Having single posts appear under the blog homepage and highlight menu items properly?

Question

My Wordpress site which has a static frontpage and the blog page assigned to a subpage of a section. My blog's homepage is:

/be-the-first-to-care/first-to-care-blogs/

This works great for the blog page. However when I click through to a single post it breaks out of the hierarchy and appears just as

/blog-post/

The menus and submenus don't highlight properly etc.

Is there a good workaround for this? I'd like single posts to appear at:

/be-the-first-to-care/first-to-care-blogs/blog-post/

Basically I'd like my blog to be the root of any single blog post. Would like this to carry through for category pages etc.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

You can edit your permalinks like so:

/be-the-first-to-care/first-to-care-blogs/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/

I'm not sure why blog posts work like that, maybe somebody can give you further insight but the above works for me. You can edit your permalinks via:

Admin Panel -> Settings -> Permalinks

Then click the "Custom Structure" radio button and fill in the textbox with the above.