[This post it outdated! Please see my WordPress plugin that enables pretty permalinks. This post is for informational purposes only]
OK, so this is mostly for any other users who maybe on Netfirms like me.
For some weird reason, Netfirms does not support “pretty” permalinks in WordPress, despite the fact that they claim to have Apache mod_rewrite enabled (Maybe because AllowOveride isn’t enabled, who knows). That’s why for the last month all of my links have been that crazy, ?p=123 or whatever the heck the post number was. Well, after Netfirms Tech Support was of no help (as usual), I decided to do my own research and hack around a bit. 5 hours later, viola! Pretty permalinks!
That’s right my friends! Welcome to the new (and not really approved) Joelika.com. Hopefully everything is working pretty well, since I didn’t really get a chance to test this before making it live (come on, you know I totally busted this out of my butt this weekend!). I did check it in Safari, FireFox, and Camino, so if you have one of those browsers, javascript turned on, and at least Flash 7 installed, you should be golden. If you are using IE 6, well, I can’t say for sure how it will look. I did put it a lot of hacks so hopefully it degrades well, but like I said, I have no clue. I’ll check it out tomorrow when I’m at work to see how I did.