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Created two forums with the same name... is there a way to fix this without deleting the forum?

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    Created two forums with the same name... is there a way to fix this without deleting the forum?

    vBSEO installed... doing some reorganizing and accidentally created a category forum with the same name as an existing forum. So vBSEO is using the same url for both of them. I tried changing the name, but vBSEO has locked in its url now and I don't see a way to change it. Do I need to delete this forum to fix it?

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    Hello Mike ,

    You can use forum slugs to define a different name for one of your forums.

    You can define a slug within vBSEO Cp > General Settings > vBSEO Options > Advanced Options > Define vBSEO Forum Slugs
    PHP Code:
    // 100 will be the id of the forum
    100 => 'new-name' 
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    vBSEO doesn't 'lock in' any names. Just make sure you aren't trying to use a stop word, as it will get stripped.

    ie

    'aforum'
    and
    'the aforum at a be'
    will both be
    /aforum/
    due to the stop words being stripped from the url.

    You can also use the slugs as Mert suggests above, Or you can change your re-write to include ID's.

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