[brent7]

I’ve been struggling with duplicate titles ever since moving over to bbPress.

I’m using the Yoast plugin and right now I’m getting about ~1,800 duplicate titles and they are all coming from the way bbPress creates single replies.

For instance, these two pages are producing duplicate titles:

http://elitegamingcomputers.com/reply/operation-auctus-10/

and

http://elitegamingcomputers.com/reply/operation-auctus-12/

Is there anyway I can just disable the way that the forums create a single page for each reply? Or, is there a way to add a unique identifier to the titles? I’ve got page numbers working on forum topics that go multiple pages, but I can’t get the titles to work.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!

[Stephen Edgar]

There was a change to handle reply slug titles in bbPress 2.5

http://elitegamingcomputers.com/reply/operation-auctus-10/

http://elitegamingcomputers.com/reply/12078/

http://elitegamingcomputers.com/reply/operation-auctus-12/

http://elitegamingcomputers.com/reply/12095/

The above is what the updated slugs should be though as those replies were created before the 2.5 update they a) don’t work though that is what format your new slugs would use.

Looking at a recent topic http://elitegamingcomputers.com/topic/hello-everyone-3/ your reply to that topic is and works fine: http://elitegamingcomputers.com/reply/17556/

Thus this will only affect your pre bbPress 2.5 replies and there are probably a couple of options available if you wanted to retrospectively apply this to your pre 2.5 replies either with a custom PHP repair tool or directly in phpMyAdmin to grab each reply and copy it’s post ID to the post_name field in the wp_posts table.

EDIT: If you want to see the code and ticket background on this change see this and this

[brent7]

Hey Stephen, thanks for replying. I’m not sure I understand exactly how to go about fixing this problem with your suggestion as I don’t know any PHP.

[Stephen Edgar]

I’m updating all the importers with the enhancement I outlined above as we speak as we don’t really want titles to replies at all in the database.

I’ll try and figure out a plugin/tool/script that you can run so you can update your old replies.

[brent7]

Awesome, thanks Stephen! I appreciate it!