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Jan David Hanrath on "constructing a paged url"

Jan David Hanrath — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:17:47 +0000

Anyone with an idea?

Jan David Hanrath on "constructing a paged url"

Jan David Hanrath — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:32:13 +0000

Hi,

We – http://www.onemorething.nl – are integrating our forum – http://www.onemorething.nl/community – with an external search engine, that builds an index directly from our database. We run into a problem if we want to link directly to a post on page x that have been retrieved by the search engine. We can only link to the first page from a topic.

Is there a method stored in de bbpress-code that we can use to construct the proper paged url?

sample from a huge topic on our forum:

http://www.onemorething.nl/community/topic/mijn-ontdekkingen-van-vandaag/page/3148#post-2361033
What we want to retrieve/create: /page/3148

Our recent-post list does something familiar, but how?
We are running BBpress version 1.0.2

Ebenue on "How to get a Shorter, More SEO friendly URL structure in bbpress 2 ?"

Ebenue — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 07:44:28 +0000

Can it be modified using htaccess? I still want more shorten url.

spabav on "How to get a Shorter, More SEO friendly URL structure in bbpress 2 ?"

spabav — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 02:25:45 +0000

Thanks Hard Seat Sleeper for updating me.

I really glad that I dont need to worry anymore about those extra sub slugs.

Thanks for clarifying.

Hard Seat Sleeper on "How to get a Shorter, More SEO friendly URL structure in bbpress 2 ?"

Hard Seat Sleeper — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 22:54:45 +0000

The shorter URL might look better to you, but according to Google it has no difference in search rankings:

Did Matt tell you this directly?

spabav on "How to get a Shorter, More SEO friendly URL structure in bbpress 2 ?"

spabav — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 09:26:41 +0000

Erlend,
Thanks for your comment.

Yes, It does have an effect to be one category deeper (at least according to Matt Cutts from Google).

So, yes please, I want to generate the URL's without any additional sub-category... and Yes, I would not mind if i had something like ../forums/general generated.

Would be great if you could tell me how to take this extra subdirectory layer off in bbpress ?

Erlend on "How to get a Shorter, More SEO friendly URL structure in bbpress 2 ?"

Erlend — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 23:23:25 +0000

For what it's worth, removing "topic" should have no effect on SEO.

If you have a "General" forum, i.e. at /forums/general , wouldn't you rather avoid the confusion if a user starts a thread called "general"? I actually don't know what would happen in this scenario...

spabav on "How to get a Shorter, More SEO friendly URL structure in bbpress 2 ?"

spabav — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 18:56:27 +0000

After a standard installation of the bbPress 2 plugin, I am getting this kind of URL for my forum posts:

http://mywebsite.com/forums/topic/this-is-the-name-of-the-forum-post

For SEO purposes I would like to shorten the URL to this:

http://mywebsite.com/forums/this-is-the-name-of-the-forum-post

I tried to the content of the field "Topic slug" , but it keeps on returning, whenever I save the settings.

How can I shorten the URL structure of all posts?

atlieku surinkimas on "robots.txt help"

atlieku surinkimas — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 07:44:42 +0000

Yes, you can leave only:

User-agent: *
Disallow:

Then it should work just fine.

InterMike on "Latests Topics set to homepage, URL "/page/2" inteferes with WP's URLs...."

InterMike — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 15:21:31 +0000

Not sure if this belongs here or in Trac, or both, so I guess I'll stick it in both :)

I used the Latest Topics short code on a new page ("Latest Rants") and I set that page as my homepage (via Settings > Reading), but now, if I, for example, click on page 2 of Latest Rants (which is pointing to site.com/page/2), it redirects me to the blog posts URL site.com/2011/08/14/21/.

I've tried refreshing permalinks, but that didn't work :( Any help would be greatly appreciated! As it's rendering my homepage a little unuseful at the moment.

Voayge on "robots.txt help"

Voayge — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 10:25:58 +0000

Do I need to remove "Disallow" from robots file then? How should this file look after I updated my pages with this code <meta name=”robots” content=“noindex, follow”/>?

Amber 11 on "robots.txt help"

Amber 11 — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 17:14:32 +0000

There is one new method, which is mostly used for SEO:

You should put this to all the pages you don't want to get to SE's index.

Your pages won't be indexed, but still will pass link juice.

Greitas kreditas on "robots.txt help"

Greitas kreditas — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 13:13:59 +0000

Hey,
it should look something like this:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /user-name/
Disallow: /search/

Anointed on "bbpress has broken my wordpress URLs"

Anointed — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 19:36:09 +0000

Try this:

Go into the wp-admin, then under the settings button is a link called permalinks. Go there and click save changes. (Even though you have not made changes to your permalinks, it is worth trying as many times this gets things back to normal when you add new post-types etc)

Paulzxz on "bbpress has broken my wordpress URLs"

Paulzxz — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 20:33:08 +0000

With bbpress installed, my WordPress permalinks now throw 404 errors!

What is that all about?!

How do I overcome this?

Surely this is a very basic requirment of such a plugin!?

Any idea?

Paul

Paulzxz on "How to use the 'Forum' page"

Paulzxz — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 20:08:32 +0000

I would like my bbpress forums to sit on the URL: http://www.mysite.com/forum/

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

foochuck on "Add Blank Target to Website Links"

foochuck — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 12:26:03 +0000

Bump!

foochuck on "Add Blank Target to Website Links"

foochuck — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 22:38:01 +0000

Hello!

