Title: Permalinks and multisites
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Permalinks and multisites

 *  [burrowsja](https://wordpress.org/support/users/burrowsja/)
 * (@burrowsja)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-and-multisites/)
 * I want to add a multisite structure to my existing website and started reading
   some documentation today.
 * On permalinks it says it will add ‘/blog/’ to posts on the original blogsite.
   I’m wondering if this addition will only occur on posts going forward once the
   multisite is up and running, or if it actually places this into every other existing
   permalink on the blog.
 * Obviously, changing all the permalinks on the existing blog would ruin any internal
   links and references and be harmful if you have a blog that’s been running for
   over a year.
 * I just want to be sure any implementation doesn’t effect EXISTING blog entries
   and web structures just new ones?

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 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-and-multisites/#post-3209949)
 * > On permalinks it says it will add ‘/blog/’ to posts on the original blogsite.
 * Only if you pick SubFolders (i.e. domain.com/subsite)
 * It will impact all your links, past and present, and yeah, it’ll break your links.
   But you know, you can use .htaccess to correct that fairly easily.
 *  Thread Starter [burrowsja](https://wordpress.org/support/users/burrowsja/)
 * (@burrowsja)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-and-multisites/#post-3209971)
 * Thanks for the response – just to confirm as I was going to use subdomains rather
   than subfolders – if i use subdomains there’s no impact to permalinks?
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-and-multisites/#post-3209978)
 * Correct 🙂

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## Tags

 * [multisite](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/multisite/)
 * [permalink](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/permalink/)

 * In: [Networking WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite/)
 * 3 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-and-multisites/#post-3209978)
 * Status: not resolved

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