title: Wordpress Blog Archive URL without Page
body: <p>The site has a few custom post types with Archive page enabled. So I get the following URL structure</p>
  
  <pre><code>http://example.com/offices/   This is the archive page for office
  http://example.com/office/san-fran   This is the single page for office
  http://example.com/office/new-york   This is the single page for office
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and</p>
  
  <pre><code>http://example.com/members/   This is the archive page for member
  http://example.com/member/john-smith   This is the single page for member
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Everything works great with CPT.</p>
  
  <p>BUT I'm trying to change the base path for the built-in post_type "post". I first updated the permalink settings to </p>
  
  <pre><code>/blog/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>which takes care of </p>
  
  <pre><code>http://example.com/blog/2017/10/post
  http://example.com/blog/2017/10/
  http://example.com/blog/2017/
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but </p>
  
  <pre><code>http://example.com/blog/
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>does not work. After some Googling, I created a blank page called "Blog" and set it as my "Posts page" in Setting -> Reading. That kinda works BUT wordpress doesn't seem to treat it as an archive page.</p>
  
  <p>When looking at the post_classes, office would have something like this</p>
  
  <pre><code>class="archive post-type-archive post-type-archive-office logged-in tribe-no-js sidebar-primary app-data index-data archive-data archive-office-data"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and blog would be like this</p>
  
  <pre><code>class="blog logged-in tribe-no-js app-data index-data home-data"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I thought about creating another CPT for blog but I'd much prefer to use the build-in post. Is there a way to create a real archive page for posts?</p>