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   ryan
   Admin

   This forum is wrapped inside the WordPress theme to keep the style consistent across the site. To do that I included the WordPress blog-header.php file because I needed to be able to use the sidebar widgets even though the forum software is technically running separately.

   I noticed a major problem though. Even though the forum pages are displaying correctly, the server is returning a 404 header so search engines think the page isn't there. I know the reason is because I'm including that blog-header.php file and WordPress thinks the forum page doesn't exist. But I'm looking for a solution to what seems to be a fairly significant problem.

   And I did find a WordPress plugin that overrides the 404 header by sending a 200 header later, but that seems like it would cause even the correctly sent 404s to be overridden as well and that doesn't do any good.

   Ryan

   Posted 2 years ago #
2. 

   ryan
   Admin

   Found a partial solution at the bbPress support forum. It involved writing a WordPress plugin to add a few rewrite rules. Forum topic and board indexes seem to be returning 200 headers like they should be. The only problem is that if I browse to a non-existing thread id and the bbPress error message shows for topic not found the header is still a 200.

   Posted 2 years ago #
3. 

   ryan
   Admin

   Turns out I needed to edit the plugin code a little to take care of the tag and profile links since they were still returning 404s.

   Here is the completed code.

   <?php
/*
Plugin Name: bbPress 404 Fixer
Description: Fixes 404 errors in bbPress wrapped in WordPress
Version: 0.0.1
*/
function forum_flush_rewrites() {
global $wp_rewrite;
$wp_rewrite->flush_rules();
}
add_action('init', 'forum_flush_rewrites');
function forum_add_rewrites($wp_rewrite) {
add_rewrite_rule('forum/topic', 'forum/topic.php');
add_rewrite_rule('forum/forum', 'forum/forum.php');
add_rewrite_rule('forum/profile', 'forum/profile.php');
add_rewrite_rule('forum/tags', 'forum/tags.php');
add_rewrite_rule('forum', 'forum/index.php');
$wp_rewrite->rules = array_merge($wp_rewrite->non_wp_rules, $wp_rewrite->rules);
}
add_action('generate_rewrite_rules', 'forum_add_rewrites');
?>

   Posted 2 years ago #
4. 

   wvoelcker
   Member

   You are a life-saver. Thank you so much.

   Posted 1 year ago #

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