Friendly URL’s

  • Resolved jgoldbloom

    (@jgoldbloom)


    7 years, 9 months ago

    Would love to see /view-forum/forum-name/topic-title (etc.)

    …instead of: ?view=forum&id=16

    SEO impacts query strings like that plus SQL injection/XSS issues possible regardless of WP sanity protection, my .02. Definable/dynamic permalink slugs for categories/topics/etc. coming down the pike ???

    Thanks, love the plugin.

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  • Plugin Author Asgaros

    (@asgaros)

    Hello

    This is already on my todo-list since a very long time:
    https://github.com/Asgaros/asgaros-forum/issues/10

    I hope that I can ship this with version 1.5. ??

    Thread Starter jgoldbloom

    (@jgoldbloom)

    Thanks, this is actually very important.

    As to cyrillic characters and the other plugin noted in that older topic link as well as transliteration in general, I feel WP core should handle all aspects and not just sanitization of permalinks/slugs. Must drive plugin authors crazy! Short of that, have you considered bypassing plugins like cyr2lat or bloating your code base and instead managing links very simply like this:

    /forum-slug/view-category/12
    /forum-slug/view-forum/13
    /forum-slug/view-category/12/view-forum/13/view-topic/14
    …etc…

    If you build the paths to match the breadcrumb trail and create simple slugs appended with ID’s this would satisfy the concerns expressed earlier about query strings and not rely on transliteration issues with MB character sets. Of course the better SEO approach would be including text instead of ID’s but just posing an alternative.

    Whatever you decide, thanks for the info and discussion.

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