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The structure for URLs in the CMS within Webflow is built with the collections in mind. When you create a collection of categories you are using this specifically as a reference field for your actual blog posts.
The blog-category/category-name is not the one you should be focusing on. The site.com/blog/post-name is the one you should focus your attention to.
Have you created your blog post collection yet? Linked your categories to this collection?
However, what I’m trying to achieve is to get a my “guide” blog category to format as mentioned in the original post, which it currently does not. As you can see from the example above, once you click guide you end up at (don’t mind the page not found haven’t designed it yet):
I see - so I’d apply the canonical address to a page that I setup myself, per category with the slug of my choosing and then apply the canonical (soft redirect) on the auto generated one for SEO. ’
So, whatever url we are pushing in canonical with the category name in this case. Will redirects be needed since, we are telling google that url structure with category exists but in reality it doesn’t.