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• Started 4 years ago by TheSage
• Latest reply from willyhoops

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Hack to remove /forums/forum/

1. • 
   • TheSage
   • Member

   • Posted 4 years ago #

   Is there a way to remove the second "forum" from urls? I have setup my forum just like this one, mysite.com/forums/'forum'- seems unnecessary.

   Also is there a way to remove /topic/ from posts? It would be nice if everything was off the root like WP.
2. • 
   • _ck_
   • Moderator

   • Posted 4 years ago #

   If you did what you want to do,
   bbPress would have no way to tell if

   example.com/welcome-everyone

   was a sub-forum or a topic.

   In WP you need some way to determine if something is an archive view vs a post. ie. example.com/archives/monthly vs. example.com/monthly (which would be a post) It's the same logic with bbpress.

   However it might be possible someday to easily change /forum/ and /topic/ to something else. Removing them is impossible.

   If you move bbpress to your webroot, you will get rid of /forums/ but it cannot co-exist with bbpress in that way as you cannot have two index files (without super-integration which is ill advised).

   BackPress might solve this however someday.
3. • 
   • TheSage
   • Member

   • Posted 4 years ago #

   Thanks for the post...
4. • 
   • mrhoratio
   • Member

   • Posted 4 years ago #

   TheSage, there's a solution for your problem now at this thread:

   http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/nicer-slug-url-rewrite-plugin-done

   and someone's turned it into a plugin here:

   http://www.technospot.net/blogs/how-to-remove-forum-and-topic-keyword-from-bbpress-url/
5. • 
   • willyhoops
   • Member

   • Posted 4 years ago #

   I tried this and it has not gone. I downloaded .rar file at http://www.technospot.net/blogs/how-to-remove-forum-and-topic-keyword-from-bbpress-url/
   (thankfully winzip can open .rar files), and copied the two files ".htaccess" and "remft.php", and then run the plugin from admin but it made no difference. The first time I ran it I may have forgotton the .htaccess file. Any suggestions what now please?

   My forum is at http://www.willyhoops.com/bbpress

   Also, I am totally new to this but searching for "remove hot tags" got me nothing. Not sure why they have added that by default but obviously I have to remove it. Can anyone tell me how to do that please?

   Ahh gee, you can't delete a post. I think I have totally messed up. This pluging does not remove the forum it does something else.

   Man I have been done! The default install is hopless and there is no info on how to change anything. This is a pro product only but it did not give that impression at all. I though I would have a simple little forum like the one here and it would all be easy. Instead I lost two hours of my Saturday.

   "So let’s get started. Download, install, and you’re on your way!". Yea right

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