[@jd-fb Participant 6 years, 2 months ago]

Thanks again, Robin!
I’ve successfully used the code above to modify the templates. Woo!

However, one question / comment:
The code you’ve provided for bbp_show_lead_topic doesn’t seem to do anything for me.
I’ve tried:

function custom_bbp_show_lead_topic( $show_lead ) {
  $show_lead[] = 'false'; // The code as shown on https://codex.bbpress.org/bbp_show_lead_topic/
  $show_lead[] = false; // No quotation marks around 'false'
  $show_lead = false;   // no array [] used on $show_lead, no quotation;
  $show_lead = 'false'  // no array, with quotation
  return $show_lead;
}

And none of these seemed to change how the lead topic was displayed.
But, I’ve figured out the templates and I’m getting the results I was hoping for.

Thanks again.

[@jd-fb Participant 6 years, 2 months ago]

Thanks Robin. I previously played with bbp_show_lead_topic, and I couldn’t get it to work (which is why I posted my question above.) I guess I was missing step 2, which is the template.

Question: Do the steps you describe change if I’m developing a plugin, instead of a theme? If I’m correct, the following code should help me (correct?)

correct way to override bbpress templates

[@jd-fb Participant 6 years, 2 months ago]

Thanks for the reply… but I think looking at the theme files only confused me more. (Sorry!)

I’ve taken a look at templates/loop-replies.php that’s built-into the plugin, which (if I understand correctly) is what is used when a user is viewing a topic’s page (in other words http://domain.com/forum/topic/awesomness/). I’m kind of confused as to how it works – near the bottom of this template, it calls another template using bbp_get_template_part( 'loop', 'single-reply' ); – and it does this whether it’s the topic’s content or a reply to the topic.

So, I’m uncertain if I need to modify the WP_Query (or where), or if I should modify the template.

[@jd-fb Participant 6 years, 2 months ago]

I just noticed that this website, bbpress.org, does something similar to what I’m looking for. (Except, I’d remove the avatar and date.)

So, how does that work? I noticed that this site’s theme is called BB’s Parent, but that doesn’t seem to be available to the public (so I can’t check its code 🙁 )

[@jd-fb Participant 6 years, 2 months ago]

I noticed that there is no space before the word “days” in your line here
if ( $last_active < strtotime( '-' . $this->old_topic_age_setting() . 'days' ) ) :

This means that it’ll result in “-1days”, and every example I’ve seen for strtotime() has a space before the word “days”, so ‘-1 days’.

I haven’t used strtotime() a lot so I’m not totally sure, but that one space could make a difference.