[jreeve]

I currently have forum topic URLs that look like this:

http://example.com/groups/my-group/forum/topic/some-topic-name

…but I would like them to look like this:

http://example.com/groups/my-group/discussion/topic/some-topic-name

Is there a way to do that?

[danbp]

See in bbp forum settings and modify the group forum(parent) name.

Installing Group and Sitewide Forums

[jreeve]

@danbp, changing the parent forum name doesn’t have any effect on the slug.

[r-a-y]

At the moment, you can’t.

This is handled in the bbPress plugin:
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.5.7/includes/extend/buddypress/groups.php#L55

You could try overriding those variables on the 'bp_include' hook. See where bbPress initializes BuddyPress:
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.5.7/includes/core/actions.php#L132
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.5.7/includes/core/extend.php#L38

So in theory, you could overload those slugs on the bbpress()->extend->buddypress object on the 'bp_include' hook after priority 10.

Untested, but see if that works. This will also break all your old forum links in the activity stream if you did this.

[jreeve]

Thanks @r-a-y! Internal link breakage is something I hadn’t fully considered, thanks for that. That might keep us from renaming this slug, after all. But if we do decide to do it, I’ll look into this hooks.