Root Directory /blog/ for WordPress 3.0 main Multisite

It’s there to prevent collisions. Whole big thing.

Anyway. There are a couple plugins:

https://www.thinkinginwordpress.com/2009/09/remove-blog-slug-from-the-default-blog-of-wpmu-subdirectory-installation/

https://wpmututorials.com/remove-blog/

Thanks a lot, that points me into the right direction. Unfortunately the merging of WordPress MU and WordPress prevents the plugin you mentioned from working.

I dropped a comment to the plugin author hoping he will consider helping me out.

Try commenting here: https://buddydev.com/buddypress/remove-blog-slug-from-the-default-blog-of-wpmu-subdirectory-installation/

And just for edification: https://ottopress.com/2010/category-in-permalinks-considered-harmful/

Has anyone found an update/solution for this? I can’t imagine the amount of site owners who wouldn’t want /blog/ in their URLs.

Supposedly, this will be addressed in 3.1, but right now there is no workaround.

I’m disappointed to see that there is no workaround for this in terms of removing the /blog slug in WordPress version 3.0. Lots of people like me have an existing blog on the root of my domain. I would like to turn the entire site into a multiblog site with WordPress 3.0. If I enable multisite feature with 3.0, it will break all my permalinks because it will add /blog slug to the original blog. I don’t know .htaccess enough, but will a redirect in .htaccess for a link such as example.com/blog/2010/05/30/article to example.com/2010/05/30/article work?

Other way around, really. You want to point your .htaccess to the /blog directory, otherwise it doesn’t exist.

RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{2})/([0-9]{2})/(.*)$ https://domain.com/blog/$1/$2/$3/$4 [L,R=301]

That said, the plugin I linked to above supposedly works with 3.0 RC2, so. Try that instead.

I had this problem earlier.

I went to Super Admin > Sites > Edit.

Scroll down to “Permalink Structure” and remove the “/blog” part. That should work.

ohthenoes,

Thank you! It worked! I didn’t know there’s a permalink setting under Super Admin > Sites > Edit for each individual blog. This solved my issue with the /blog slug. Thank you once again.

Glad to help ??

Wow. That’s awesome! I do wonder if it’ll cause nasty conflicts with other things, but that’s a great fix.

Just make REALLY careful not to name any pages /YYYY though. Pages will still always show up as domain.com/pagename.

Also check your archives (they’re normally domain.com/blog/YYYY )

Oh, great, that’s sorted my problem out too! Thanks.

Excellent solution, well spotted.

I hope that doesn’t conflict with categories and other subdirectory sites (in case of sub-directory network install).
Suppose you have a category coolmovies and someone registers a sub directory domain as coolmovies then ?

It does.

that’s why the /blog/ is in there and why removing it can cause conflicts.

pretty sure it will be addressed in a future version.