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mandywa
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06 Aug 09 2:59 pm

What is the best format to set up a word press blog like..

Hi all

I'll try and explain this without sounding like an episode of "Flight of the Conchords" (which I love, by the way!)...

What is the best way to set up a word press blog like the following...

index page - which links directly to:
blog, categories, whatever

...So that the links appear like the following in the navigation but are all created within wordpress...
link to blog = http://www.myblog.com/blog
link to categories (and their blog posts.. etc) = http://www.myblog.com/category/blog-post-article.php
link to whatever = http://www.myblog.com/whatever

I'm converting a current site and don't want "blog" being included in the post urls / links.

I was going to include in here what I was planning to do (and ask if it was correct) but thought trying to explain that in itself would just confuse things even more. :)


Kind regards
Mandy
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mandywa
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11 Aug 09 5:53 am

 Hi there

Bumping this post... not sure if this will help anyone answer or not...

Basically everytime I do a fresh post on the the blog I'd like the url to it to be converted to a silo style url.

Anyone?

Cheers Mandy
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faradina
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11 Aug 09 2:14 pm

 I'm supposed to have a bit of expertise on using WordPress but I must be getting slow in my old age, with me now a grandma and all. I don't really understand what you want to do.
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mandywa
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15 Aug 09 11:35 am

 Hi Fara

I guess I'm looking for a plug-in maybe? Either that or I may have to do it manually.

I'm going to rebuild my site from scratch. It's currently in a silo style format. I want to rebuild it and use word press.

However rather than having the urls within the blog looking like: (note this is not my real site address - just a pretend one for this post)

mydogshasfleas.com/blog/dog-flea-care/article-on-dog-flea-wash.php

Instead having it look like:

mydogshasfleas.com/dog-flea-care/article-on-dog-flea-wash.php

So as I post each new article or post in it converts the url and changes it like I've suggested above.

It sounded ok when I came up with the idea in my head but I'm now wondering if it's just a plain stupid idea.

Kind regards
Mandy
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Last edited by ampie g on 15 Mar 10 2:49 am, edited 1 time in total.
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clarafaie
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17 Aug 09 2:42 am

 If you will use WordPress to build your site and you don't name any category or page or post "blog", "blog" will not appear in the url
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