[elanaspantry]

Is there a way to modify an existing permalink?

I want to change ‘http://www.elanaspantry.com/forums/topic/substitute-for-alond-flour’

to

‘http://www.elanaspantry.com/forums/topic/substitute-for-almond-flour’

[chrishajer]

I don’t think you can do it through the bbPress interface at all ( I could be wrong about that, but I’ve never seen it. ) You would have to modify it directly in the database. Using a tool like phpMyAdmin find the topic in the bb_topics table, and modify the topic_slug. Make sure the slug you select does not already exist – the slugs need to be unique.

[elanaspantry]

thx chrishajer,

i thought so… just wanted to exhaust any other means before editing the db directly.

[chrishajer]

I thought maybe giving the thread a new topic would result in an updated slug, but it does not (slug does not change). I don’t see an option to change it anywhere, other than just modifying the bb_topic table directly.

[Sam Bauers]

@chrishajer

They are called permalinks for a reason

[chrishajer]

@sambauers – but we’re used to WordPress where they’re pretty easy to change in the admin.

[Sam Bauers]

WordPress actually keeps a reference to the old URL and sets up a redirect automatically I believe. So there it stays permanent. We don’t do that yet.