Is there a way that I can add target="_blank" to all website links that are inputted on forum posts?

Is this an option or will this need to be hard coded?

Thanks!

memnunfor on "robots.txt help"

memnunfor — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 21:58:41 +0000

i want to disallow the ''search'' and the ''user name'' urls,what should i write in robots.txt?

Thanks.

extremejacob on "uri override in bb-config.php locks url in general-settings"

extremejacob — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 00:27:00 +0000

Thanks!!!

That fixed it. Easy to do, even though I never used phpmyadmin before.

zaerl on "uri override in bb-config.php locks url in general-settings"

zaerl — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 00:16:24 +0000

It writes the option in the database. Open phpmyadmin. Locate the meta table (usually bb_meta.) Change the bb_option called uri to whatever you want.

extremejacob on "uri override in bb-config.php locks url in general-settings"

extremejacob — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 23:46:35 +0000

I typed in the wrong url in general-settings and was unable to get back to change it.

I have been able to recover and get back into admin by inserting (in bb-config.php)

$bb->uri = 'http://website.com/';

However, now the url in general-settings can't be changed (it shows a lock), presumably because of the hard override in bb-config.php.

I seem to be stuck in a catch-22. If I remove the override, I can't change the admin/general-settings. If I don't have the override, I can't access the admin/general-settings.

Any ideas?

Can I change the url directly? I presume admin/general-settings writes the configuration to a file somewhere? Can I edit that manually instead?

justkeepblogging on "How do I choose the URL name of the bbpress forum?"

justkeepblogging — Tue, 11 May 2010 12:45:11 +0000

@zaerl

Thanks again for your help.

I am fairly familiar with transferring files, but I guess this is beyond me. I looked over the install instructions again I couldn't find anything relating to this.

I think I'll just leave the URL as domain.com/bbpress. This isn't for a business so no one will care what it says!

I may try the name change again before I make the board public! Why not make it even more complicated for myself? :-)

zaerl on "How do I choose the URL name of the bbpress forum?"

zaerl — Tue, 11 May 2010 10:02:30 +0000

"If I did install it and deleted the final, does that make it a fresh install or not?"
Once you have installed bbPress for the first time it creates several SQL tables.

"And if I unzip the file do I need to zip it again?"
No. A zip file is just a container of files.

"Because when I try to upload the folder it will only let me upload by the file."
I don't understand.

"Even if I uploaded and deleted, does bbpress think it's still on my blog and do I need to use the second install method?"
If you have installed bbPress and you have deleted the folder bbPress is gone. Only the SQL tables remain. If need to erase them with phpmyadmin.

Maybe you should hire someone to do the work for you. bbPress is very simple to install but it requires some basic understanding of file handling and FTP.

justkeepblogging on "How do I choose the URL name of the bbpress forum?"

justkeepblogging — Tue, 11 May 2010 03:19:18 +0000

Thanks for your help. I've been trying different things. I'm a techno idiot, so have some stupid questions:

@zaerl

If I did install it and deleted the final, does that make it a fresh install or not? And if I unzip the file do I need to zip it again? Because when I try to upload the folder it will only let me upload by the file.

Even if I uploaded and deleted, does bbpress think it's still on my blog and do I need to use the second install method?

Thanks!

zaerl on "How do I choose the URL name of the bbpress forum?"

zaerl — Mon, 10 May 2010 09:54:54 +0000

If it's a fresh install do this:

1) Unzip the bbPress zip file
2) Change the newly created folder name from "bbpress" to "community"
3) Browse to /community and install bbPress

Keep in mind that if you have already installed bbPress on /bbpress you can't simply rename the folder. If you want to rename it follow these steps:

1) Go to bb-admin/options-general.php and change the bbPress URL to the new one
2) If you have custom permalinks open the .htaccess file (on the forum root folder) and change the RewriteBase directive to RewriteBase /community/
3) Rename the folder

justkeepblogging on "How do I choose the URL name of the bbpress forum?"

justkeepblogging — Mon, 10 May 2010 04:27:46 +0000

Thanks for your help.

I'm not quite sure which folder you mean. Do you mean the one in my directory? I created one called community and when I uploaded the bbpress files into it, the URL didn't work. I got the Index page of the directories.

Should I rename the zip file as well? I did this and am not sure if it's what I should be doing.

gerikg on "How do I choose the URL name of the bbpress forum?"

gerikg — Mon, 10 May 2010 03:48:31 +0000

if you have domain.com/bbpress means the folder is named "bbpress" you should rename the folder to your choosing. Then install.

justkeepblogging on "How do I choose the URL name of the bbpress forum?"

justkeepblogging — Mon, 10 May 2010 03:44:35 +0000

Hello,

I'm probably missing something obvious, but I can't set up bbpress to have an URL I choose. I'm able to install it with the address domain.com/bbpress, but I want it to be something personalized.

I've searched the forums and tried changing the name fo the zip file, but I can't figure it out.

Thanks for any help you can offer.

chrishajer on "nicer slug url rewrite plugin (done!)"

chrishajer — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 23:44:46 +0000

see http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/name-based-permalinks-without-page-and-forums