How to change path for default WordPress blog posts?

Question

My site has a few custom post types each with their own base slugs (e.g. /workouts/, /trainers/, etc). I would like to give the default WordPress blog posts their own base slug (e.g. /blog/) without affecting the base slug of the other custom post types.

Whenever I change the permalink structure in Settings->Permalinks to "/blog/%postname%" it affects all posts, so my other paths become "/blog/workouts/", "/blog/trainers/", etc.

Is there a way to move only the base slug for the default WordPress blog posts? So I would have the archive on /blog/ and the posts like /blog/some-post-title/

Is the only way to create yet another custom post type?

Answer 1

For this, you need to alter the way you register your custom post type to not use the "front" of your URL structure (like "blog") for the URLs of that custom post type. You need to add this to your arguments array for the register_post_type() call:

'rewrite' => array(
     'with_front' => false,
),