2.0.2 on a different host, that has permalinks running fine.
I setup a blog running wordpress 2.0.3 on yet another host, that has permalinks running fine.
I setup a blog running wordpress 2.0.4 on netfirms, that permalinks doesn’t work with. It was previously running wordpress 1.5 for which permalinks didn’t work either.

I’ve logged a support request with netfirms to solve this issue, but haven’t heard back yet.

Something tells me it’s not a wordpress issue – why would 2.0.2 and 2.0.3 work on other hosts, but 2.0.4 and 1.5 not work on netfirms? I’m guessing there weren’t many changes between 2.0.2, 2.0.3 and 2.0.4 that related to permalinks. It’s a fairly straightforward issue.