Can I just say, Word Press is 10x awesome? Cause it is. My first blog CMS was pretty cool and the community was very helpful, but it was a little too advanced for me. It was a very “look under the hood” type of setup. Most of the time, I’d prefer to not look under the hood. Just now, I’m working on some new pages, or rather “Pages”–static pages created within the Word Press CMS. I used to have to do a work-around to get static pages.

Anyway, I was working on a static page, trying to figure out how to set it up so, if I had a page with recipes, you could type in thriceberg.com/recipes/. I don’t have a page with recipes. That is only a cunning example to distract you from what I’m really working on. (Hint: it’s also not knitting) So I notice that Word Press places the page in the directory thriceberg.com/thriceberg-pagename/. Hmm, I’m thinking, I wonder if I can do anything about that?

In short, in the Dashboard it’s Manage->Pages-> then edit the page you want to change the directory for, and on the sidebar you’ll find a box marked “Page Slug.” I don’t know if that’s it’s primary purpose but changing it does in fact change the directory.

The coolest thing about this is, I didn’t have to go on a message board, I didn’t have to bang my head on my desk for an hour or so, I just looked where I thought it should be and there it was. Switching to Word Press is officially one of the best decisions I made in 2007.