[Devin Price]

Hi. I have BBPress installed at: http://www.travelinsurancereview.net/forum/. When you click on a topic it will take you to: http://www.travelinsurancereview.net/forum/forum/buying-tips-advice-and-discussion for example.

I would like to remove the additional “forum” from the url (permalink), or at least change it to “topic” or “subject”. Can someone give me an idea of where to go with this? My first thought was to change the rewrite-rules.php, but that didn’t seem to have any effect when I uploaded it with changed values.

[chrishajer]

In general, I don’t think it’s possible, from what I’ve read here.

I’ve read here in the past that the reason for the additional forum in there is that bbPress would have no idea if the slug referred to a topic or forum, hence the need for the second ‘forum’ in the URL. The first one just happens to be the name of the subdirectory you installed bbPress into.

There was this plugin, but I’m not certain if it will work with your version:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/nicer-slug-url-rewrite-plugin-done

Also, Sam Bauers talked about this recently, but I think it was something that would be possible in the future.

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/important-notice-about-10-alpha-7-and-_ck_-plugins#post-23813