I’m currently developing a WP (4.5.2) site with the bbPress plug-in (2.5.9).

I have various standard WP pages and posts (e.g. About (slug: about) and Help (slug: help)) on the site.

The forum runs under the forums root slug.

When creating a forum or topic, for example, whose slug is the same as that of an existing page, trying to display that forum/topic fails with a 404 error.

For example, creating a forum with the name “About” (slug: about) leads to the (correct) bbPress URL /forums/forum/about/. However, trying to display that forum at that specific URL fails with a 404 error, apparently because a page with the URL/slug /about/ already exists for a WP page.

This only seems to happen when a page/post/etc. exists that has such a “conflicting” slug, which is still puzzling because the bbPress forum has its own root slug/URL path /forums/, which should prevent such conflicts.

Renaming the forum slug manually to something like aboutx fixes the issue, and the forum is then accessible just fine under /forums/forum/aboutx/. (This is obviously not a solution, but illustrates that there must be some sort of slug conflict.)

1. Is this a known issue, or what could the problem be?
2. Alternatively, is there a way to automatically append a (e.g. random) string to any bbPress forum/topic/post slug to prevent something like this?

[@angrygerman Participant 8 years, 6 months ago]

Actually – nevermind this one. Turns out this issue was caused by a different plug-in.

Problem resolved.

[@robin-w Moderator 8 years, 6 months ago]

great – glad you’re fixed !

[@tzeldin88 Participant 8 years, 5 months ago]

Which plugin caused the conflict?

[@angrygerman Participant 8 years, 5 months ago]

It was a custom-developed plug-in, so nothing you would see out in the wild.