Ticket #409 (closed enhancement: fixed)

Opened 11 months ago

Last modified 9 months ago

WPMU should not lock the root blog into using a /blog prefix on permalinks

Reported by: JeremyVisser Assigned to: somebody
Priority: normal Milestone:
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Description

I don't think WPMU should lock the root blog into using a /blog prefix on permalinks. Currently, the /blog on the beginning of permalinks is hardcoded.

I realise this was probably added to stop conflicts when not using a VHOST solution, but when using VHOST to put other blogs into subdomains, why lock the root blog's permalinks as such?

Could the /blog requirement be removed if VHOST is 'yes'?

Attachments

options-permalink.rm-blog-prefix.diff (3.2 kB) - added by JeremyVisser on 08/23/07 03:54:27.
Just for reference, I'm attaching what I did on my site to remove the /blog requirement. This is not an ideal solution for _all_ WPMU users, though.

Change History

08/23/07 03:54:27 changed by JeremyVisser

  • attachment options-permalink.rm-blog-prefix.diff added.

Just for reference, I'm attaching what I did on my site to remove the /blog requirement. This is not an ideal solution for _all_ WPMU users, though.

08/24/07 17:56:21 changed by lunabyte

For a subdirectory install, it's pretty much a requirement so that it can pull the relevant information. (AFAIK)

However, having this as optional on a subdomain install would be a very good thing.

Then again, so would being able to remove the darn /category/ deal as well, but that's been fought and fought for with WP for a long time. In the end, you can use a plugin to knock that out, and I suppose there has to be some level of "idiot proofing" in place. Although, a simple lookup to see if a page-slug contradicts a category name would be a better option as well.

08/27/07 00:34:15 changed by JeremyVisser

Yeah, when I was referring to VHOST, I was referrring to subdirectory vs. subdomain installs.

10/18/07 16:07:27 changed by donncha

  • status changed from new to closed.
  • resolution set to fixed.

Got a fix for this in [1104]. Existing blogs should still use the /blog/ convention unless the admin removes it.