[wp-docs] Proposed change to Giving WordPress Its Own Directory

[Lorelle on WordPress]

On your side. Good point. Maybe we need to do a full run at this and make
sure that we aren't shooting ourselves in the foot and making things worse.

Lroelle

On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 12:55 PM, esmi at quirm dot net <esmi at quirm.net>wrote:

> on 20/09/2011 20:15 Lorelle on WordPress said the following:
>
>
>  Someone
>> blogging about cars and never WordPress shouldn't have WordPress in the
>> URL.
>>
>
> Couldn't agree more. Perhaps this should be dealt with at the installation
> stage?
>
> <http://codex.wordpress.org/**Installing_WordPress<http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress>>
> does mention it but perhaps it could emphasised more? In fact maybe the
> whole 5 minute guide could do with an overhaul? There are lots of references
> to "directories" and subdirectories" whilst people seem more used to
> "folders" these days.
>
> Sample rewrite of Step 5:
>
> 5. Get ready to upload the WordPress files to your web server:
>
> # If you want WordPress to run your main site (e.g. http://example.com/),
> upload all of the contents of the 'wordpress' folder (but *not* the folder
> itself)  to your web server.
>
> # If you want to have WordPress to have its own folder on your web site
> (e.g. http://example.com/blog/), rename the wordpress folder on your
> computer to your preferred name (e.g. blog) and then upload the entire
> folder to your web server.
>
> Thoughts?
>
>
> Mel
>
>
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