Using permalinks, category slugs, and tag slugs

I was messing with my permalinks today for the same reason. And i ended up with a solution that worked great.

You have to change your custom permalink structure to:

/%category%/%postname%/

In the category base field just put a period mark:

.

and your permalinks will display in this form:

CATEGORY PAGE
mysite.com/blog/category-name/

POST PAGE
mysite.com/blog/category-name/post-name/

I don’t think it works for tags pages though. I tried putting “.” in the tag base field the permalink is correct like:

TAG PAGE
mysite.com/blog/tag-name/

but the page returns error 404. So i guess it doesn’t see the page without the default “tag” tag base.