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

Can nobody help me ?

Yes ? No ?

No

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

Jamie Poitra - 10 January 2008 09:22 PM

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.

@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.

Helmi - 18 October 2008 10:49 AM

@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?

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.

Helmi - 18 October 2008 11:11 AM

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.