Setting up pretty permalinks in WordPress on a Windows-based server poses some difficulties. If you want a very easy solution using 404 redirects, check my previous post on pretty permalinks. The solution can be implemented by anyone, so long as your host allows you to set custom error pages (like my really cool host Parcom does).

But I had some challenges that I hadn’t foreseen. As I continued posting garbage on my blog, I noticed that when I clicked on a category, then clicked on the “Previous Entries” link, an extra word would be inserted into the path, producing a url that didn’t exist. So, I’d be re-directed to the main page of my blog (that’s where my custom error page for truthsaves.org redirects to).

So, I started searching for solutions. If I went back to the default WordPress links the “Previous Entries” link worked fine. It just wouldn’t work when I used my pretty permalinks solution. So, I searched and searched. I posted in forums. I poked around in the different php files . . . to no avail.

Did I find a solution? Well, yes, I did. And here it is.

Download this plugin. Unzip it. Upload it. Activate it. Voila! Done. Everything works. I wish the solution was more complicated and impossible to figure out, but I’m sorry, it’s not. Next time I’ll try to make it harder. And frankly, I don’t know what this plugin does, but now the “Previous Entries” links work correctly.