Title: Permalink structure
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Permalink structure

 *  [bign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bign/)
 * (@bign)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-structure-5/)
 * Hi,
    I have a custom template for my homepage. The menu in this template point
   to my blog. I am using the followin line `wp_list_categories('include=1&title_li
   =');`
 * Now this line gets to the blog without a problem, but the url is [http://www.blabla.com/category/blog/](http://www.blabla.com/category/blog/)
   
   What I am trying to achive is to have a url like this: [http://www.blabla.com/blog/](http://www.blabla.com/blog/)
   How can I do that? ….. By the way when I type directly [http://www.blabla.com/blog/](http://www.blabla.com/blog/)
   I am getting an 404 error.

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-structure-5/#post-1625481)
 * Switch to wp_list_pages, create & publish a blank Blog page and then use the 
   [Page Links To plugin](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/page-links-to/) to
   redirect it to the correct url.
 *  [Joe Ponzio](https://wordpress.org/support/users/new-nine-media/)
 * (@new-nine-media)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-structure-5/#post-1625485)
 * [WP No Category Base Plugin](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-no-category-base/)
   and [an article explaining how to use it](http://www.newnine.com/tutorials/29-remove-category-from-urls-in-wordpress).
 *  [Mark Ratledge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/songdogtech/)
 * (@songdogtech)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-structure-5/#post-1625528)
 * [@new](https://wordpress.org/support/users/new/) Nine: That plugin works well,
   but it’s bad manners at least (and against forums rules at worst) to link to 
   your own commercial site and articles. [http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome](http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome)
 *  [Joe Ponzio](https://wordpress.org/support/users/new-nine-media/)
 * (@new-nine-media)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-structure-5/#post-1625620)
 * Isn’t that precisely what you (and many others) are doing by having your name
   linked to your commercial website? Should I copy and paste my entire tutorial
   here when a link is much easier?
 * I understand the _spirit_ of a link policy (keeps sites and forums clean, though
   I couldn’t find anything in the rules prohibiting what I did here as I hardly
   spammed and just one of my 20 or so answers on this site have a link), but it’s
   a little nuts to say, “Go ahead and link to a helpful tutorial to answer a question…
   just don’t link to anything that you wrote or could possibly explain best to 
   the asker.”
 *  Thread Starter [bign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bign/)
 * (@bign)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-structure-5/#post-1625703)
 * Hi,
    thanks for your suggestions….. but, could I do it by code and not installing
   any plug-ins?
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-structure-5/#post-1625750)
 * > Isn’t that precisely what you (and many others) are doing by having your name
   > linked to your commercial website?
 * The linking is at the discretion of the forum administrators.

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 * Last reply from: [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-structure-5/#post-1625750)
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