Upgraded my blog to Wordpress 2.6 yesterday and encountered an issue with permalinks not working anymore.
Apparently this is a wellknown issue, especially when you host your Wordpress blog on Windows and use permalinks with the index.php in the link, then the permalinks may fail.
I found a few solutions to this, the first one was to change some of the php files and the second was to add some text into the Category base and tag base within the admin console. I went for the second solution, since it seemed must simple and adding the settings worked for me.
Here’s what I found of solutions on the issue:
1. PHP file change
2. Category base and Tag base solution (the simple one) 
Wordpress are working on it and the fix is included in the upcoming version 2.6.1.
I have done some major changes to my blog today. It’s been optimized with some changes to my theme and migrated to the latest version of WordPress and a new server running IIS 7.0.
With WordPress 2.5 the links will now be more SEO friendly. For anyone who might be interested in what I have done, the changes done are:
- Upgrade to latest version of WordPress (2.51)
- Minor changes to the theme, should still be quite user friendly - I hope you all agree
- Added Tags functionality to the blogs
- Migrated the blog to a server running IIS 7.0 and PHP
I hope you all find this an improvement to both performance and the blog in general. If you experience any issues you are most welcome to write me (peter AT iis-digest DOT com), and I will make sure to fix it.
Happy New Year to everyone!
IIS Digest has now been online for 2 years. Looking back 2006 was an exciting year, especially with the launch of IIS 7.0 with Windows Vista and the next generation of SharePoint 2007.
I hope everyone still like my site, IIS Digest should still be worth visiting in 2007.
I’ve changed my blogging software from using Blogger to WordPress, this gives me some more benefits like:
- Catagories
- Better handling of article pages
I’ve given the page a design makeover at the same time, hope you find the page more usable now.
You might have to update your RSS/ATOM feed from using atom.xml to RSS. Just relink to the RSS icon in the bottom of my page.
I apologize for any inconvience if the feed causes any problems.
