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Forum: URL rewriting ?

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sauvesourissss's avatar
sauvesourissss
36 posts
17 years ago
sauvesourissss's avatar sauvesourissss

Hi,

In my EE Forum, Is it possible to have an URL such as /forums/title_of_post/ instead of /forums/viewforum/61/ ?

Thank you

       
sauvesourissss's avatar
sauvesourissss
36 posts
17 years ago
sauvesourissss's avatar sauvesourissss

Can nobody help me ?

       
sauvesourissss's avatar
sauvesourissss
36 posts
17 years ago
sauvesourissss's avatar sauvesourissss

Yes ? No ?

       
Luke Stevens's avatar
Luke Stevens
80 posts
17 years ago
Luke Stevens's avatar Luke Stevens

No 😊

       
Jamie Poitra's avatar
Jamie Poitra
409 posts
17 years ago
Jamie Poitra's avatar Jamie Poitra

By its nature a forum really doesn’t lend itself well to URL Titles. Potentially way too many threads with the same URL Title which means you need to start checking for duplicates which means you need to start tacking on numbers to the end which means every time someone posts you are looking at an additional query at least which means on a busy forum the performance drops.

Jamie

       
Saxi's avatar
Saxi
108 posts
16 years ago
Saxi's avatar Saxi
By its nature a forum really doesn’t lend itself well to URL Titles. Potentially way too many threads with the same URL Title which means you need to start checking for duplicates which means you need to start tacking on numbers to the end which means every time someone posts you are looking at an additional query at least which means on a busy forum the performance drops. Jamie

vBulletin handles this fine, and would put money on it that it performs as good or exceedingly better than EE Forums. VBulletin is about as fast and scalable as you can get for forums, and it fully supports titles in the url.

       
Helmi's avatar
Helmi
23 posts
16 years ago
Helmi's avatar Helmi

@Saxi: No it doesn’t. The vBSEO-Addon or other Addons do.

Nevertheless this is definitely is something that should be possible anyhow. It’s definitely a SEO issue.

       
Saxi's avatar
Saxi
108 posts
16 years ago
Saxi's avatar Saxi
@Saxi: No it doesn’t. The vBSEO-Addon or other Addons do. Nevertheless this is definitely is something that should be possible anyhow. It’s definitely a SEO issue.

Same thing, there are other ones that do it natively, yes you need an add-on but is that really a big deal?

       
Helmi's avatar
Helmi
23 posts
16 years ago
Helmi's avatar Helmi

no like i said. i just wanted to make clear that vB also doesn’t do it out of the box. Anyway - you’re right. Additionally vBSEO does even more great seo things but that’s another topic.

       
Saxi's avatar
Saxi
108 posts
16 years ago
Saxi's avatar Saxi
no like i said. i just wanted to make clear that vB also doesn’t do it out of the box. Anyway - you’re right. Additionally vBSEO does even more great seo things but that’s another topic.

semantics. There is no way to do it with EE Forums stably.

       

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