Hi Pagal,
I have customized the permalink for bbpress, and it works fine. It’s still on the testing stage, though you can try this. The following is the modifications I have done.
Step 1:
Open ‘bb-admin/options-permalinks.php’
You will find a permalink options declaration. Add one more option as shown below, it will add one more option in the permalink options in the backend. You can make the custom option with a text field, in order to customize in your own way (I have done in a predefined format in order to make it simple).
$permalink_options = array(
'mod_rewrite' => array(
'title' => __( 'Permalink type' ),
'type' => 'radio',
'options' => array(
'0' => sprintf( __( '<span>None</span> %s' ), bb_get_uri( 'forum.php', array( 'id' => 1 ), BB_URI_CONTEXT_TEXT ) ),
'1' => sprintf( __( '<span>Numeric</span> %s' ), bb_get_uri( 'forum/1', null, BB_URI_CONTEXT_TEXT ) ),
'slugs' => sprintf( __( '<span>Name based</span> %s' ), bb_get_uri( '/forum/first-forum', null, BB_URI_CONTEXT_TEXT ) ),
'custom' => sprintf( __( '<span>Custom</span> %s' ), bb_get_uri( '/forum/%parent_slug%/%forum_slug%', null, BB_URI_CONTEXT_TEXT ))
)
)
);
Step 2:
Now we have to create the custom format of permalinks for forums and topics.
Open ‘bb-includes/functions.bb-template.php’
We have to modify two functions ‘get_forum_link’ and ‘get_topic_link’. See the changes I have done for the custom permalink option.
function get_forum_link( $forum_id = 0, $page = 1, $context = BB_URI_CONTEXT_A_HREF ) {
$forum = bb_get_forum( get_forum_id( $forum_id ) );
if (!$context || !is_integer($context)) {
$context = BB_URI_CONTEXT_A_HREF;
}
$rewrite = bb_get_option( 'mod_rewrite' );
if ( $rewrite ) {
$page = (1 < $page) ? '/page/' . $page : '';
if ($rewrite === 'custom') {
if ($forum->forum_parent > 0) {
$parent = bb_get_forum($forum->forum_parent);
$parent_slug = $parent->forum_slug;
$custom_link = $parent_slug . '/' . $forum->forum_slug;
} else {
$custom_link = $forum->forum_slug;
}
$link = bb_get_uri('forum/' . $custom_link . $page, null, $context);
} else {
if ( $rewrite === 'slugs' ) {
$column = 'forum_slug';
} else {
$column = 'forum_id';
}
$link = bb_get_uri('forum/' . $forum->$column . $page, null, $context);
}
} else {
$query = array(
'id' => $forum->forum_id,
'page' => (1 < $page) ? $page : false
);
$link = bb_get_uri('forum.php', $query, $context);
}
return apply_filters( 'get_forum_link', $link, $forum->forum_id, $context );
}
function get_topic_link( $id = 0, $page = 1, $context = BB_URI_CONTEXT_A_HREF ) {
$topic = get_topic( get_topic_id( $id ) );
if (!$context || !is_integer($context)) {
$context = BB_URI_CONTEXT_A_HREF;
}
$args = array();
$rewrite = bb_get_option( 'mod_rewrite' );
if ( $rewrite ) {
$page = (1 < $page) ? '/page/' . $page : '';
if ($rewrite === 'custom') {
$custom_link = '';
if ($topic->forum_id > 0) {
$forum = bb_get_forum($topic->forum_id);
if ($forum->forum_parent > 0) {
$parent = bb_get_forum($forum->forum_parent);
$custom_link = $parent->forum_slug;
}
$custom_link .= '/' . $forum->forum_slug;
}
if (!empty($custom_link)) {
$custom_link .= '/topic/' . $topic->topic_slug;
} else {
$custom_link .= 'topic/' . $topic->topic_slug;
}
$link = bb_get_uri($custom_link . $page, null, $context);
} else {
if ( $rewrite === 'slugs' ) {
$column = 'topic_slug';
} else {
$column = 'topic_id';
}
$link = bb_get_uri('topic/' . $topic->$column . $page, null, $context);
}
} else {
$page = (1 < $page) ? $page : false;
$link = bb_get_uri('topic.php', array('id' => $topic->topic_id, 'page' => $page), $context);
}
return apply_filters( 'get_topic_link', $link, $topic->topic_id, $context );
}
Step 3:
Now we have to define the htaccess rules.
Open ‘.htaccess’ file in bbpress root folder, and add following two lines just above the code line – RewriteRule ^topic/?$ /forums/ [R=302,L,QSA].
RewriteRule ^(.+)/topic/(.+) /forums/topic.php?id=$2 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^forum/(.+)/(.+) /forums/forum/$2/ [L,QSA]
Here is how my URLs looks after making these modifications:
Forum URL: mysite.com/forums/forum/en/first-forum-in-english
Topic URL: mysite.com/forums/en/first-forum-in-english/topic/the-ipad-developers-challenge
