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Asked: 2026-06-04T07:20:54+00:00

I’m working on migrating a static site to a new one based on WordPress

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I’m working on migrating a static site to a new one based on WordPress as a work platform.
The old site contains static html pages and a separate folder for the blog.
As a result I get the following URLs http://www.mysite.com / blog / category-name / post-number-one.
On the new site, WordPress turns the URL into http://www.mysite.com / category-name / post-number-one, removing the blog/ part.

For the sake of SEO, I must keep these urls like the old site. Is there a way using WordPress to maintain this structure for blog posts only?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Yes, in the WordPress admin, go to the Settings Tab, then the Permalinks menu. There will be a section called “Category base”. Add “blog” there.

    That should make it so the blog the categories are prefixed with /blog/category-name/post-number-one.

    I had a similar issue. Basically I was running two WordPress installations. One for pages and one for blog. Long story behind that.

    But I eventually I needed to merge the WP installations.

    In my case I also needed to go to Settings -> Reading and set the Posts page to “Blog”, which was an empty page I named Blog also. This made it so the blog would be viewed at http://mydomain/blog/. I’m not sure if you wanted that too.

    But yeah for the categories, you just need to add “Category base” under the permalinks setting.

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