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Wordpress help

by IMstarter
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Having a couple of problems with wordpress at the moment with a blog I set up.

1) I have set up a blog but when I post the post goes to domain.com/post name instead of domain.com/blog/post name. How can I go about changing this?

2) I would like to put rel canonical on the posts. How do I do this? Also, would I need to do this for each post or it there a way that it does it automatically for the whole site?
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  • Profile picture of the author RobinInTexas
    Originally Posted by IMstarter View Post

    Having a couple of problems with wordpress at the moment with a blog I set up.

    1) I have set up a blog but when I post the post goes to /post name instead of domain.com/blog/post name. How can I go about changing this?
    It all depends on where you installed wordpress, if you installed in the domain root you will get what you are reporting

    2) I would like to put rel canonical on the posts. How do I do this? Also, would I need to do this for each post or it there a way that it does it automatically for the whole site?
    See this post for a plugin to do that Canonical Link Elements for WordPress WordPress plugin
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    • Profile picture of the author IMstarter
      Yes wordpress is on the root domain. does it make any difference that the posts go to domain.com/post_name rather than domain.com/blog/post_name both SEO wise and for usability?
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      • Profile picture of the author BillyW
        Originally Posted by IMstarter View Post

        Yes wordpress is on the root domain. does it make any difference that the posts go to domain.com/post_name rather than domain.com/blog/post_name both SEO wise and for usability?
        In my opinion I don't think it makes much of a difference either way. But I'm also not an SEO expert. As far as usability, if I visited your site I could care less whether it was /post_name vs. /blog/post_name. Once again, just my opinion.
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  • Profile picture of the author karlos1968
    you have try to do 2 or 3 things:

    1 - What I'd suggest is that you set up a new "page" called Blog and then set this as your posts page via Admin/Settings/Reading.

    2- go to settings / Writing

    and change your Default Post Category

    2 - go to settings / Permalinks

    and change the structure

    Good Luck
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    • Profile picture of the author RobinInTexas
      Originally Posted by karlos1968 View Post

      you have try to do 2 or 3 things:

      1 - What I'd suggest is that you set up a new "page" called Blog and then set this as your posts page via Admin/Settings/Reading.

      2- go to settings / Writing

      and change your Default Post Category

      2 - go to settings / Permalinks

      and change the structure

      Good Luck
      Why do you want him to change everything? There is no reason to have it be his-site.com/blog.

      If he follows your instructions, the site will not work
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      • Profile picture of the author karlos1968
        Hi Robin,

        What I understood was that IMStarter want his blog posts with this format:

        domain.com/blog/post name

        so, what I told him was to "try", not to use all at the same time.

        If he try what I suggest I'm sure he will can see the posts in the format he wants and the site will work for sure.
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  • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
    1. Wanting example.com/BLOG/postname URL - is a nonsense, unless you have a real, strong and logical reason why would you want it.

    2. SEO BS doesn't count as "reason". Plus, no seo discussions here - or everything gets deleted.

    3. Everybody should read the WP codex before coming here and asking questions. (And those trying to give advice, should do the same :p )
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  • Profile picture of the author curationsoft
    I think you can change that on the setting, try to check the permalink menu to see what suits for you.
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