Different permalink structure for blog posts than pages in Wordpress?

Question

I'd like to have a different permalink structure for posts than for pages on a Wordpress website.

For example, a blog post name "This is a nice blog post" would get the permalink : /blog/this-is-a-nice-blog-post

where as a page called "Services Offered" would get the permalink : /services-offered

I know I should use the %postname% in the permalink structure, but how to add the prefix /blog/ to only those blog posts ?

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Under the permalink settings, you need to use a custom format. To do this, you'll need to take a look at the structure tags available for use. Those can be found here:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks

To do exactly what you're wanting, you'd want to use a format like this:

/%category%/%postname%/

Pages have no category, so the tag for categories gets ignored and only the post name tag gets used.

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