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I need any posts of any category (and archive pages) to route through /blog/. I added "blog" to my category base, but now both website.com/blog/my-category/ AND website.com/my-category/ both display the same content. Single posts redirect to website.com/my-category/my-post-name

I have Yoast installed, have gone back and forth trying their "remove category base" option, and nothing is working. It's deactivated now while I figure this out.

Any idea how to force category, archive, and single post pages to use the category base?

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I found a solution here: 404 on category.php pagination

So, to fix my issue I just needed to add these custom rewrite rules to functions.php:

add_action( 'init', 'wpa58471_category_base' );
function wpa58471_category_base() {
    add_rewrite_rule(
        'blog/([^/]+)/page/(\d+)/?$',
        'index.php?category_name=$matches[1]&paged=$matches[2]',
        'top' 
    );
    add_rewrite_rule( 
        'blog/([^/]+)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$',
        'index.php?category_name=$matches[1]&feed=$matches[2]', 
        'top' 
    );
}

Now, all blog pages work, including main blog page, archives, categories, and single posts, using the permalink custom structure of /blog/%category/%postname%

**ALSO, if using Yoast, make sure you "Keep" the category base (this is the default under advanced->permalinks)

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