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In order to refrain from possible duplicate URLs or conflicting URLs, I really want to use "postname" for a clean URL structure, EXCEPT for the blog ... for the blog and it's posts, I always want /blog/ to be apart of the URL. This makes total sense, and I don't quite understand why it doesn't function like this when you specifically select a Page to represent the blog.

http://www.mydomain.com/this-is-a-page/

http://www.mydomain.com/blog/
http://www.mydomain.com/blog/my-blog-post/
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  • what establishes a post as being part of the blog versus a post that isn't?
    – Milo
    Jun 22, 2012 at 16:41
  • well, 1) it's a post and 2) the fact that I have to select a specific page to represent the blog and it's posts should be reason enough to use that pages permalink for all blog posts...
    – dcolumbus
    Jun 22, 2012 at 16:44
  • ... That's the way WordPress is supposed to work if you use a specific page for the Blog and set up a different page as your Front Page. Is this how you have it set up? What permalink structure are you using?
    – EAMann
    Jun 22, 2012 at 16:50
  • Huh? I don't see the point of telling WP that the "blog" is on a certain page, yet the blog posts don't pull in the permalink from that page?
    – dcolumbus
    Jun 22, 2012 at 16:54
  • that's just the way it works. you can achieve what you're after via the permalink settings.
    – Milo
    Jun 22, 2012 at 17:07

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if your posts page is /blog/, then set your post permalinks to /blog/%postname%/

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  • Yes, but this would make the entire site display /blog/, no?
    – dcolumbus
    Jul 2, 2012 at 17:01
  • no, just posts. pages don't use posts permalink structure.
    – Milo
    Jul 2, 2012 at 17:11
  • Is there a way to target JUST the generic "post" type? I mean, what about custom post types? I don't want a custom post type to display with a permalink of "/blog/"
    – dcolumbus
    Aug 1, 2012 at 18:34
  • when you register post types, you have the option to set the 'with_front' argument of rewrite to false.
    – Milo
    Aug 1, 2012 at 19:30
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I've come to accept that this is just a limit of WordPress.

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