Have the name of the master forum in subforum urls

[StarBuG]

Hi

What I really would like to see is the option to have the name of the master forum in the url for a subforum

my problem is (translated):

My Forum: www.Patientenfragen.net (patient questions)

I have a forum called: Alternativmedizin (alternative medicine)

URL: http://www.patientenfragen.net/alternativmedizin/

This forum has a sub forum:

kritisch betrachtet (a critical view)

URL: http://www.patientenfragen.net/kritisch-betrachtet/

Which makes no sense for my forum.
Translated it means "patient questions, a critical view" which is totally not what the url should say.

I would like to see the url like this:

http://www.patientenfragen.net/alternativmedizin/kritisch-betrachtet/
(patient questions, alternative medicine, a critical view)

Because many users have forums with a whole lot of numbers of sub forums and most of them wont need to include the master forum name into the url an optional setting would be the best solution.

This could be done as choice by adding forum IDs into a text box like for "Excluded Forums List" in vBSEO Sitemap.
Every forum that is entered in this text box gets the master forum name added to the url.

The same could be done for category names, also optional.

Example:

Category1
- Forum 1
--- Forum 2
--- Forum 3
-Forum 4
--- Forum 5
------ Forum 6

Setting:

Add the name of the master forum to the url of the following sub forums.
Please enter Forum ID, separate by comma: 3, 5, 6

URLs:
domain/Forum 1/
domain/Forum 2/
domain/Forum 1/Forum 3/
domain/Forum 4/
domain/Forum 4/Forum 5/
domain/Forum 4/Forum 5/Forum 6/


I hope it is understandable what I am trying to suggest

What do you think?

StarBuG

[Mert Gökçeimam]

That will have a huge disadvantage because the url's will be too long and google hates long url's and consider long url's as spam most of the time.

[Keith Cohen]

Edit your Forum URL formats and use [forum_path] instead of [forum_title] to achieve this.

[StarBuG]

The problem with forum_path is, that it also adds the category title into the url, which is not what I want.

@mert:
This feature should be optional for many reasons, but there are definitely some advantages for this feature as well. You can restrict url length already if you have this concern.

[Ace Shattock]

What is the URL you get if using that rewrite?

What is the URL you want to get?

I ask, because all of your examples in the first post do include the category title..

[StarBuG]

DOH, you are right

That was my mistake, sorry

The url I have and want is explained in my initial post.

But in my examples (I will correct them now )

domain/Forum 1/Forum 3/

Instead of

domain/Forum 3/

[StarBuG]

Any comment on this?

[Oleg Ignatiuk]

Hello,

currently per-subforum selection of URL formats is not supported by vBSEO.

[StarBuG]

I know that, this is why I posted this in the Feature Request forum.

What I wanted to know is, if you gave it any thoughts

[Oleg Ignatiuk]

Oh, I see
I think that per-subforum definitions would make control panel a bit too complex, however you can use vBSEO Slugs - Custom Forum Titles to define custom URLs for subforums.

[Juan Muriente]

Not many people are currently using the vBSEO slugs feature as it's still in beta and not documented.

Please post your feedback here once you have applied it for your intended use. It would be extremely valuable for us while moving this feature from config_vbseo.php to the front-end (vbseocp.php)/ i.e. taking it out of beta.

[StarBuG]

I have tried:

$vbseo_forum_slugs = array(
39 => 'alternativmedizin/kritisch-betrachtet'
);

but I get a "Page not found"

Any ideas why?

But yeah, this feature is exactly what I was looking for.
Different direction but it does the trick.
Now we just need to get it to work

Ah one more problem.
Would it be possible to have the old thread urls 301 redirected to the new url after this is applied.
There are not many threads in this forum so this should not be a big problem.
But I would need some help with this.

[Oleg Ignatiuk]

Slash characters are currently not allowed in the forum title part (slugs) to avoid possible URL format conflicts.

Would it be possible to have the old thread urls 301 redirected to the new url after this is applied.
There are not many threads in this forum so this should not be a big problem.

While thread URLs are automatically redirected when thread title is change, you will have to create "Custom Redirects" in vbseocp for every subforum in this case like:

'old-forum-title/(.*)' => 'new-forum-title/$1'

[StarBuG]

But if slashes are not allowed, then the whole slug thing would not achieve what I try to achieve.

I think you should allow slashes for people like me to be able to make a forum structure like I explained in my example.

[StarBuG]

Any options here?