It's recommended that you keep the "Single Slugs" enabled, since it's what differentiate between a topic, tag, reply & user. Just change it to something different.

And I've run into a problem - the default permalink structure for the BBpress plugin is really bizarre. It adds a "forums" slug for the forums area, which is fine and to be expected, but then it also insists on adding an additional "forum" slug before the name of each forum, so that instead of a normal URL like example.com/forums/announcements, you get example.com/forums/forum/announcements, which looks weird and awkward. I tried just removing the forum slug, but that left a double slash in the URL, which my web browser then reduced to a single slash, resulting in a 404 error.

And for posts within forums, instead of the sort of URL you would normally expect - i.e. for a post in the announcements forum, something like example.com/forums/announcements/welcome, or example.com/forums/announcements/12345 or whatever, you have example.com/forums/topic/welcome - there doesn't appear to be any way to associate the posts with the actual forum they're in.

Is there any way to fix this? Obviously the "forums/forum" thing is the most important - having the completely useless "topic" slug in the post URLs is annoying and pointless, but the "forums/forum" thing makes it look like I was drunk when I set the forums up or something - I really can't let it go live with a glitch like that in the URLs. But I'd like to fix the topic issue too if possible. Any ideas?

Why is the forum base page different from the templated forum index page I have created?

My Forum index page works great. But in order for it to show it must have a different slug to the forum base set in the bbpress options.

This is where things seem to be wrong - when I view my forum index i get the slug home->forums->forum-index (with forum-index being the slug of my template page)

Surely this is very wrong, the index age should be the forum root surely? after all it is an index?

Secondly, I cannot work out which template file is used for this mysterious "forums" base page. It's basically a list of h2 titles with the names of all the forums in, where does it come from?

Here are links so you can see for yourself:

my index page:
http://lazybricks.blueleafstudio.net/forum-index/

the forum base page:
http://lazybricks.blueleafstudio.net/forums/

Try clicking the root link in the breadcrumbs (the one next to home), it switches between the two! Odd behaviour indeed.

I only want the forum index to show, that should be the 'root' or 'base' of the forums. However if i give my index page the same slug as the forum base (i.e. forums) then i get the page i don't want, not the pretty templated one.

I have been stuck on this one thing for a whole day after creating a lovely index page and I don't want to be stopped by this!

If anyone can help it would be very much appreciated,

Thanks in advance

You´re right, that´s pretty deep in the core. Though from a SEO perspective it´s also a nightmare to start a project with URLs you have to rewrite later ;) - Let me know if I can contribute in this special case, the project itsels made huge steps forward - thanks for your work.

The BuddyPress permalink structure is hardcoded to look for specific criteria in specific positions. It doesn't really scale well, and we're going to change it in future versions to use proper rewrite rules, but until then it would be a huge nightmare to change; even then, your changes would end up broken when we make improvements to the API.

The rewrite rules themselves get created in register_post_type() in /wp-includes/post.php. Lots of complex logic in there, and I doubt there are many better examples on how to write your own rewrite rules completely from scratch than inside that function.

I´m running a wordpress/buddypess/bbpress combination and I also need to change the permalink structure, in a bit different way then eleram - I´m looking for a more logic structure in all forums: example.com/forum/name-of-forum/name-of-post/

-> replace slug "forum" by name of forum
-> replace "topic" by name of topic

I can customize the code, but I´m not sure where to look on.

@John: "WordPress handles the rewrite rules for bbPress's content types" -> where do I have to look for (bbpress´ custom post types) to adjust the permalink logic?

Of course I will share my customization as soon a sfinished.

Thanks!

http://127.0.0.1/wp/ %Topic_slug% /%topic_name%

to :

http://127.0.0.1/wp/ %Topic_slug% / %topic_ID%

Example:

h ttp://127.0.0.1/wp/topic/test-topic

to

h ttp://127.0.0.1/wp/topic/1234

I am having the same problem:

I am running bbpress 2.0.2 under BuddyPress and although my permalinks are nice and pretty :

[code]/%category%/%postname%/[/code]

The permalink used in the breadcrumbs is this:

http://www.foodiesplace.com/?attachment_id=431
(no idea where it got this from since the page does not exist)

The breadcrumb link should look like this:

http://www.foodiesplace.com/en/facecook-forum/

Any ideas anybody?

Thanx

Should be able to fix that by going to Settings > Permalinks and changing the setting there.

example.com > forum > topic

Now to get to the forum, we're using example.com/forum -- so it's all seo and good and whatnot, but when you click on the "forum" breadcrumb it's going to example.com/page_id=7 --- how do I change it so it goes to /forum?

Thoughts?

Every time one view's a forum category and then chooses a forum from that category, it automatically takes them to a forum under a different category.

For instance, if I view...

Forums, North East, Country Durham, the breadcrumb trails shows that's where I am, but when I click on the "schools" forum the breadcrumb trail changes to show I am in the schools forum but under a different category - and it's always South West, Devon!!!

Why do all my forums default back to South West, Devon ??!!

When they were created, I chose the correct hierarchy and can view this is still correct from the Forum, All Forums in the dashboard.

You can see the issues here... http://lifeafterlondon.com/?page_id=973

I would really appreciate someones help with this - THANK YOU.

I want to contribute ukrainian translation. But I don't see ukrainian language at http://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/plugin, and there is no possibility to add it.

How to add Ukrainian to the list of translations?

I would like to have the same effect happen for the bb-press plugin when someone accesses http://website.com/forums

How can I set this up?

I figured that you'd be able to override default bbpress pages with custom pages containing shortcodes and changes to the permalink structure.

I haven't been able to achieve this and I'm struggling to find information on the logic behind all this.