glutnix

Great work! Would be nice if I could use this for Categories too…

I think I just figured out what’s happening with my similar problem:

First, this is how my site is set up (it’s on a lan, so the urls will be invalid)

Options > General page:
WP address: http://justfocus.dev/articles
Blog address: http://justfocus.dev/articles

General > Permalinks:
Structure: /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/
Category Base: /categories

There is a hidden option which throws spanners in the works, so check it to be sure:
In the wp_options table there is an option called blogfilename. Mine is set to /articles/

Right. Now the problem is that even though my blog is set up in /articles/, WP insists on writing to /.htaccess for it’s permalink structure. I think I solved it by

1. moving /.htaccess to /articles/.htaccess
2. manually editing /articles/.htaccess and replacing all occurances of /index.php? with /articles/index.php?.

WordPress still thinks the blog homepage is at /articles/, but because I’m using a heavily modified theme, it’s not affecting me yet.