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.
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
