ok, so the first bbpress file (there will be another for replies) that we need to filter is :
incudes/topics/templates.php
if you open and look at the file on line 2425 you’ll find the function that does the edit topic link.
Within this is a function that bbpress uses to let us filter parameters (called bbp_parse_args)
it looks like this
// Parse arguments against default values
$r = bbp_parse_args( $args, array(
'id' => 0,
'link_before' => '',
'link_after' => '',
'edit_text' => esc_html__( 'Edit', 'bbpress' )
), 'get_topic_edit_link' );
you’ll see the word ‘Edit’ is contained in the ‘edit_text’ parameter, so it is this that we need to amend.
we can use a filter to change what this says, so we don’t need to amend that file- so this code put in your child theme functions file
add_filter ('bbp_before_get_topic_edit_link_parse_args' , 'my_edit_topic_filter', 10 , 1 ) ;
function my_edit_topic_filter ($args) {
$args['edit_text'] = 'this' ;
return $args ;
}
will change ‘EDIT’ to ‘THIS’
The parameter is effectively output on line 2455 in
$retval = $r['link_before'] . '<a href="' . esc_url( $uri ) . '">' . $r['edit_text'] . '</a>' . $r['link_after'];
so if $r[‘edit_text’] outputs the icon, then you are on the way. If the icon is an image, then using html img etc. in the function above should be good.
let me know that you make progress with this approach – or come back.
If you fix that one, I’ll help you work out the rest 🙂
