Scenario:

I am building my own custom bbpress theme. I started by moving all of the theme files into my current theme and also adding in the needed functions from the functions.php file into my current theme.

problems:

I have copied the /theme/bbpress/ folder into my current theme folder.

It seems that any modifications I make to files within MYTHEME/bbpress/ are not being picked up by bbpress. If I go into the actual plugin folder and modify the files in the theme/bbpress/ folder there, then the changes occur.

–requested solution

Please change the loading structure so that bbpress first checks the active theme for all needed bbpress theme files including those in the bbpress folder. If none are found then default back to the plugin theme directory.

It would almost be like treating the currently active theme as a child theme of bbpress. This would make modifications much easier to maintain, while still being able to safely update bbpress.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 7 months ago]

You’re doing it wrong.

You need to tell bbPress that your theme is going to override the theme compatibility. Sadly we can’t really have that cake and eat it too.

Add this to your functions.php for your theme and it should work exactly like you want it to.

add_theme_support( 'bbpress' );

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 7 months ago]

You’re doing it wrong.

You need to tell bbPress that your theme is going to override the theme compatibility. Sadly we can’t really have that cake and eat it too.

Add this to your functions.php for your theme and it should work exactly like you want it to.

add_theme_support( 'bbpress' );

[@anointed Participant 13 years, 7 months ago]

@JJJ

LOL, I’m an idiot,,,,(should have remembered that from my bp theme days)

Working exactly as expected now.

[@anointed Participant 13 years, 7 months ago]

@JJJ

LOL, I’m an idiot,,,,(should have remembered that from my bp theme days)

Working exactly as expected now.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 7 months ago]

Not an idiot, it’s just new and uncharted territory. I’ve coded a lot of little subtleties into the plugin that will come out as time goes on. Pretty much anything you want to do with it, you should be able to do. If you find a limitation, I want to fix it.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 7 months ago]

Not an idiot, it’s just new and uncharted territory. I’ve coded a lot of little subtleties into the plugin that will come out as time goes on. Pretty much anything you want to do with it, you should be able to do. If you find a limitation, I want to fix it.

[@christopher-jon Member 13 years, 7 months ago]

Follow up question,

What would I be losing if I don’t include the rest of the bbpress related stuff in the child theme functions.php?

[@christopher-jon Member 13 years, 7 months ago]

Follow up question,

What would I be losing if I don’t include the rest of the bbpress related stuff in the child theme functions.php?

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 7 months ago]

Nothing really. It’s mostly for the AJAX of the favorites and subscribe links, which work perfectly fine without it.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 7 months ago]

Nothing really. It’s mostly for the AJAX of the favorites and subscribe links, which work perfectly fine without it.