Redirect single replies to parent topic

[mordauk]

I'm wondering if we should automatically redirect single reply pages to their parent topic.

For example, right now if you go to Replies in the admin and click "View Reply" on a reply, you get a standard bbPress forum view of just that one reply.

This view is more or less useless, since a reply has little relevance outside of its parent topic.

How about redirecting these to the parent topic?

I personally ran into this as a problem when I started incorporating bbPress replies and topics into my site's standard WP search. The search results used get_permalink(), which returned the single reply URL, but viewing this page was pointless because the reply didn't mean anything outside of its topic.

I went ahead and wrote a small plugin to do this: ​https://github.com/pippinsplugins/bbPress-Redirect-Single-Replies-to-Topics

[alexvorn2]

the reply could have an expand link that will forward the user to the topic page... (like on twitter: if you go to a status message(tweet) - you will see a link below that can show more replies to that status...) ​http://wpimpact.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/tweet.png

[alex-ye]

I like the idea, but I still thinking that the single reply view is important too.. So I think we just need to replace the call of bbp_get_reply_permalink to bbp_get_reply_url in some places.

[mordauk]

I think the issue is more with default WP search results (or other archive-like views) that use get_permalink() on a reply.

Perhaps we should filter get_permalink() to return bbp_get_reply_url() for replies?

[johnjamesjacoby]

Replying to alex-ye:

I like the idea, but I still thinking that the single reply view is important too.. So I think we just need to replace the call of bbp_get_reply_permalink to bbp_get_reply_url in some places.

bbp_get_reply_permalink or the functions that use them, aren't traditionally exposed anywhere in the template parts. Only when you're editing a single reply is there a breadcrumb item for the reply itself. If there are links to single reply pages exposed anywhere, I agree we should replace them.

Replying to mordauk:

I think the issue is more with default WP search results (or other archive-like views) that use get_permalink() on a reply.

Perhaps we should filter get_permalink() to return bbp_get_reply_url() for replies?

This would fix the issue in your case, where you're including Forum posts in your Blog search (which I can see as being valuable in certain site configurations, but don't believe should be the default setup.)

Moving to Future Release, pending a patch, and/or further discussion. Pippin's going to put a plugin together, so we can see how this behaves before committing anything to core.

[mordauk]

Very simple plugin I wrote: ​https://github.com/pippinsplugins/bbPress-Redirect-Single-Replies-to-Topics

You can see this in play on one of my support forums, where I have bbPress topics and replies included in the main search results, instead of using the default bbPress search: ​http://pippinsplugins.com/support/?s=easy+content+types

[netweb]

Related: #2329 #2528