Title: Custom post structure vs sub-folder
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Custom post structure vs sub-folder

 *  [Adam Arnold](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adam-arnold/)
 * (@adam-arnold)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-post-structure-vs-sub-folder/)
 * Hello all,
 * First of all, I hope this in the right place! My apologies if it isn’t.
 * I’m fairly new to WordPress & am trying to achieve something along the following
   lines:
 * website.com/ <— all pages go here —>
    website.com/blog/ <— all blog posts go 
   here —>
 * I have tried doing this by installing WordPress in a sub-folder and I can get
   the correct URL structure but some of the theme templates seem to go a bit funny.
 * I notice I can get the same effect by using permalinks -> custom structure “/
   blog/%postname%/”
 * This seems a bit too easy. Is there any reason why I shouldn’t be doing it this
   way? All my links etc seem to work just fine!
 * Thanks in advance,
 * Adam

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 *  [Oliver Farrell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oliverfarrell/)
 * (@oliverfarrell)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-post-structure-vs-sub-folder/#post-2808046)
 * You could create a category called ‘blog’ and then attach the category to all
   your blog posts. Then, from your permalinks settings change them to ‘/%category%/%
   postname%/’. That way only your blog posts will have the ‘blog’ slug before them.
 * Of course, this solution assumes you aren’t going to be using the categories 
   functionality for anything else.
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-post-structure-vs-sub-folder/#post-2808118)
 * > I notice I can get the same effect by using permalinks -> custom structure “/
   > blog/%postname%/”
 * No reason at all not to use that 🙂 Works fine.

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## Tags

 * ["blog" folder](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/blog-folder/)
 * [link structure](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/link-structure/)
 * [sub-folder](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/sub-folder/)

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 * Last activity: [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-post-structure-vs-sub-folder/#post-2808118)
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