[bbDev] Permalinks Plugin - Changing Mod Rewrite Rules

[Aditya Naik]

sam..

do you wanna take this one? :)

- a

On 3/13/07, info at swing-sets.us <info at swing-sets.us> wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I am trying to change the bbPress permalinks but I am stuck when it
> comes to paggination. I've already written a plugin and I have a
> working example at www.dfur.com
>
> My permalinks structure idea is
> www.example.com/forum_name
> www.example.com/forum_name/page/2 for pagination
> www.example.com/forum_name/topic_id
> www.example.com/forum_name/topic_id/page/2 for pagination
>
> Pagination can be change from page/2 to page_2, same thing with the
> topic_id.
>
> There are 2 reasons for witch I am working on this:
> 1. www.example.com/forum_name/topic_id will offer better usability and
> help with the search engine rankings
> 2. A custom permalink structure will allow other platform forums
> owners to switch to bbPress AND keep their current linking structure.
> I have a PHPBB forum that I want to move to bbPress but if I will
> loose all the links there will be a nightmare restoring all my rakings.
>
> I?ve written a plugin that changes the forum links to
> www.example.com/forum_name.
> You can see a working example on my test site www.dfur.com, the plugin
> can be downloaded from http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/771
> To make this work I?ve added in to following link for each topic of my
> site in htaccess
> RewriteRule ^designer_furniture/topic([0-9]+)$ /topic.php?id=$1 [L,QSA]
>
> The problem comes to pagination. Please see
> http://www.dfur.com/designer_furniture
> The ?page 2? pagination should be
> http://www.dfur.com/designer_furniture/page/2 However this link does
> not works. The 301 from bb_repermalink function in
> bb-includes/functions.php redirect me back to the forum category.
>
> From what I?ve understood the bb_repermalink makes a check to see if
> the links is correctly created: if - ( is_forum() )? $permalink =
> get_forum_link( $permalink, $page ); and if this fails it gives the
> 301 redirect.
> From my point of view creating a 301 (permanently moved) is not a
> good move for search engines, especially Google. The 301 may cause a
> duplicate page issue with Google. The standard recommendation for a
> non existing page is a 404 with a noindex, nofollow. I see that the
> wordpress and bbpress forums have the 404 but the regular bbpress
> powered forums do not have this option.
>
> Anyway I need some help finishing this plugin. Why am I being
> redirected and how can I avoid that? How can I bypass this 301 and
> what triggers it?
>
> Thank you,
> Mircea Piturca.
>
>
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