George Zamfir. Blog.

Here’s a frustrating problem for WordPress users hosting their blog with Netfirms – the Permalinks may break the website navigation if changed from the default setting.

Note: I gave up the WordPress automatic install provided by Netfirms (which I think it’s version 2.3) and I manually installed 2.5.

So, I wanted my web links to look like this:

http://www.bloggeorge.ca/2008/04/sample-post

not like this:

http://www.bloggeorge.ca/?p=123

However, that broke the website, linking all the pages to the first page. Fortunately, the solution is very simple. Here’s what you need to do…

1. Download the Netfirms Pretty Permalinks Plugin from the WordPress Plugin Directory. The current version is 1.0 beta 2
2. Upload ‘netfirms_permalinks.php’ to your ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory
3. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
4. Choose your permalink structure through the ‘Permalinks’ submenu under the ‘Options’ menu

That’s it, you’re done. If you still have problems you can contact the author of this fix/plugin here