Entry links on multi site missing "blog" in URL

Hi,

do you refer to posts as entries? Or is this another post_type?

Sorry with entries I mean the normal posts.

This should work out of the box with posts. Please provide a URL where I can check this.

This web page points to the same post on the dutch site. The link generated is this while it should have been this. Again this is a multi site installation.

It is, of course, a multisite installation. The Multisite Language Switcher does not work in a single site.

So you have a multisite with subdirectories instead of subdomains. How did you set the permalinks for the posts?

The permalink type has been selected as Post name.
I might add that the /blog/ part is already included in the fixed part of all options except the standard one (also for category and tag).

And I also do not have subdirectories in real. The subdirectory is set virtually by WP multi site. I do not have subdomains.

I know the configuration of multisites very well as you can probably imagine. ??

And the interesting part is – because the WordPress function get_permalink doesn’t know that there is a prefix – how do you set ist that there is a /blog/ prefix: a plugin, did you write /blog/ in the permalink config… ?

If I execute the get_permalink() function on a test site (off-line but has the same structure with the /blog part) the /blog part is normally included in the url. So permalink function knows this. As said the permalink options in the general settings offer the /blog part in the greyed out area so I haven’t put this in there.
I installed multi site months ago and this is my first installation like this. When I was satisfied with my test site I cloned the lot according to a description I found on the net. So the /blog part remained.
If I look in the detailed settings for a multi site the option “Permalink structure” has been set to /blog/%postname%/. Here I can obviously remove the /blog part. But I would rather not go that way as I think the /blog part is a good addition (to discern from pages).
Is there a WP function available that gives you the permalink prefix?
Or should I just plainly remove the /blog part for option “Permalink structure”?

The detailed settings can be viewed through this url:
https://myurl.com/wp-admin/network/site-settings.php?id=1

OK, all this is a little bit clearer now. The blog part is normally set in the primary blog of a multisite installation.

You can override the get_permalink function in the plugin with a filter. You should test this but you can then just put it in your functions.php:

function my_msls_options_get_permalink( $url, $language ) {
    if ( 'post' == get_post_type( get_the_ID() ) ) {
        $count = 1;
        $url   = str_replace( home_url(), '', $url, $count );
        $url   = home_url( '/blog/' . $url );
    }
    return $url;
}
add_filter( 'msls_options_get_permalink', 'my_msls_options_get_permalink', 10, 2 );

This will add /blog/ to every post.

Cheers,
Dennis.

Why would I want to add /blog/ to every post URL? That part is already there or not?

And if this part is normally set in the primary blog of a multi site why can’t the plug-in pick this up and create the correct url itself?

I have no idea how your setup is. You refer to a test of another site and I have still no useful info how the permalink settings of these sites are done. Remember these are set in every single site. What I offered is a work-a-round to add the blog-slug to posta btw…

The main problem now is that I cannot post screen images so you can see exactly what my permalink options are. The test site I was referring to has exactly the same set-up as the site I am reporting the problem for. On the test site I can experiment and check the values of get_permalink and get_home_url functions by echoing. This I do not want to do on my production site.
Is there a way to put images in here as an attachment (so you can see the permalink options automatically include the /blog part)?

As you stated this name /blog was apparently chosen by me when I initially set up the multi site. As this seems to be a normal feature of multi site I ask why this part is not incorporated into the urls generated by MLS plug-in?
Or is my only way to solve this problem by the removal of the /blog name in “Permalink structure” option?

Is there some other information that you perhaps need to be able to pin-point this problem?

You can put the screenshots anywhere. The only thing is that I prefer to not to have to register me for a new service. ??

The problem in you case is that MSLS is indeed processing the rewrite rule but has no indication for a prefix so it removes the blog part. It is important to understand this to be able to offer a proper solution…

Problem is that I never put screen shots on some open site. You cannot post them in here directly?

I was trying to locate where you can see the permalink structure. It is in the table wp_options as option_name permalink_structure (but you probably know that).
I suppose MSLS knows what the blog id is of the site that it is pointing to?
For posts URLs you cannot pick up the string from the same option_name in the wp_n_options table (where n is the blog id)?

Just a thought: what will happen if someone chooses a different permalink structure in only one of his multi sites? Will the URLs for posts also be wrong for that particular site?

You can send the screenshots to me: [email protected]

MSLS doesn’t use the tables but switch_to_blog() and can then access the options for the particular site.

You can set the permalink structure in every site however you like. ??