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

Sample:
Page http://themescommunity.com/faqs/
Forum http://themescommunity.com/ forums/forum/faqs/ -> I don't have faqs forum this is just a sample. See the "/forums/forum/" that make different url.

Buy you saying that your http://www.domain.com/gaming/ redirected to http://www.domain.com/forums/forum/gaming/

Can you provide more details about it, real url maybe. Does it related to your wp permalinks setup?

If my question is not clear, please let me know.
I'm running the latest version of both WordPress and bbPress (3.3.1 & 2.0.2).

I've tried to search the forum, but i couldn't find a similar question. I'm sorry if this is a double post anyway.

At the moment i'm having a website that runs WordPress with a mingle forum. I'm no longer happy with this forum, so my decision was to make use of bbPress and I'm checking this out now.

The problem i run into, is that i cannot have the same slug for pages, as I use for forums. Let's say the slug i want to use is called 'gaming'. The permalink displayed here is http://www.domain.com/forums/forum/gaming/. Now i want to add a page to WordPress about gaming. In this case it will rename the slug to gaming-2, as if the slug was already used by another page.

When i enter the URL http://www.domain.com/gaming/ it does redirect me to http://www.domain.com/forums/forum/gaming/. But I want the WordPress page to show up on the first URL and this specific forum only on the later.

I tried to look some further and found out both WP pages as BBP forums were saved in the 'wp_posts' table. Editing the 'post_name' column here solves my problem, but it would be nice if other administrators, without database permissions could get this done too.

I hope I just miss something obvious here, would be great if someone can help me out!

Cheers,

Hedgehog

The Code

We're attempting to simply output the basename of the permalink and use that in an IF/ELSE statement using the following to generate:


<?php

?>


The Problem

For the purpose of this post, we'll say that we have bbPress set to http://site.ext/community/. We need to grab 'community' from the URL, which is what the code above 'should' do, but doesn't. Instead, it's grabbing the basename for the last forum we created and continues to update as we create new forums/categories.

To get the basename, we've simply echo'ed out $gettheslug in the header. This works for all other areas of the website, except with the bbPress portion which is what's so confusing :).

Perhaps we're doing something wrong, perhaps I'm doing something wrong. As above, any help is much appreciated.

Just like on this site: http://bbpress.org/forums/ displays all of the forums available. On my website the URL http://www.mysite.com/forums/ just throws a 404 and I don't know 'where' that page is...?

Many thanks for your help in advance,

Paul

@stereopoly , does your forum work correctly with the existence of htaccess file in the forum folder ?

But something is wrong because the pages cannot be found. This is my rewrite code (it is a bit different from your code because I am using the newest version of bbpress):

# BEGIN bbPress

Options -MultiViews

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /forum/

Options +FollowSymlinks

RewriteRule ^page/([0-9]+)/?$ /index.php?page=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^forum/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ forum.php?id=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^forum/([^/]+)/?$ /forum.php?id=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^forum/?$ [R=302,L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^topic/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ /topic.php?id=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^topic/([^/]+)/?$ /topic.php?id=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^topic/?$ /forum/ [R=302,L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^tags/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ tags.php?tag=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^tags/([^/]+)/?$ tags.php?tag=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^tags/?$ tags.php [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^profile/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ profile.php?id=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^profile/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ profile.php?id=$1&tab=$2 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^profile/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ profile.php?id=$1&tab=$2&page=$3 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^profile/([^/]+)/?$ profile.php?id=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^profile/?$ profile.php [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^view/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ view.php?view=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^view/([^/]+)/?$ view.php?view=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^rss/?$ rss.php [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/topics/?$ rss.php?topics=1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/forum/([^/]+)/?$ rss.php?forum=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/forum/([^/]+)/topics/?$ rss.php?forum=$1&topics=1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/topic/([^/]+)/?$ rss.php?topic=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/tags/([^/]+)/?$ rss.php?tag=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/tags/([^/]+)/topics/?$ /forum/rss.php?tag=$1&topics=1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/profile/([^/]+)/?$ rss.php?profile=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/view/([^/]+)/?$ /forum/rss.php?view=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^.*$ /forum/index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END bbPress

Probably I made something wrong with point four where you say that the lines 46 and 48 have to be switched. What do I actually have do do there?

Quote: "4. Open up bb-post.php at the root of your bbPress install and simply switch lines number 46 and 48"

Is it this code?
$link = get_post_link($post_id);

$topic = get_topic( $topic_id, false );

http://blog.markroberthenderson.com/getting-rid-of-forums-and-topic-from-bbpress-permalinks-updated-plugin/

Any updates?

Forum:
http://www.callofduty.se/forum/

RewriteBase
  from
RewriteBase /
  to
RewriteBase /forum/

where forum is the name of your subfolder.

Options -MultiViews

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^pm/?(.*)$ /my-plugins/bbpm/index.php? [L]
RewriteRule ^page/([0-9]+)/?$ /index.php?page= [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^forum/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ /forum.php?id=&page= [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^forum/([^/]+)/?$ /forum.php?id= [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^forum/?$ / [R=302,L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^topic/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ /topic.php?id=&page= [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^topic/([^/]+)/?$ /topic.php?id= [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^topic/?$ / [R=302,L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^tags/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ /tags.php?tag=&page= [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^tags/([^/]+)/?$ /tags.php?tag= [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^tags/?$ /tags.php [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^profile/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ /profile.php?id=&page= [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^profile/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ /profile.php?id=&tab= [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^profile/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ /profile.php?id=&tab=&page= [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^profile/([^/]+)/?$ /profile.php?id= [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^profile/?$ /profile.php [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^view/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ /view.php?view=&page= [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^view/([^/]+)/?$ /view.php?view= [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/?$ /rss.php [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/topics/?$ /rss.php?topics=1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/forum/([^/]+)/?$ /rss.php?forum= [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/forum/([^/]+)/topics/?$ /rss.php?forum=&topics=1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/topic/([^/]+)/?$ /rss.php?topic= [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/tags/([^/]+)/?$ /rss.php?tag= [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/tags/([^/]+)/topics/?$ /rss.php?tag=&topics=1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/profile/([^/]+)/?$ /rss.php?profile= [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/view/([^/]+)/?$ /rss.php?view= [L,QSA]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^.*$ /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

I have no idea what any of it does!

I had this a few weeks ago with another forum, and setting the URI in the DB fixed it. I may just drop the DB and run the installer to sort it out, as there's nothing much there yet anyway.

As for the word "slugs", I'm pretty sure it comes from typesetting. :-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slug_(typesetting)