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stylecollision
(@stylecollision)

13 years, 11 months ago

Hi there,

i’m playing around with 3.0-beta and installed a main Site and two further ones. The furthers ones are mydomain.com/site1 and mydomain.com/site2 – the main Site ist mydomain.com.

The problem now is, that all posts (even custom post types) on the main Site have the address mydomain/blog/2010/05/12/post/ or similar. So eacht time we have the leading /blog/ for post-urls.

I took a look in the WordPress Settings and found, that i couldn’t change the permalinks, because the part “/blog” can’t be edited.

Is there any chance to change this? Thanks for an answer.

Yours

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Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)
(@ipstenu)

🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

13 years, 11 months ago

It’s there to prevent collisions. Whole big thing.

Anyway. There are a couple plugins:

http://www.thinkinginwordpress.com/2009/09/remove-blog-slug-from-the-default-blog-of-wpmu-subdirectory-installation/

http://wpmututorials.com/remove-blog/

Thread Starter stylecollision
(@stylecollision)

13 years, 11 months ago

Thanks a lot, that points me into the right direction. Unfortunately the merging of WordPress MU and WordPress prevents the plugin you mentioned from working.

I dropped a comment to the plugin author hoping he will consider helping me out.

Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)
(@ipstenu)

🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

13 years, 11 months ago

Try commenting here: http://buddydev.com/buddypress/remove-blog-slug-from-the-default-blog-of-wpmu-subdirectory-installation/

And just for edification: http://ottopress.com/2010/category-in-permalinks-considered-harmful/

Darfuria
(@darfuria)

13 years, 10 months ago

Has anyone found an update/solution for this? I can’t imagine the amount of site owners who wouldn’t want /blog/ in their URLs.

Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)
(@ipstenu)

🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

13 years, 10 months ago

Supposedly, this will be addressed in 3.1, but right now there is no workaround.

ulyssesr
(@ulyssesr)

13 years, 10 months ago

I’m disappointed to see that there is no workaround for this in terms of removing the /blog slug in WordPress version 3.0. Lots of people like me have an existing blog on the root of my domain. I would like to turn the entire site into a multiblog site with WordPress 3.0. If I enable multisite feature with 3.0, it will break all my permalinks because it will add /blog slug to the original blog. I don’t know .htaccess enough, but will a redirect in .htaccess for a link such as example.com/blog/2010/05/30/article to example.com/2010/05/30/article work?

Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)
(@ipstenu)

🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

13 years, 10 months ago

Other way around, really. You want to point your .htaccess to the /blog directory, otherwise it doesn’t exist.

RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{2})/([0-9]{2})/(.*)$ http://domain.com/blog/$1/$2/$3/$4 [L,R=301]

That said, the plugin I linked to above supposedly works with 3.0 RC2, so. Try that instead.

Anna
(@ohthenoes)

13 years, 10 months ago

I had this problem earlier.

I went to Super Admin > Sites > Edit.

Scroll down to “Permalink Structure” and remove the “/blog” part. That should work.

ulyssesr
(@ulyssesr)

13 years, 10 months ago

ohthenoes,

Thank you! It worked! I didn’t know there’s a permalink setting under Super Admin > Sites > Edit for each individual blog. This solved my issue with the /blog slug. Thank you once again.

Anna
(@ohthenoes)

13 years, 10 months ago

Glad to help 🙂

Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)
(@ipstenu)

🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

13 years, 10 months ago

Wow. That’s awesome! I do wonder if it’ll cause nasty conflicts with other things, but that’s a great fix.

Just make REALLY careful not to name any pages /YYYY though. Pages will still always show up as domain.com/pagename.

Also check your archives (they’re normally domain.com/blog/YYYY )

cazm
(@cazm)

13 years, 10 months ago

Oh, great, that’s sorted my problem out too! Thanks.

Darfuria
(@darfuria)

13 years, 10 months ago

Excellent solution, well spotted.

Manish
(@nims)

13 years, 10 months ago

I hope that doesn’t conflict with categories and other subdirectory sites (in case of sub-directory network install).
Suppose you have a category coolmovies and someone registers a sub directory domain as coolmovies then ?

Andrea Rennick
(@andrea_r)

13 years, 10 months ago

It does.

that’s why the /blog/ is in there and why removing it can cause conflicts.

pretty sure it will be addressed in a future version.