Mark Robert Henderson » PHP http://blog.markroberthenderson.com The greatest adventures in the history of LAMP development Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:50:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Getting rid of /forums/ and /topic/ from bbPress permalinks – Updated Plugin http://blog.markroberthenderson.com/getting-rid-of-forums-and-topic-from-bbpress-permalinks-updated-plugin/ http://blog.markroberthenderson.com/getting-rid-of-forums-and-topic-from-bbpress-permalinks-updated-plugin/#comments Sat, 19 Sep 2009 19:04:46 +0000 MRH http://blog.markroberthenderson.com/?p=55 I was doing some work with bbPress recently and I was looking for a way to take the standard bbPress urls and turn them into something a little more hierarchical and semantic. Currently, they look like:

http://domain.com/forums/forum/name-of-forum/

http://domain.com/forums/topic/name-of-topic/

etc..

Not exactly ideal. It would be better if they looked more like:

http://domain.com/forums/name-of-forum/name-of-topic

So I found this post on the bbPress forums, which led me to this packaged plugin by Ashsh Mohta. However, a few things were busted – new posts, and also paging on forums and topic names that end with “forum/” or “topic/”

With a few modifications, I finally got it working, and here are the steps that I took. Note: This requires a bit of bbPress core hacking, but it’s literally only switching the order of two lines in the code.

  1. Enable name based permalinks in /bb-admin/options-permalinks.php
  2. Download the plugin from this page, put it in your my-plugins folder, and enable it
  3. Change the .htaccess file at the root of your bbPress install to the htaccess.dist file packaged with the plugin.
  4. Open up bb-post.php at the root of your bbPress install and simply switch lines number 46 and 48

I’m sure this isn’t perfect, and I’d love any and all feedback. It’s been working like a charm for me for a little while now, and hopefully it will help you! I’d love to find both a way to install this and have the plugin automatically backup and rewrite the .htaccess file, and of course a way to do it without editing the core code.

Plugin: Clean Up bbPress Permalinks

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