Hi Ulysses,
The reason EasyDiscuss results show up in the search results is because the search plugin for EasyDiscuss is enabled(http://take.ms/bn4BT). If you do not want to include EasyDiscuss search results, perhaps you can disable this plugin.

For EasyDiscuss's reply form in Joomla articles, it is actually rendered by the plugin Content - EasyDiscuss. If you do not want to render the form on Joomla articles, you can remove the com_content from the allowed components(http://take.ms/yXhoE) or disable the plugin if you do not plan to use it.

Hey Raymond,

That worked, but it's not exactly what I was meaning to describe as the issue.

The main issue is EasyDiscuss creating fictitious pages, then placing them in the search results.

Such as; if someone searched "about" they would receive two for each result.
One page would lead them to the correct url for this example

https://mcity.pro/forums/affiliate-disclosure

If you click on that page it takes you to what looks like a forum, but when you click read more it takes you to;
https://mcity.pro/?Itemid=215
Which is the ugly way to disclose the page which is utilizing the menu item number for the actual post.

Then another duplicate would take them to a url that was associated to "forums"; like this one:

https://mcity.pro/forums/affiliate-disclosure

The thing is there isn't any forum named this, the page simply doesn't exist....

See for yourself, if you click at top search icon and search something then hover over and click links.

I have left the plugin for search -easydiscuss enabled...
As my intent is to have this enabled so others can eventually search within the forum to have their questions answered.

Hey Ulysses,
I have checked your EasyDiscuss posts and I noticed these 2 posts that you mentioned(http://take.ms/MaXXS). It looks like the ?itemid=215 url is already is in the content. Perhaps you can change this to the right url?

The thing is there isn't any forum named this, the page simply doesn't exist....

The forum post does exist as you can see in EasyDiscuss post listing page.

You are so correct once again Raymond... After going in I noticed because
Content - EasyDiscuss was enabled it automatically created another page for each easyblog article.

After going in and deleting all of them from EasyDiscuss, then ensuring content - easydiscuss was disabled this issue has resolved itself...

Here's my last question regarding this plugin....

What would one use this for exactly?

This plugin states it adds a discussion at the bottom of the article allowing the articles to be linked to EasyDiscuss. Okay great, but at the same time, it appears as though it is creating another page within the site. In turn, you would have more than one page with the same content? Wouldn't this be considered duplicate content?

Also, is there any examples as to why someone would activate this plugin?

Hello Ulysses,

Some users wants to use "EasyDiscuss" as a commenting solution rather than having a standard comment feature. For instance, if you try to access http://macrumors.com , their comments section are actually from the forums instead

Just took a look, that's extremely interesting...
They have https://www.macrumors.com and https://forums.macrumors.com is where the comment section manifested.

Like this blog;

https://www.macrumors.com/2017/07/18/panic-releases-transmit-5/

is also located here:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/panic-releases-transmit-5-with-major-improvements-but-no-mac-app-store-version.2057267/

I really like the idea of the comments being more of a discussion from any blog that is created, a lot.

But is there anything on getting it so it's not looking like duplicate content?
Or am I missing something prior to disabling the content - easydiscuss plugin that would help make something like this possible?

Very interested in this approach.

This is actually what EasyDiscuss does If you look at the post, on the blog and forum they are actually the same which is what we are trying to do with this plugin too.

Really, I like... Okay, the last thing which was the basis of this ticket.
How can I avoid duplicate pages showing up on the search?

From the beginning of this ticket if I enabled the plugin it created the same contact in easydiscuss causing two of each page.
But the url was different..... So then I wonder how we can fix this so that way they can search forums and blogs and not have duplicate pages from easyblog, but can still enable search-easydiscuss so they can also search forums.

Is there a trick to that I am just missing somewhere?

As I am really digging the option of having blog and discuss working together.

It is not a duplicate, one page serves as an article and the other is a forum.

Gotcha, what I mean is, is there some secret way to have the search only show the blog content.
But also the official forums or do they have to be separated some how?
For instance, I created a blog post with content - easydiscuss enabled and searched "test".
It is showing one page for the blog and one for the forum.

thanks for your help explaining this in detail.

The only way is probably to disable the search plugin for EasyDiscuss so that the search result only yields result from EasyBlog

Thanks, Mark totally appreciate the explanation.

I found, "EasyDiscuss - Search Discussion Module" very handy in filling the gap for searches made on the forum directly.

That helps, as we can strategically place this module inside the forum.
This way, a member could search the forums without having duplicate content... Nice & Easy- Solve!

The only and last dilemma that I can find is that it will only search posts that were created directly in forums or the easyblog post was assigned a category. Meaning, if a post was created in easyblog, then comments are funneled over to easydiscuss, but they are not immediately assigned a category. The next step would be to jump into easydiscuss to set a category, correct?

Unless there an easier way?

Perhaps, there a way to have categories in easyblog, populate over to easydiscuss; assuming the categories match?