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

[Andrea Rennick]

I'm all for adding bits to the install procedure to persuade people to
not use /wordpress/. Yes.

a.

On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 5:03 PM, Lorelle on WordPress
<lorelleonwordpress at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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> 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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