Legacy Add support for VBSEO slugs or similar

[OpenSightSoftware]

In VBSEO I could map a forum id to a custom forum title this gave me the ability to name a forum as "Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)" and then map it to "faq"

So I could have the url as
http://www.flashfxp.com/forum/faq/
instead of
http://www.flashfxp.com/forum/frequently-asked-questions-faq/

In VBSEO this was done via a textbox

forumid => 'custom name'

15 => 'faq'

 

[neounix]

Some of these type of changes are better done with mod_rewrite or vBulletin RRs, in my view.

If you look at VBSEO, it was too complicated, and provided a lot of features that could have been done else where. For example, there is not reason to have DBSEO support every possibility of adding rewrite rules when it is easy to add a one-liner to your apache2 configuration to do the same mod_rewrite; especially if you are simply mapping and do not require code to extract keywords from titles, etc.

The same is also true for simple replacements. These are much more easily managed in the vB Replacement Variable manager part of the Style Manager for many replacements which were done in the "overly complex" VBSEO.

Just my view... I think it is better to have DBSEO focus on core SEO functions which cannot be easily done with mod_rewrite vB replacement variables, and other built-in functions.

 

[Fillip H.]

We currently have no plans to implement any further vBSEO-equivalent features, though if enough of our customers want them plans can always change

One of our long-term plans is to make all SEO URLs entirely editable, though we still lack the ground work for such functionality.
The idea is to make it so that if auto-generated URLs for threads or forums (or indeed any other piece of content) is sub-optimal (as tends to happen with automated systems), you'll be able to change it.