# Blog Posts Routing Issue

**URL:** <https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/blog-posts-routing-issue/49526>\
**Category:** Elements CMS\
**Created:** [August 7, 2025, 9:51am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/blog-posts-routing-issue/49526 "2025-08-07T09:51:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Pegasus](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/pegasus/32/25035_2.png) [@Pegasus](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/Pegasus)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2025, 9:51am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/blog-posts-routing-issue/49526/1 "2025-08-07T09:51:40Z")

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**What is the best way to get my blog posts in the right “form”?  
For simplicity, I’m using the built-in “Appleseed Daily” CMS template.**

With the current setting — Item Template // Page / Post — all blog posts are displayed like this:

 ![Bildschirmfoto 2025-08-07 um 11.35.11](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/realmacsoftware1/original/3X/4/9/4998337c3436549c8a96f4658a462053ff578605.jpeg)

```auto
www.mydomain.com/post/?item=read-me  
www.mydomain.com/post/?item=custom-components

```

But I want my blog posts to appear directly under the blog root, without a “/post/” folder.

So, under Collection // Item Template / Page, I set it to “Blog” — one level above.

 ![Bildschirmfoto 2025-08-07 um 11.39.42](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/realmacsoftware1/original/3X/f/5/f5cc094fa8674609da4f28d03d357dd4106a2afe.jpeg)

This almost works: in my blog overview, hovering over a post title shows the correct URL:

```auto
www.mydomain.com/?item=read-me  
www.mydomain.com/?item=custom-components

```

But when I click the URL, it doesn’t redirect to the blog post — it just stays on the blog overview page.

Is this still a “CMS beta” issue?

For “author” it works as expected:

```auto
www.mydomain.com/author/?item=bot

```

@dan btw the CMS sub-category does not work

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**Author:** ![ben](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/ben/32/28488_2.png) [@ben](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/ben)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2025, 10:19am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/blog-posts-routing-issue/49526/2 "2025-08-07T10:19:58Z")

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Hmmm, you might be able to do some htaccess magic to route things to the correct PHP file, but I think it’d be sensible to go with the following pages:

`/` - Homepage with post listing

`/post/{slug}` - Individual post page