Option to Change URL Rewrite Engine like Wordpress

matbrgz

Today, the URL of a discussion is:
https://discuss.flarum.org/d/<discussion-ID>-<discussion-name>

Like WordPress, the option to choose different permalinks for topics will be an awesome feature to be in core.

Username Slug from u to any
Tag Slug from t to any
Discussion Slug from f to any

Discussion Name from <discussion-ID>-<discussion-name> to:

Discussion Name %discussionName%
Discussion ID %discussionID%
Discussion UUID %discussionUUID%
Tag %tag%
Year %year%
Month Number %monthNum%
Day %day%
Hour %Hour%
Minute %Minute%

Best Regards

luceos

Advanced slugging is already possible inside Flarum, an Extender exists inside core to manage all that: https://github.com/flarum/framework/blob/main/framework/core/src/Extend/ModelUrl.php

To bring it to the level that Wordpress uses would require someone to write an extension. I honestly don't entirely feel like this should be a core responsibility.

matbrgz

luceos

" I honestly don't entirely feel like this should be a core responsibility." Why?

Bring it to Flarum could help different implementation like Help/Ticket System or Gamer Forum bring different approach to same Flarum. Definitely, it could be an extension.

See ya

Hari

luceos do you mean we can generate a discussion link like this for example?

https://discuss.flarum.org/this-is-discussion-url/ ✅✅
https://discuss.flarum.org/d/this-is-discussion-url/ ✅
https://discuss.flarum.org/d/this-is-discussion-url/100 ❌
https://discuss.flarum.org/d/458966-this-is-discussion-url/100 ❌❌

i do not want this 100 number is that possible? of course it could break internal linking? can we still keep the internal linking and not change URL from discussion to 100th post?

SychO could you tell me the possibilities of implementing the above-mentioned permalinks as an extension 😃 1st and 2nd are possible?

i mean i want to generate slugs only based on post names. i don't want the post ID in the URL

luceos

matbrgz " I honestly don't entirely feel like this should be a core responsibility." Why?

It's very easy to say yes to everything. But that also brings in more maintenance for the small (and lean) Flarum development team. The more we can say no, the more time we can focus on improving the framework in itself. Extensibility, quality, performance etc.

And a more advanced slugging system based on the many opinions we've seen so far, is very much something for a community extension to tackle. We've made it possible.

SychO

Neat, though for the amount if customization this brings to URLs, I'd say this is definitely extension territory.

matbrgz

Could a mod move this to Extension Request?

Best

SychO

Hari if you remove the post ID from the URL you wouldn't be able to directly link to a post since the software would have no way to know which post to show.

Removing /d/ would be a bad idea and create conflicts, changing to /discussion or something else is possible though (https://extiverse.com/extension/kilowhat/flarum-ext-custom-paths)

Removing the discussion ID from the slug is possible with an extension, but that would create problems with renaming a discussion which could either be 1) changing the slug thus breaking old links, or 2) ending up with a slug different from the title.

luceos

I don't think currently this request warrants any further action. Based on the availability of custom sluggers in core and the Custom Paths extension by Clark, I will close this. If, for some reason, this needs continuation, make sure to provide exact details of requirements and comparisons to current Flarum behavior and capability before making a new discussion.