Hi all,

Having a slight URL issue. Forums settings / slugs are default, permalink settings are using

/%postname%/

Forums URL is:
http://www.website.com/forums/

Forums topic URL one level down is:
http://www.website.com/forums/forum/website-community/announcements/
… where ‘website-community’ is the category, and ‘announcements’ is the first forum under that.

Here’s where it breaks. If I hover over a topic, the URL displays as:
http://www.website.com/forums/topic/website-community/announcements/first-topic/
… and if I click, I get a 404.

If I edit the URL manually, it will work as expected, I just have to take out the category and forum name from the url, such as:
http://www.website.com/forums/topic/first-topic/

Why are the category and forum titles appearing in the URL, and what’s the best way to fix?

Thanks in advance!

[@piksel Participant 10 years, 11 months ago]

After a little digging, discovered my Custom Post Type Permalinks plugin wasn’t playing nicely with bbPress.

Problem and solution (albeit temporary) documented here: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bbpress-topic-links-in-forums-break

Ultimately, edited the CPTP plugin file directly (ugh) line 290-something

$parentsDirs = "";
if( !$leavename ){
	$postId = $post->ID;
	if ( !in_array($post_type, array('topic', 'forum', 'reply') ) ) {
		while ($parent = get_post($postId)->post_parent) {
			$parentsDirs = get_post($parent)->post_name."/".$parentsDirs;
			$postId = $parent;
		}
	}
}