Epidiascope

I run WordPress in the root of my site, but dislike the fact that whenever anyone mistypes a url anywhere else in my site, they get sent to the WordPress error page. The fix is fairly simple if WordPress is installed in its own directory…

Edit your .htaccess in the root of your site to look like this:

# BEGIN WordPress

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^archives/.*$ /index.php [L]
RewriteRule ^feed.*$ /index.php [L]
RewriteRule ^page/.*$ /index.php [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^wordpress/.*$ /index.php [L]

# END WordPress

Now, when a user mistypes a url in the non-wordpress portions of your site, they will see a normal apache error. I use the archives/ formatting for my old posts, you may have to customize yours differently. Additionally, you may need to modify the last line if your blog is not installed in wordpress/. The last few lines DO need to remain there, because WP seems to do some fancy re-writing for the more advanced bits of the admin interface, such as adding open-ids to user profiles.

You may need to add other lines depending on what other modules you may have installed that add further items to the root namespace besides the page views.

I also have the lines:

Redirect 301 /login http://thefire.us/wordpress/wp-login.php
Redirect 301 /logout http://thefire.us/wordpress/wp-login.php?action=logout

which allow me to log in and out via http://site/login rather than retyping or bookmarking the admin url.