Avoiding domain.com/blog/permalink

  • Resolved joaoramos

    (@joaoramos)


    15 years, 5 months ago

    After reading the articles Create A Network, Migrating Multiple Blogs into WordPress 3.0 Multisite and Installing Multiple Blogs, I still have a question before migrating all my blogs to a Multisite setup.

    To prevent the forced main blog domain.com/blog/permalink structure, can I install my WordPress Multisite on an “unused” directory like domain.com/network and then setup all the real blogs anywhere else, probably using the WordPress MU Domain Mapping? This configuration would be represented as:

    • domain.com/network -> the WordPress Multisite installation
    • domain.com/ -> blog ‘A’
    • otherdomain.com/ -> blog ‘B’
    • andotherone.com/ -> blog ‘C’

    Please notice that blog ‘A’ is actually in the root of the WordPress Multisite installation and that domain.com/network is the ‘main’ blog (to never be shown or published).

    This will be addressed, and customizable, in a future version of WordPress.

    Or I could wait until WordPress fixes this (as quoted above) and releases a native mapping tool. Any suggestions?

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  • Andrea Rennick

    (@andrea_r)

    15 years, 5 months ago

    removing the main blog’s /blog/ slug has little to do with domain mapping.

    At any rate, none of the subsites woudl have the /blog/ in them anyway.

    mapping them to another domain does not make them go elsewhere.

    Domain mapping does not work if your installtion is in a subfolder.

    # domain.com/network -> the WordPress Multisite installation
    # domain.com/ -> blog ‘A’

    You can’t do this.

    You CAN remove the /blog/ link. Go look under Super Admin -> Sites and edit the main site. there’s nothing to prevent url collisions though, but if you’re domain mapping this is a non issue.

    3.1 will not have any changes for this.

    Take blog A, make it a multisite install, fix the /blog/ permalink. Then you can have subsites off the main domain and map them to your heart’s content.

    Thread Starter joaoramos

    (@joaoramos)

    15 years, 5 months ago

    Perfectly understood. I wasn’t aware that by mapping the blogs, I wouldn’t come across with the /blog/ link issue, but it all makes sense now. Thank you so much, Andrea. Have a lovely Christmas! 🙂

    Andrea Rennick

    (@andrea_r)

    15 years, 5 months ago

    Thanks, you too. 🙂

    (Everyone is coming to my house. Two days of eating. 😀 )

    Just an extra:

    “I wasn’t aware that by mapping the blogs, I wouldn’t come across with the /blog/ link issue, but it all makes sense now. “

    Even in a subfolder install, the subsites don’t have the /blog/ in them either. Just the main blog does, and only the main blog. If you look at atypicalife.net, you’ll see a small network where the main blog has the /blog/ and the other blogs don’t. 🙂

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