Permalinks sux, and the download page
So it turns out that permalinks suck - they look pretty but it changed the htaccess to the point that when you wanted to go to a directory like the downloads directory, WordPress just gave you a 404 error. After spending days trying to find a fix I finally just said, “fuck it” and turned them off. Which led me to my next discovery: password protecting the downloads directory messed up my linking directly to the mp3s in that directory (duh). I can come up with a work-around for that, but time issues are forcing me to put that on the back burner for now.
(EDIT: after re-reading the wordpress codex link above, I’ve got a few more ideas about how I can fix the permalinks issue, but that’s still on the back-burner, too).
Like tonight, another new version of WordPress was released, so I fired up the ol’ auto-update plugin and took care of it, but that was just another thing taking away time I needed to spend getting this site up to at least a bare-bones level of acceptableness.
The good news is I found out these problems now and was able to fix them with relatively little effort and now will be able to focus on other things. Yay.
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