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Thanks Moshu. Just to clarify one thing. When you say the “whole WP install”, you are referring to each and every file and directory found in my root directory. Which I believe is wp-admin, wp-content, wp-include and all the “wp” prefixes to them.
I just want to make sure of the terminology that you are using and that I’m on the same page.

>>>I relate to what you are talking about. Don’t feel dumb,

Nah, I don’t feel dumb 🙂 Just a bit irked at this moment. I forgot all about Filofso plugin until you mentioned it. I installed it. It works just like the Semiologic plugin works so that was fine.

I tried to customize my permalinks by prepending, “/blog/” to the permalink structure. I had to manually update my .htaccess file for whatever reason with the following code;
——————
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /blog/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /blog/index.php [L]
</IfModule>
—————

but now, I get a 500 internal server error for any page but the homepage.

>>>Ah, now I got it… well, if that plugin is using the “home.php” mechanism built in WP (see Template Hierarchy in Codex) then you can not have both.

Wow. I’m surprised. Considering all the wonderful things that WP can do 🙁

I installed the opt-in plugin but still no go. I’ll have to post on their community forum to see what the issue is.

Having said that, I guess another option to get around this is to have WP installed twice. Once for the website and then another for the /blog domain. I’d prefer not to do that but a blogger has to do what a blogger has to do….

Honestly, I didn’t know that when I installed this. Having said that, if I installed WP into a subdir, then my homepage would no longer be the top level domain, would it? ie; http://www.mydomain.com

It would be like http://www.mydomain.com/subdir and then the blog url would
http://www.mydomain.com/subdir/blog . Right?

So I guess there is no way to reach both goals– have the blog url and then have a top level domain for my homepage?

Unfortunately, I was looking under manage > comments.

Thanks!

Sorry for the late reply. I’m just now logging back in to the support forum.

It was sort of a silly oversight that I failed to understand. But aren’t they all?. But basically, in the header section of the template, the code looked like this;

<h1 id="title"><a>"><?php bloginfo('name'); ?></a></h1>

It seems that when I activitated the static plugin, the above code found the ‘home’ slug and turned it to the blog tab because of the
php bloginfo ('home')

To fix this issue, you have to get ride of the code and have the code look something like this.

<li class="<?php echo $pg_li; ?>"><a>" title="Blog"><span>Home</span></a>

I hope this helps others

and one more question. Once I move the WP files to the root directory, should I delete the files in the other directory? ie; delete the files at http://www.domain.com/main but keep the files at http://www.domain.com/ ?

Nice article, Handy. This article is showing how to ensure our blog entries exist in the site root. But what if I’m not using the blog at all? I am just using WP as a CMS for regular old pages. Does this article still remain relevant?