[kodacollider]

Hello. I am trying to customize my bbPress installation, and I want to make some edits to a template file (i.e. /plugins/bbpress/includes/topics/template.php). I don’t want to edit the core file, however, as it may be overwritten by plugin updates?

I’ve tried placing a copy of this into my child theme’s /bbpress/ folder, as well as a /bbpress/includes/topics/ folder in my child theme, and neither seemed to work.

Is there a safe way I can edit this file, or is my only option to edit the core file?

Thanks.

[Robkk]

Well you cannot modify the functions in the template.php by copying over the file like the file in the bbPress default theme, which is in wp-content\plugins\bbpress\templates\default

To customize the code in template.php you would have to filter the code. Paste any new functions you create with the filters from the template.php file into a functions.php file in your child theme or in a custom functionality plugin.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_filter

https://codex.bbpress.org/step-by-step-guide-to-setting-up-a-bbpress-forum-part-5/

[Subrata Sarkar]

Thanks Robkk! This worked perfectly for me 🙂