Multisite Permalinks

  • Resolved B

    (@bh8489)


    13 years, 8 months ago

    Hi all-

    I just enabled networks on my WP3.0 site, only to find that my permalinks for the main site now include blog/ in all post URLs. For example, previously, my posts used to be domain.com/2010/08/01/post-title/; they are now domain.com/blog/2010/08/01/post-title/. Oddly enough, the categories still have my custom modifier; domain.com/category/cat-name/ is still used, not domain.com/blog/category/cat-name/. In addition to categories, pages are also still fine (domain.com/about/, not domain.com/blog/about/). I updated to 3.0.1 after activating multisite, and the issue persists.

    In permalink settings on the primary site, blog/ shows up as an unconfigurable prefix in front of my permalink choices. On all additional sites, everything works fine.

    I do not have a site, category, tag, or anything else called “blog” so I’m not sure where it comes from. Any guidance is much appreciated, thanks!

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  • Andrea Rennick

    (@andrea_r)

    13 years, 8 months ago

    Known result of using the subfolder structure, and this is mentioned on the setup page (I’m pretty sure it is).

    There’s threads here in the forum on how to remove it if you wish.

    Thread Starter B

    (@bh8489)

    13 years, 8 months ago

    Hi- Thanks for the response, I don’t know how I missed all of the other posts when I searched before making a new thread.

    I tried this plugin that was suggested in another thread, and it does not work. I then found that the permalink option on the master wordpress options page allows removal of the blog/ slug. That panel is accessible from Super Admin > Sites > Edit > Options as well (under Permalink). Removing blog there worked. Another user also said that the blog/ slug is slated to be removed or made optional in WP3.1, but I haven’t gotten around to checking if that’s true or not.

    Thanks.

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    13 years, 8 months ago

    That is still the plan for 3.1 (we’re on 3.0.1)

    raskull

    (@raskull)

    13 years, 8 months ago

    ok wait a sec… I thought Bad Things Happen when blog/ is removed altogether… that it’s ok to change the word to site/ or something, but not removed altogether. True or false?

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    13 years, 8 months ago

    Bad things CAN happen when you change blog to anything (be it site or nothing at all).

    Basically if you change it, you stop WordPress from being able to check for collisions between your main site and any generated subsites. Among other things.

    I wrote up details about this … http://code.ipstenu.org/switching-to-wordpress-multisite-breaks-links/

    raskull

    (@raskull)

    13 years, 8 months ago

    Got it. Just to recap, quoting you:

    Remember, by doing this you will BREAK the ability of WordPress to check for conflicts between your main site’s urls and any new site.

    In other words if I change blog/ to dog/ and then assign the subsite Dog a site address of /dog I will have a problem. But I’m still fuzzy on what the problem is if nothing is there…

    One question: Why do you refer to using the Super Admin > Sites > Edit > Options > Permalink method to remove it as a hack? Isn’t that what it’s there for? Or put another way, do the plugins for this purpose do something better?

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    13 years, 8 months ago

    In other words if I change blog/ to dog/ and then assign the subsite Dog a site address of /dog I will have a problem. But I’m still fuzzy on what the problem is if nothing is there…

    Precisely. There will be no problem if you take care of your site. But let’s say you let anyone make a subsite, and THEY pick dog, not knowing you were using it. Or you make a page called dog? Neither of those will get checked by WordPress anymore. Badness occurs. If it’s just you and your site, well, I made the change and I’m not worried.

    And I call it a hack because the options section is sort of like the advanced user section. Do NOT mess with it unless you know what you’re doing, playing there can jack your site past repair. Hack is the wrong term. Advanced topic, perhaps? Not something I’d really want everyone and their mom to know until they’re capable of understanding how permalinks work and why the check is important.

    raskull

    (@raskull)

    13 years, 8 months ago

    I guess the learning curve never flattens out around here…

    So aside from unforseen havoc caused by overlaps (just to experience the train wreck, I assigned a site address of “/2010” to a subsite), does leaving out blog/ generate extra rules for url resolution? (Sorry if this terminology is not quite right — I’m trying to parrot what I read in the articles.)

    For example in
    animals.com/blog/category/dog
    the insertion of blog/ pulls the structure up parallel to the subsites, like
    animals.com/dog/category/chihuahua
    and then the regular rules apply (checking the next part of the url for comments/, search/, category/, tag/, author/, etc).

    Whereas removing blog/ altogether like this:
    animals.com/category/dog
    causes it to branch sooner (at animals.com instead of at animals.com/[whichsite]) and therefore generates extra rules.

    Or something like that?

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    13 years, 8 months ago

    Otto’s post (which is linked to in mine) explains it better, but that’s the gist of it.

    And the more rules, as it were, the more expensive, process wise, it is for your server to generate the pretty permalinks.

    John O

    (@jossoway)

    13 years, 8 months ago

    Hi,

    Glad I found this thread, it has explained a lot about /blog/.

    One question – if I go into the super user admin panel and remove /blog/ from the permalink structure, is there any way for that to get back in there automatically, without user intervention?

    Thanks.

    Andrea Rennick

    (@andrea_r)

    13 years, 8 months ago

    All I can think of is maybe on upgrade.

    Burbridge

    (@cinemaminima)

    13 years, 6 months ago

    For me the word “blog” is the problem. I wish it were possible to have a different word with the same functionality.

    Some events that my organization covers warn that having “blog” in the title or URL is sufficient to refuse accreditation to journalists on our staff.

    I suggest http://www.example.com/site/sitename instead

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    13 years, 6 months ago

    The problem really is there’s no one-true-way 🙂 There’s no way that’s perfect for everyone. Some people want /news or /posts or a number. Hopefully this will be fixed for WP 3.1 but at least it CAN be changed.

    Andrea Rennick

    (@andrea_r)

    13 years, 6 months ago

    AFAIK, it;s not on the roadmap for 3.0.

    patches welcome. 🙂

    Bookewla

    (@bookewla)

    13 years ago

    Thanks, that worked for me

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