From what I can see, https://buddypress.org/blog/ is posted from the main site and not in a subdirectory blog like you think it is. The /blog/ navigation comes from default theme this using the “blog” slug you see in lines 74-76
“Is it possible to do what I have in mind without creating a new sub-domain blog?”
If you want the admin blog link in main site’s home page to open up to http://blog.example.com/2010/04/26/hello-world/ per your posts above, then no. You would have to create sub-domain blog and post there, then call those admin posts in home page of main site via RSS widget, or query to list posts from your admin blog, etc. and those links would open up to your preferred URL structure above.
Thanks for your feedback @mercime. I checked the default’s theme header, lines 73-77, and it points to “Blogs” not “Blog” singular. Clicking on the Blogs menu link shows me the blogs in the network — not the latest posts.
I’m open to doing it the way buddypress.org does, but I can’t seem to get both /blog (“latest posts” page) and a custom homepage to work hand-in-hand. I have a feeling it’s something simple I don’t have configured properly. When I previously installed wpmu with sub-directories I was getting the following URL http://example.com/blog/2010/04/26/hello-world/ … going to /blog would redirect to the site’s front page.
Disclaimer: I’m new to wpmu and buddypress, though I do have experience with single wordpress installs.
@r-a-y So close… I followed the instructions:
1) Login to the WP backend, navigate to “Pages > Add New”. Create an empty, new page called “News” or “Blog” or whatever you want. This page will contain the blog updates.
2) Under “Settings > Reading”, set front page to “Activity Stream” and your posts page to the new page that you just created.
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Using: Default BP Theme
Front page shows “Activity Sream” but the new “Blog” page I created shows a normal page similar in format to the About page, not the blog’s latest posts.
Page attributes:
Parent > Main Page (no parent)
Template > Default Template
Order > 0
@r-a-y Got it working! The instructions you gave are correct. I didn’t realize that both “Front page” AND “Posts page” under Settings > Reading had to be altered. I originally only altered the Front page.
Working solution:
Front page set to “Activity Stream”
Posts page set to “Blog”
Thanks @r-a-y!
