WordPress MU

Hi,

is there any way to get rid of they way wpmu handles the default weblog in a subdirectory-type install where / and /blog are the same?

I'd like to do a little portal on / and have my main blog in /blog with a standard blog starting page in domain.com/blog/. By default wpmu maps /blog on / - that's most probably due to conflicting issues with permalinks but as i don't want to use big posts in the main blog on / that wouldn't hurt me.

So is there a possible way probably without modifying the core?

Thanks for your help!

Sure, in your theme.

Use home.php in your theme folder to show what you want under /.

make a page template to pull your blog index. name it "blog". Admittedly, I have not tried this yet... :D but it *should* work.

thanks for the hit, andrea - i'll test that out and report.

Hi again,

is there also a way to have all the posts of this primary blog on top level:

domain.com/2009/10/posttitle.html instead of
domain.com/blog/2009/10/posttitle.html

Thanks!

If you're using subdirectory install - you should not do this :)
Imagine that you have a page domain.com/sports/ and then you'll get a user 'sports' registering. So, /blog/ part is important in subdir installs.

it's a non public installation with only a view blogs and the main blog on / will only have a view pages that should be reachable via /page1 /page2 instead of /blog/page1 /blog/page2 and so on.

So the named problem should not really be a problem.

The fun thing is i can get the permalinks working without /blog but i can't get wordpress to remove it in the permalink-edit-section and so wordpress tries to link the posts to /blog/posttitle.

Weird!

still no one with and idea about that?

I want to change /blog to /site for my main blog entries. I can't seem to find a way to do this, though according the instructions in the admin simply adding "site" to the category base field should do it. Is it even possible?

this problem is addressed on the following thread:
http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=11883