I’m attempting to setup a Multisite WordPress Network, but one of the requirements is that each site needs to have their own custom slug in the URL. For example:
http://www.site1.com/blog/
http://www.site2.com/reviews/
http://www.site3.com/commentary/
Currently, so far as I can tell, there is no way of tailoring a per site slug. Domain Mapping is simple using the plugin WordPress MU Domain Mapping (It’s compatible with WordPress 3+ Networks.) But what I really need is the added ability of those custom slugs. Has anyone seen anything of that sort?
I’ll revert to a large collection of individual WordPress Instances if I have to, but this network setup would be the perfect solution if I could get the slugs to work.
The slugs have nothing to do with your multisite setup. Look into modifying each site’s permalink structure instead.
UPDATE
Maybe try to write your own rewrite rules?
The resulting research is that you can’t do what I was after with the default build of WordPress using the Multisite features and the WordPress MU Domain Mapping.
The arrangement can work sub-directory separation of sites, but the only way to allow the sub-directory to exist for domain mapped addresses is to build an entirely new plugin that does the domain mapping with support for that, or to modify the WordPress MU Domain Mapping plugin so that it has the support for it, effectively creating a new plugin out of it.