WP Permalinks Problem

Hi, Ipstenu,

I wanted WordPress installed at the root because then I could have WP loops on my root homepage say, and i’d have some WP pages like about-us which would not be in the /blog/

Hm, I’ve managed to sort the problem, pagination now works for mysite.com/blog..the fix, courtesy of themadhat.com:

1) In wp-includes/category-template.php search for the following line of code:

$catlink = get_option('home') . user_trailingslashit($catlink, 'category');

Just below that, insert the following:

$catlink = str_replace('/category', "", $catlink);

2) In wp-includes/classes.php search for the following block of code:

if ( isset($error) )
$this->query_vars['error'] = $error;

Just below that, insert the following:

if (@$this->query_vars["name"] == "page")
{
$tmp_ar = $this->query_vars;
$this->query_vars = array();
$this->query_vars["paged"] = str_replace("/", "", $tmp_ar["page"]);
$this->query_vars["category_name"] = $tmp_ar["category_name"];
}

Source: themadhat.com

Any idea why this fixes it, I don’t like editing core files, because the problem is just going to come up again when I update WP?

EDIT: I am reading through your most recent reply now!

My bad I moved the core files to a folder called blog first but i’ve changed it now to a folder called wordpress. Would it matter at all what this folder was called, it’s not used for anything is it, apart from the wp-admin login link?

Also I just re-named the category blog to something random, it wouldn’t let me delete it because there has to be 1 category it seems. The cat name doesn’t matter anyhow since it’s not being used right?

Right, I just have 1 problem, I’ve already got my own index.php in my themes folder which has it’s own stuff going on, to act as my homepage (mysite.com), this works.

But now how do I get my recent posts to show up at mysite.com/blog, what would the file be called (i’ve got the code i already had it in my category.php, just need to know how to show it at mysite.com/blog)?

mysite.com/blog currently shows a 404!

Thanks I managed to sort it using
http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page

Thanks a lot for understanding my problem, as I know my explanations were pretty poor, but I guess I can finally move onto point 3 of your first-post and have that beer 🙂

As a side-note you don’t know if I can just remove categories altogether do you?
I try to post without selecting any cat selected but it just selects one for me automatically when I post..