Hi, As we know when we add some category in our discourse community its URL shows as https://forum.dark-gaming.com/c/questions-support/10 . In this category “c” is represent the category. My question is can we modify this default URL where we can add any custom word or letter instead of “c”?

Maybe it could be possible by modifying the Discourse source, initially these two files (Could break Discourse though) config/routes.rb main # frozen_string_literal: true require "sidekiq/web" require "mini_scheduler/web" # The following constants have been replaced with `Rou…

[image] Alexander Barrios: modifying the Discourse source That sounds like a really bad idea.

Yeah we should not take such a big risk.

@RGJ do you have any idea how we can change?

You would make to create a plugin, overriding the /c routes. I’m interested: why do you want to change this?

[image] Richard - Communiteq: That sounds like a really bad idea. This is the advice that you should heed. Humans, perhaps other than that one person in marketing or management who likely will never log in to the forum anyway, don’t notice URLs.

We are going to provide different type of Mock interview services in our community and my client wants to add “forum” instead of “c” to make url easy to understand. Which plugin can help to change this?

[image] Waqar Akram: Which plugin can help to change this? Out there isn’t any, as far as I know. You have to hire a dev and there isn’t any qurantees such plugin will work. That will increase costs relatively much and then it is totally acceptable ask if your client is willing to pay for ch…

Option 1: tell your client it’s expensive Option 2: tinker with admin - customize - permalinks to redirect /forum/whatever-your-client-wants to the correct category

[image] Richard - Communiteq: Option 2: tinker What are odds that will break a lot functionality that is category dependent?

Can we change the URL of categories?

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Moin September 21, 2022, 4:03pm 14

You can use html

Title

Text ....

<details>
    <summary><b>Title</b></summary>
    <p>Text .... </p>
</details>

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Can we change the URL of categories?

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