Title: Change the Permalink structure?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Change the Permalink structure?

 *  [Odenberg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/murmelin/)
 * (@murmelin)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-the-permalink-structure/)
 * I have a problem with my Permalinks. I have set the structure to ‘postname’ in
   the settings. And it works good for most part of my page. The permalinks the 
   are like this : “www.domaine.se/post-name”. Its perfect for my static pages, 
   but in the blog I would like the permalink to look like this: “www.domaine.se/
   blog/post-name” instead.
 * How do I accomplish this?

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 *  [Doodlebee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doodlebee/)
 * (@doodlebee)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-the-permalink-structure/#post-1884192)
 * First off, you should *never* use %postname% as your permalink settings. [All kinds of bad.](http://ottopress.com/2010/category-in-permalinks-considered-harmful/)
 * Second, sounds like you want to use %category%/%postname – which is also all 
   kinds of bad.
 * Instead, you wan to use a permalink setting that startes with a number, like /%
   year%/%category%/%postname or something along those lines.
 *  Thread Starter [Odenberg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/murmelin/)
 * (@murmelin)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-the-permalink-structure/#post-1884211)
 * Thanks for your answer.
    Since I will not have any categories and year has no
   relevance in this case, it seems very unnecessary to have it in the permalink.
   What Im acutally asking for is how to get /blog/ between my url and the postname
   in the permalink.
 *  [Doodlebee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doodlebee/)
 * (@doodlebee)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-the-permalink-structure/#post-1884362)
 * You want it to say “blog” but you will use absolutely no categories at all? Is
   the site consisting only of Pages, with no posts? If you’re writing posts, you*
   are* using categories – the default is “uncategorized.”
 * The default category is “uncategorized.” And you don’t have to stick with “year”
   that was only a suggestion. If you read that post, it’ll give you some good suggestions.
 * If you want the category name to show, you can change the “Uncategorized” to “
   blog”, and put “blog” in the category base. But I’d read the post I linked to
   for safe suggestions on the best permalink to use.
 *  Thread Starter [Odenberg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/murmelin/)
 * (@murmelin)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-the-permalink-structure/#post-1884370)
 * Thank you for your answer!
 * I have read the article you posted, and Im aware of the problem. For this site
   that Im doing, I do not see how it can be a problem. It will only have 5 static-
   pages and one “News section” with at the most 5 posts. Any posts that has “expired”
   will get deleted. There will be no archive. Since this page will have so few 
   posts, I dont want to categorize them and I would prefer to not have “uncategorized”
   in the permalink.
 * The word ‘blog’ was just an example, the site is in swedish so I will not use
   the word ‘blog’. It wount be a blog either, Im just using the ‘blog-format’ to
   present information that will be changed during time.
 * Maybe in the future I will be adding 2 categories and extend the “blog” to 10
   posts. If I do, I want to have the page name (blog, news or what ever) after 
   the url, but before categories/postname.
    How do I do that?
 *  [Doodlebee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doodlebee/)
 * (@doodlebee)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-the-permalink-structure/#post-1884373)
 * >  I do not see how it can be a problem
 * I suppose for such am small site, it wouldn’t be a problem. but as more stuff
   is added, it can eventually become one. I guess I’m thinking of “future-proofing”(
   which I always do) because there may come a time when you’ll want to utilize 
   the site more – and handling that type of thing *now* would be effortless, comparing
   to the mass 301’s you’d have to put in place later on.
 * >  Since this page will have so few posts, I dont want to categorize them and
   > I would prefer to not have “uncategorized” in the permalink.
 * But again, *because* you will be using posts, you *will* be categorized. The 
   default is “Uncategorized.” if you want a different word to show up, then rename
   the category. Then just use the %category%/%postname as the custom permalink.(
   again, adding %year% or %hour% or %postID% would be better in front of that, 
   and it really doesn’t do anything to SEO)
 * If you add “blog” as the beginning category thing in your settings, then all 
   your posts will show up as “sitename/blog/uncategorized/postname” so to get rid
   of the “uncategorized” just rename it.
 *  Thread Starter [Odenberg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/murmelin/)
 * (@murmelin)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-the-permalink-structure/#post-1884375)
 * Ok. I try again.
 * If a have a permalink that consisit of [http://www.domain.se/year/category/post-name](http://www.domain.se/year/category/post-name),
   how do get it like [http://www.domain.se/blog/year/category/post-name?](http://www.domain.se/blog/year/category/post-name?)
 * I want the other pages to be [http://www.domain.se/page-name](http://www.domain.se/page-name).

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