[@baldg0at Participant 14 years, 5 months ago]

<i>A couple of questions, does it matter if I do that before or after installing and activating bbpress?</i>

Doesn’t matter

<i>And, should the child theme contain the modified functions.php?</I>

No. Both the functions file in your parent theme and your child theme will load. No need to copy on to the other.

<i>”Copy the files from plugins>bbpress>bbp-themes>bbp-twentyten into your child theme folder.”

Does this mean that you can just dump the whole thing, including subdirectories in, or do certain things go certain places?</i>

You should dump everything as-is, otherwise things will likely break.