Remove blog Slug From WordPress Multisite Permalinks

Updated February 22, 2017     3 Comments
Originally posted August 30, 2012

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This applies to WordPress multisite networks. I don’t really recommend doing this. If you do this on the main site of your network, you must make sure that none of your posts, categories, or tags have a slug equal to the slug of a subsite. That would cause a conflict.

But there are times when we have to do what we have to do. If you want to remove the ‘blog’ slug from your permalinks on a network site, do the following.

1. For the site in question, set permalinks to the default setting, like so:

  1. Go to Settings -> Permalinks -> Common Settings
  2. Choose ‘Default’
  3. Save

2. Then go the Network Admin -> Sites and set the permalink structure for the site in question, like so:

  1. Go to the Network Admin -> Sites ->
  2. On your main site (the root site), click ‘Edit’
  3. Go to Settings tab
  4. Scroll down to Permalink Structure
  5. Enter your desired permalink structure there.  For example:   “/%category%/%post_id%” without the quotes.

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  2. June 7th, 2013 at 5:14 am

    This trick works fine for posts and home page permalink.
    But now I am getting 404 error on category archive. While troubleshooting when I put /blog slug in between category archive, it works fine.
    I want to show permalink as sitename/category-name instead of sitename/blog/category-name

    What to do now?

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