An IPB URL issue solved

I've been trying to get around a multiple URL issue within IPB and Matt Mecham has helped me solve the problem.

Since we're not using IPB here, I will copy some URLs from the IPB company forums.

If you visit the Pre-Sales Questions forum, you see this URL - Invision Power Services -> Pre-Sales Questions

I selected a thread to view, at this URL -http://community.invisionpower.com/topic/301666-renewal-question/

After reading the thread, I click Go on the Forum Jump menu to go back to the Pre-Sales Questions forum. Remember that URL from above? But if I use the Forum Jump menu, I end up back on the Pre-Sales Question forum, but it now has this URL - Invision Power Services

What happened to the keyword-rich FURL we had before?!?

I've been chatting with Matt on Twitter about IPB and SEO, so I pointed this issue out to him. And he immediately handed me a fix.

It takes all of about 5 seconds to apply the fix too, which is the best part of all.

Admin CP > Look & Feel > Select Style to Edit > Global Templates > forum_jump

Look the first line -

Code:

<form id='forum_jump' action='{parse url="" base="public"}' method='post'>

Change it to read -

Code:

<form id='forum_jump' action='{parse url="" base="public"}' method='get'>

You're finished. Thanks go to Matt Mecham for this one.

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Thx for the tips Mike

 

So, from "post" to "get".

Nice and quick fix. Thanks Mike!

 

Yes sir, it's just that simple.

And be sure to thank Matt, he came up with the fix. All I did was gripe about it.

 

Excellent tip, thanks for passing it along Mike!