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    Best practices when changing forum category titles

    Some of my forums are not as keyword friendly and actually a bit confusing for my readers. I wanted to change the names of a few forums, all of which have a ton of posts.

    Outside of sending an updated sitemap, what are the best practices when doing something along these lines since a ton of URL's will change.

    Thanks in advance.

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    Obviously the best thing to do is to not move anything.
    But if you must move, you should set up a custom redirect in your control panel

    '^oldform/(.*)' => 'newforum/$1/'

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    Quote Originally Posted by Brian Cummiskey View Post
    Obviously the best thing to do is to not move anything.
    But if you must move, you should set up a custom redirect in your control panel

    '^oldform/(.*)' => 'newforum/$1/'
    For some reason, it adds a '/' at the end, so the resulting URL is:
    http://www.mysite.com/forum/new-category//

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    yes, just use

    '^oldform/(.*)' => 'newforum/$1'

    in that case.

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    Thanks Brian. That did the trick.

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