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Respecftully, you’re very wrong.
SEO in no way shape or form is affected by having the same Post title on a forum (note it’s not the title of the page).
Search Engines are smart enough to differentiate between pages on a website if they have different URLS.
You’ve made the same very wrong assumption the original poster had, that by having a post with the same title, that the post title is not checked and given a unique URL. Don’t get me wrong, it’s only been that way for 3 years here on bbPress…
But. I am astonished that there is no checking in bbPress to see if a topic already exists in a forum before allowing a topic with exactly the same title to be created.
Um, there is.
Surely this is an important feature and should be handled by bb_new_topic() if only through an optional arg.
I generally find that people who use the word “surely” have decided something, and think everyone should agree
And the function you reffer to is pluggable, so you can overwrite it to do what you want.Given that you’re the first person on this forum in the 3 years I’ve been here to request this feature, or worse, assume it’s already there (even though WordPress/BackPress/every-other-automattic-product handles it the same way as bbPress does); maybe just maybe you should not make so many assumptions.
Thats not me having a go, its just that you’re opnly going to be disappointed
However, in some forums (especially one of the forums on the site I am building I do not want users repeating the same topic and would want them to add to the topic that has already been started.
And here we hit 2 issues:
1) Waaaaaaah. I’ve decided that bbPress should work in the same way as other forums, even though it clearly doesn’t, say it doesn’t, and is far from bloated or as feature rich as these other un-named forums.
Btw Can i ask what other forums have this feature? (i’m not doubting you, i’ve just never come across it before)
2) I need X custom feature for MY forums, and bbPress doesn’t have it. Why not? grrrrrr
$bbdb->get_var($bbdb->prepare(“SELECT topic_id FROM $bbdb->topics WHERE topic_title = %s”, $topic_title))
If users can create topics, then users will eventually duplicate topics. All you’re doing is assuming that every user will use the exact same title for the exact same subject and all spell the title the exact same way. My friend, thats a very large group of assumptions.
You’re also assuming that no users will decide that their opinion is v important and deliberately start their own post with a slightly different title – just to get round your warning.
Or what happens when a subject gets bogged down in a flame war?
Or when people start taking it off topic?
Or what happens when people don’t want to wade through 15 pages of “+1” or “lol”?
That will get harder and harder as your forum grows, especially if it’s got a rather specific subject matter. I can understand where this idea comes from, from a website owner point of view, but the usability and long term goal of the this feature is seriously flawed.
Users on a forum, by their very nature, want to create new threads. Creating 1 stream of replies for 1 single topic… thats a blog. Forums are “many to many” or “n to n”. To restrict that in any way is to deviate from what the userbase expects, and inherantly, their desire to use the system.
You come across as very intelligent, and you’ve clearly thought this through from your point of view. Have you thought it through from your users?
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I’m not a huge fan of these themes, as for the most part its just the wrapper of the forum that’s themed differently (which will mostly be removed if made to look like a wordpress website); but I’m very grateful to Refuelled for working on them and releasing them.
Thank You, It’s very much appreciated!
And Xevo, don’t worry about. Everyone’s entitled to their opinion, even… people who’ve been on the site for 6 hours, who use 3 different themes on their own website and can’t get their email to work
I think I see the confusion.
Pete, you’ve assumed the plugin does something it doesn’t do. It doesn’t allow you to upload videos or images, and doesn’t give you a separate post field in which to type the URL of the video.
All it does, like every other forum software, is allow you the automatic convertion of some code into HTML.
i.e.
What your user types:
[video] www.youtube.com/abcdefghijk [/video]
What bbPress outputs:
The video
Sorry, but hope this helps clear things up
Hi Lethality,
Sadly WordPress/bbPress integration isn’t well defined anywhere outside this website – it basically means shared users and login (though for alot of people thats ideal).
If you have the cash to spend on something that already works, I’d definately favour that option.
The idea of extending bbPress into WordPress is a good one, but of course you’d still need to edit WordPress to either post comments to the right forum, or to redirect to the right forum if someone tried to add a comment. I’d be surprised if there was much desire for this on the whole, so going with the existing solution might be your best bet.
Good luck in whatever you decide, and let us know
Kev
