How To Use XDForum in WordPress Blogs With Nice Permalinks
October 30th, 2006 by Angsuman ChakrabortyXDForum (example: Anaconda Forum) is a nice basic forum software which works seamlessly with WordPress blogs (download our free theme and plugins). Unfortunately it works out-of-the-box with default permalinks only. Most site today use nice permalinks. This mini-tutorial will teach you how to use XDForum with nice permalinks (how to enable; tips and more).
Replace the .htaccess generated by your WordPress 2.x blog with this:
# BEGIN WordPress
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule !xdforum/ /index.php [L]
RewriteRule ^xdforum/([^/\(\)]*)/?([^/\(\)]*)/?([^/\(\)]*)/?([^/\(\)]*)/?([^/\(\)]*)/?([^/\(\)]*)/?([^/\(\)]*)/?(\([^/\(\)]*\))?/? /index.php?pagename=xdforum&xdforum_action=$1&xf_id=$3&xt_id=$5&xp_id=$6&start=$8&pstart=$8 [QSA,L]
# END WordPress
Change the permission of .htaccess to 644.
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October 30th, 2006 at 6:30 am
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October 30th, 2006 at 1:11 pm
Have you considered using bbPress as forum software?
October 30th, 2006 at 8:26 pm
Thanks for the suggestion. I will take a look.
October 31st, 2006 at 12:27 am
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