Title: Multisite permalink issue
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Multisite permalink issue

 *  [bundleplan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bundleplan/)
 * (@bundleplan)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-permalink-issue/)
 * I had this issue before but did not think it was related to multisite or WP as
   I had switched my theme a few times.
    This time I installed a new install and
   have been doing everything as clean and perfect as possible and still come across
   the same error. I am using Custom Post Type themes and when my permalink structure
   is set, it is automatically shown below how it goes into the permalink structure
   in the database:
 * /blog/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/
 * However, I need it to show without the /blog/
 * So I took it out of my database and now shows as:
 * /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/
 * But I thought I would let the multisite team know and see maybe if anything has
   been seen with this before?
 * Thanks!

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 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-permalink-issue/#post-5659615)
 * That’s…. what you’re supposed to see.
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Before_You_Create_A_Network#Path-based](http://codex.wordpress.org/Before_You_Create_A_Network#Path-based)
 *  Thread Starter [bundleplan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bundleplan/)
 * (@bundleplan)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-permalink-issue/#post-5659648)
 * well it broke my category links, which has never happened to me in 2 years of
   installing the same program. Also had this happen about 2 months ago, but thought
   it was because I switched from 2014 to my theme back to 2014 back to my theme….
   because it did not happen until I did this before, this time it seems as if it
   has been this way from the start of install.
 * Any idea why it broke my category links in the past few months and not the past
   year before that? It’s very new to me at least.
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-permalink-issue/#post-5659755)
 * You may have had a plugin that removed the blog slug. Either way, I promise you,
   if you have a subFolder install of WP, you did too have that blog slug at one
   point in time and either removed it or had it removed by something.
 *  Thread Starter [bundleplan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bundleplan/)
 * (@bundleplan)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-permalink-issue/#post-5659768)
 * Yeah I had it but just for blog content, not for custom post types however. They
   show as their post type slugs, such as site.com/auction/title-goes-here or site.
   com/listings/title-here
 * Now they show as site.com/blog/auction/title or site.com/blog/listings/title
 * And again my custom post type category links did not work because of the bad 
   link, which has never happened to me
 *  Thread Starter [bundleplan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bundleplan/)
 * (@bundleplan)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-permalink-issue/#post-5659779)
 * This isn’t really resolved. Again for two years your program hasn’t done this
   and all the sudden it is doing this. Along with other things you tell me “have
   always been” they haven’t.
 * So this is totally unresolved by the support team.
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-permalink-issue/#post-5659780)
 * I’m sorry you feel that way, but having used Multisite since before the WPMU 
   merge, I can promise you that the blog slug is, has always been, and will for
   the forseable future, be hardcoded into the permalinks page for WordPress Multisite,
   when you are using SubFolders.
 * The fact that you had ‘something’ which changed that which no longer works is
   not something we can be expected to help you with. We can neither see your site,
   nor your plugins, nor know what you’ve done.
 * > And again my custom post type category links did not work because of the bad
   > link, which has never happened to me
 * IIRC you have a _theme_ putting those down. Perhaps you should ask them because`/
   blog/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/` is _not_ a CPT structure.
 * A proper CPT looks like this: `/CUSTOMPOSTTYPE/%postname%/`
 * If you have a CPT that is, somehow, forcing in YYYY/MM/DD into that, it’s probably
   the manner in which they did weird things that has subsequently broken.
 *  Thread Starter [bundleplan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bundleplan/)
 * (@bundleplan)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-permalink-issue/#post-5659786)
 * A proper CPT looks like this: /CUSTOMPOSTTYPE/%postname%/
 * That is what I’m saying, mine all the sudden is not, it has /blog/ added in front
   of it, and also, suddenly on a new install, my category links did not go to the
   categories because that had /blog/ in front of the slug folders
 * But never before? Always blog was for blog posts and CPT was without /blog/ in
   front of it
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-permalink-issue/#post-5659788)
 * You said your old CPT was `/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/` though. Is that
   not true?
 * Because that **also** is not what a CPT looks like.
 * Honestly, I think your theme was seriously messed up in how it created CPTs.
 *  Thread Starter [bundleplan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bundleplan/)
 * (@bundleplan)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-permalink-issue/#post-5659790)
 * That’s what showed in permalinks, yes. The theme hasn’t changed in like 8 months
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-permalink-issue/#post-5659799)
 * That doesn’t mean that the issue isn’t the theme. In fact, it’s possible your
   theme always had a bug and only newer versions of WP brought it out. That happens
   y’know.
 * No one else has reported weird permalink snafus like this with CPTs, so I really
   think the most logical issue here is your theme … sucks.
 *  [Jay](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jaymyers/)
 * (@jaymyers)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-permalink-issue/#post-5659823)
 * I have been banging my head against the wall, for what I believe the same issue.
   I am writing this to make sure I am clear and can move on…
 * the /blog added to the permalink structure only happens when the installation
   is installed on a subdirectory of the root, correct?
 * Because i have another fresh install in the root (public_html) but in that install
   I have subdomains set up.
 * My subdirectory install is only going to be used as a sandbox, but I was really
   hoping to get it as close as possible as my production install.
 * It’s not possible with WP 4.X to just get [http://domain.com/category/postname](http://domain.com/category/postname)
   on a sub folder install? But it is on a sub domain install in the root?
 * I have read post from back in the WP 3.X days where this ws an issues and there
   were work-arounds. But this appears to be some kind of fail-safe coded in…for
   what reason I am still not clear about. Just wish I would have found this thread
   much earlier….I think.
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-permalink-issue/#post-5659824)
 * > the /blog added to the permalink structure only happens when the installation
   > is installed on a subdirectory of the root, correct?
 * Correct.
 * > It’s not possible with WP 4.X to just get [http://domain.com/category/postname](http://domain.com/category/postname)
   > on a sub folder install? But it is on a sub domain install in the root?
 * Correct.
 * You CAN force it in the site settings, of course, but it would be better to just
   make your dev site use subdomains instead. If you need help with THAT, please
   make a new topic for yourself 🙂

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 * Last reply from: [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-permalink-issue/#post-5659824)
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