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Previous response edited to correct

never write code whilst your other half is waiting to go out !

ok, this works

function remove_sep ($args) {
$args['before'] = '' ;
return $args ;
}

add_filter ('bbp_before_get_forum_subscribe_link_parse_args', 'remove_sep') ;

On your larger point, there are a lot of resources, but it takes a lot of practice to get good at PHP, and to understand how any plugin works which is the size that bbpress is.

Generally it is quicker to ask a question on here, than spend hours delving into bbpress. But if you start wanting to really tailor it, then the step by step guides and other documentation will try and get you into how to go about finding code within bbpress.

I know nothing of php 18months ago (I’m just a humble bbpress user – I didn’t write any of it!), and now have several plugins for bbpress to add functionality, so it is quire do-able.

I’ve tried to get much of my learning into the documentation, so have a look round

Codex

No problem !

function remove_sep ($args) {
$args['before'] = ' ' ;
return $args ;
}

add_filter ('bbp_before_get_topic_subscribe_link_parse_args', 'remove_sep') ;

  is the code for space, so if you want 2 spaces put

$args['before'] = '  ' ;

ah, found the function that the ajax call is doing.

this code works on my test site

function remove_sep ($args) {
$args['before'] = '  ' ;
return $args ;
}

add_filter ('bbp_before_get_topic_subscribe_link_parse_args', 'remove_sep') ;

remove_action( 'bbp_ajax_subscription', array( 'BBP_Default', 'ajax_subscription' ) );

add_action ( 'bbp_ajax_subscription', 'new_ajax_subscription');

function new_ajax_subscription() {

		// Bail if subscriptions are not active
		if ( ! bbp_is_subscriptions_active() ) {
			bbp_ajax_response( false, esc_html__( 'Subscriptions are no longer active.', 'bbpress' ), 300 );
		}

		// Bail if user is not logged in
		if ( ! is_user_logged_in() ) {
			bbp_ajax_response( false, esc_html__( 'Please login to subscribe.', 'bbpress' ), 301 );
		}

		// Get user and topic data
		$user_id = bbp_get_current_user_id();
		$id      = ! empty( $_POST['id']   ) ? intval( $_POST['id'] )         : 0;
		$type    = ! empty( $_POST['type'] ) ? sanitize_key( $_POST['type'] ) : 'post';

		// Bail if user cannot add favorites for this user
		if ( ! current_user_can( 'edit_user', $user_id ) ) {
			bbp_ajax_response( false, esc_html__( 'You do not have permission to do this.', 'bbpress' ), 302 );
		}

		// Get the object
		if ( 'post' === $type ) {
			$object = get_post( $id );
		}

		// Bail if topic cannot be found
		if ( empty( $object ) ) {
			bbp_ajax_response( false, esc_html__( 'Subscription failed.', 'bbpress' ), 303 );
		}

		// Bail if user did not take this action
		if ( ! isset( $_POST['nonce'] ) || ! wp_verify_nonce( $_POST['nonce'], 'toggle-subscription_' . $object->ID ) ) {
			bbp_ajax_response( false, esc_html__( 'Are you sure you meant to do that?', 'bbpress' ), 304 );
		}

		// Take action
		$status = bbp_is_user_subscribed( $user_id, $object->ID )
			? bbp_remove_user_subscription( $user_id, $object->ID )
			:    bbp_add_user_subscription( $user_id, $object->ID );

		// Bail if action failed
		if ( empty( $status ) ) {
			bbp_ajax_response( false, esc_html__( 'The request was unsuccessful. Please try again.', 'bbpress' ), 305 );
		}

		// Put subscription attributes in convenient array
		$attrs = array(
			'object_id'   => $object->ID,
			'object_type' => $type,
			'user_id'     => $user_id
		);

		// Add separator to topic if favorites is active
		if ( ( 'post' === $type ) && ( bbp_get_topic_post_type() === get_post_type( $object ) ) && bbp_is_favorites_active() ) {
			$attrs['before'] = '  ';
		}

		// Action succeeded
		bbp_ajax_response( true, bbp_get_user_subscribe_link( $attrs, $user_id, false ), 200 );
}

it’s a lot of code to learn.

There are hundreds of filters and actions.

most of it is detective work.

I have bbpress in a folder on my laptop/

I use

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/

as my main tool, it understands all the file types and displays them in a very readable way.

It has a ‘search on files’, so in your case I looked for ‘subscribe’ as this was the word that had the | before it.

that got me to the subscribe link function, which has the ' | ' in it, which got me to the filter

When you came back with it changing when you click, I then searched for ' | ' and found it in the core function.

For the ‘before_xx_parse_args’ and other filter stuff see

Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – part 5