How to add ‘/blog/’ in front of your URL

Let’s say you have your site running with WordPress, which is very likely now that WordPress runs 25% of the web. But along with your site you also have a blog and want to use a separete URL, something like: www.yoursite.com/blog/ and you want your posts to be something like www.yoursite.com/blog/my-post/.

Lucky for you, WordPress can add ‘blog’ to your links.

This is the aprouch we use here in Quema Labs, all our posts are prefixed with the word /blog/ and I want to show you how to do that.

First, go to your Permalinks settings in your Admin Panel > Settings > Permalinks, on Custom Structure you will see something like this:

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So let’s add at the begining the word ‘/blog‘, it will look like this:

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That will prefix all your blog posts with ‘/blog/’ but now we also want the categories and tags URLs working the same, so take a loox at the boxes below, probably they are empty, so let’s fill them with:

blog/category

blog/tag

This time you don’t have to add a slash at the begining:

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Now click Save Change and that’s it!.

 

Custom Post Type

If you are using Custom Post Type, they will also have that ‘/blog’/ in the URL, to avoid that you need to add a new parameter when you register the post type.

For example here in Quema Labs we have a Custom Post Type called ‘theme‘ to show our themes on the site. If we go to the code where we register this CPT and add this:


register_post_type( 'my_post_type', array(
[...]
'rewrite'  => array( 'slug' => 'theme', 'with_front' => false ),
[...]
) );

 

The important thing here is adding the option ‘with_front‘ to false. The ‘slug‘ will be different for your CPT.

With that in place we avoid the ‘/blog/‘ on our theme’s URLs.

Remember to save your permalink settings in Admin Panel after changing your rewrite rules!

 

About the Author

Nico Andrade

Nico Andrade

I'm the owner of Quema Labs, passionate about web design and development. I'm creating for WordPress for 7 years now, and will continue for much more :)