Permalink rewrite fix for Wordpress
Friday, July 17th, 2009
This site is powered by Wordpress running on Ubuntu. Some of you might have noticed we recently changed the permalink structure. Permalinks are the permanent links to the posts or categories in a blog site. Permalink can be used to link to your article or category by other blogs or sites, or to send a link to your story in an e-mail message.
The permalinks now all have the structure /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/ where the previous the structure was /%post_id%. Permalink rewrites are based on the Apache Rewrite engine and there are a few caveats when changing the permalink structure. Here's a checklist to get you going...