How do I prefix blog post urls as mysite.com/blog/%postname%/ but allow authors to still be located at mysite.com/authors/%nicename%?

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I’ve tried a bunch of things but cannot find a solution that works.

I want my site to have the structure:

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mysite.com/ = homepage
mysite.com/blogs/ = blog archive
mysite.com/blogs/year/ = blog archive (in a specific year)
mysite.com/blogs/year/month/ = blog archive (in a specific month)
mysite.com/blogs/year/month/postname = blog post
mysite.com/authors/ = authors archive
mysite.com/authors/nicename = author profile
mysite.com/customposttype/ = custom post type archive
mysite.com/customposttype/postname = custom post type post

Currently, with /blogs/%year%/%month%/%postname%/ set as the permalink structure, everything works correctly except the authors part. It forces it to mysite.com/blogs/authors/ and mysite.com/blogs/authors/nicename, which is not desireable, since most authors will be making custom post types and not blogs.

Some posts I checked here but without the right answer:

How to properly prefix blog post URL’s

Permalinks Question: Adding a prefix ONLY in front of the posts

Possible to change the URL for the regular post type without affecting the URL of other custom post types?

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  1. You can set the author base independently by manipulating the $wp_rewrite global:

    function wpa55976_author_base() {
    global $wp_rewrite;
    $wp_rewrite->author_base = 'authors';
    $wp_rewrite->author_structure = '/' . $wp_rewrite->author_base . '/%author%';

    // EDIT - rewrite rule to force author urls to resolve:
    add_rewrite_rule('authors/([^/]+)/?$', 'index.php?author_name=$matches[1]', 'top');

}
add_action( 'init', 'wpa55976_author_base' );

    Make sure to visit your permalinks page to flush rewrites after you add this.

    The one thing you won’t get is mysite.com/authors/ = authors archive, as WordPress doesn’t provide this page by default, though you may be able to create an authors page and use a custom template, or add a rewrite rule to handle it.