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Can I set it up to do URLs like this?

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    Can I set it up to do URLs like this?

    I have a Harry Potter forums site. My forums are located at root, like this Harry Potter Message Boards :: SnitchSeeker.com

    I am hoping to be able to set this up to write my forums as follows:

    I have one section for "news", which is located on the breadcrumb like this:
    SnitchSeeker.com > Forums > Daily Prophet > Harry Potter News

    Can I set up vbseo to print the url like this:
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    http://www.snitchseeker.com/daily-prophet/harry-potter-news/
    or this
    Code:
    http://www.snitchseeker.com/harry-potter-news/
    or so that both would work?

    Next example, inside the news forum, there is a thread called "Detailed OotP Trailer description, transcript, screencaps"

    Could I set the url to look like this:
    Code:
    www.snitchseeker.com/detailed-ootp-trailer-description-transcript-screencaps.htm
    In other words, without the forum name?

    I only want it to work like this for this one single forum. The other forums I would like to set up differently, like this...

    Breadcrumb example:
    SnitchSeeker.com > Forums > Wizarding World > Flourish and Blotts (Books) > Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

    Desired url for above:
    Code:
    www.snitchseeker.com/wizarding-world/books/harry-potter-half-blood-prince/
    And a thread in that forum called "What does Dumbledore really know?" to be like this:
    Code:
    www.snitchseeker.com/books/hbp/what-does-dumbledore-really-know.htm
    Notice the change of the path to the forum from /harry-potter-falf-blood-prince/ to /hbp/ because don't long URLs get penalized?

    In other words, how flexible is it? Can rules be customized on a per-forum basis? And even change when you are in a thread rather than in the forum?

    Can somebody please answer my questions specifically (each example) rather than just a simple, "You can customize vbseo to do that".

    Thank you!

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    Hello,

    currently it is not possible to have "short version" for the forum_title in URLs. As per-subforum forum_title configuration, you can define this manually in cofig_vbseo.php file using "forum slugs": http://www.vbseo.com/f2/custom-forum-titles-9416/

    Also, showthread URL formats must include thread_id part.

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    Fair enough. Thanks for answering!

    So, I guess that means the thread title will always have some numbers in it. I guess I can live with that. Not optimal but I can understand about double-post-titles, etc so ok.

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    even if it was possible, you don't want to do this. it's a huge duplicate content issue.

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