Same slug

  • Resolved Poly Plugins

    (@polyplugins)


    5 years, 5 months ago

    When using documentation for multiple products you can’t use the same slugs for example plugin-1/faq and plugin-2/faq. Is there a way to fix this? I believe this is a limitation of WordPress, but didn’t know if this plugin took this into account and had a solution.

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  • Plugin Author BasePress

    (@codesavory)

    5 years, 5 months ago

    Hi @polyplugins,

    WordPress requires that all custom post types pages are preceded with a fixed slug.
    The KB slug is set with the main Knowledge base page. You can change that if needed but it will apply to all the URLs:

    http://www.your-domain.com/kb-slug/plugin-1/
    http://www.your-domain.com/kb-slug/plugin-2/

    I hope this answers your question!

    Thread Starter Poly Plugins

    (@polyplugins)

    5 years, 1 month ago

    Sorry I should have given more info. It shouldn’t have to do this for articles though correct?

    Example
    domain.com/documentation/plugin-1/getting-started/
    domain.com/documentation/plugin-2/getting-started/

    Currently I can not create 2 getting started sections even though I am under a different knowledgebase. If I try to do this, it changes it from /getting-started/ to /getting-started-plugin-2/

    • This reply was modified 5 years, 1 month ago by Poly Plugins.
    Plugin Author BasePress

    (@codesavory)

    5 years, 1 month ago

    Hi,
    that is how WordPress permalinks work. You cannot have two posts with the same slug. It is in fact WordPress that automatically adds the number after the slug if there is already a post with the same slug.

    What you can do is prefix or suffix the slug:

    domain.com/documentation/plugin-1/p1-getting-started/
    domain.com/documentation/plugin-2/p2-getting-started/

    Thread Starter Poly Plugins

    (@polyplugins)

    5 years, 1 month ago

    WeDocs is able to do this. I believe they are doing it by using pages because WordPress considers child page slugs to be unique. Is this something that could be implemented or if I add in this functionality would you accept a PR? I like y’alls plugin more, and this helps with SEO.

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    Plugin Author BasePress

    (@codesavory)

    5 years, 1 month ago

    Hi,

    implementing this is not as trivial as it may seem.
    We have not long ago rebuilt the logic for the permalinks and it is not possible to just change it again without risking to break other features.
    I’ll add this the feature request but I cannot guaranty that it can be done or when it would be done.
    I hope you understand!

    Thread Starter Poly Plugins

    (@polyplugins)

    5 years, 1 month ago

    Awesome thank you! Would love to use this!

    Thread Starter Poly Plugins

    (@polyplugins)

    5 years, 1 month ago

    Also I was able to migrate WeDocs to your plugin, but I had to use the Permalink Manager Pro plugin to get the urls the way I wanted. It was very cumbersome, but I have it where I like it now.

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