Flat URL structure across my entire site, including the blog?

[futuresoup]

Is a completely flat URL structure possible?

I'm able to do it for pages, but what about with the blog feature enabled?

Is the /blog/ part of the URL required?

For example: mysite.com/blog-post-title instead of mysite.com/blog/blog-post-title?

My reasoning behind this is that I am perceiving a flat URL structure as the way to go for long term site planning to avoid any possibility of page redirections with subdirectory urls etc.

One potential downside is a messy root directory in the docs folder and a bunch of folders with index.html files in the site build.

I'm not sure if that's necessarily a bad thing, I can live with it, if it means my URLs are sustainable and I can avoid messy complicated redirects years from now...

[squidfunk]

In theory this should be possibly by just naming your .md files exactly as the slugs you like to have. For the blog plugin, you can change blog_dir and set it to ., which is effectively a standalone blog. Note that the posts directory must now be located directly in the docs_dir. We also have a blog article that walks you through the process of creating a standalone blog.