Using the forum on the home page

#1 · December 8, 2018, 6:48 pm

Возникла небольшая проблема при использовании форума в качестве главной страницы сайта.

При нажатии на вкладку «форум» в меню форума, открывается страница с добавлением URL «форум». Оказывается, главная страница дублируется вкладкой меню.

Убедитесь сами, как главная страница со ссылкой в меню форума дублирует главную страницу (созданы две основные страницы форума).

Можно ли как-то исправить дубликаты? Спасибо заранее за вашу поддержку!

#2 · December 9, 2018, 6:54 am

Currently appointed page to the forum and the main page redirected to it.

#3 · December 9, 2018, 8:18 pm

Hello @nelamzin

Actually the pages are not duplicated. Both pages are internally the same, just the slug got removed on the homepage.

The reason why I redirect to the “real” page instead is to avoid possible problems which can occur when you use other pages. Think about the following example:

The forum is located at your frontpage
You are using another plugin for frontend-profile-management which is available on your-site.com/profile
Without locating to the real forum-page either your forum-profiles or your frontend-profile-management page would not accessible anymore because it would be impossible for WordPress to decide which page you actually want to access
The same can happen with every other combination of identical page-slugs and reserved forum-keywords

To prevent those problems – which occur in other forum-plugins like wpForo for example – a redirect is necessary. If you want to get rid of duplicate search-engine-indexing you can define a .htaccess-rule which redirects frontpage-visitors automatically to your forum-page.

If you want to support the development of Asgaros Forum, you can leave a good review or donate. Thank you very much!

#4 · December 10, 2018, 6:28 am

okay, thank you. I understand.