WordPress CMS modifications

There is a problem that has arisen with WordPress 2.6 - it seems to only really affect users that are using ‘index.php’ in their permalink structure (most likely hosted on Windows based servers - another good reason to move to a Linux server!). The bug is detailed over at http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/7306.

This won’t affect users using permalinks without ‘index.php’ in the structure and I have personally upgraded a number of blogs and websites already upto 2.6 with no problems at all (all Linux, no ‘index.php’).

Temporary fixes quoted include:

1. If you’re using Linux/Apache on your webserver, you don’t really need the index.php anyway. Try removing it. The index.php thing was only meant for IIS servers, which don’t support mod_rewrite.

2. If you need/want the index.php to be there, then on the Settings->Permalinks screen, add some values in for the category and tag bases. The words “category” and “tag” will do just fine. As long as they are not blank, this should work around the bug.

More advanced users can apply the patch detailed over at http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/7306

This will be fixed in WordPress 2.6.1 - so those of you on Windows servers would be best advised to wait for this release, which I would expect to appear in the next couple of weeks.