[jralston]

I’ve made edits to the core bbpress files – then realized I need to copy the templates in order to not have those edits overwritten when I upgrade. Core files I edited are: archive-forum.php and single-forum.php in my themes folder.

1 – Will those 2 get overwritten?
2 – If so, when I copy in content-archive-forum.php, content-single-forum.php and content-archive-topic. They do not have any effect on the bbpress display. I thought copying those files into theme folder bbpress would look at those files first?

[Stephen Edgar]

Yes, they will get overwritten and details on what to copy and where to copy them to can be found here:
https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/

[jralston]

Yes – I’ve seen this page you recommended and was very excited to get started… but when I copy over those templates into my theme folder they do not take effect. I make changes to those newly copied templates and those changes are not reflected on the bbpress pages.
As I understand it:
-content-archive-forum.php will be seen instead of archive-forum.php
-content-single-forum.php will be seen instead of single-forum.php

But it’s not. Help? Where am I going wrong?

[koendb]

Did you copy the files to YOURTHEME/bbpress?

Just leave the name of the files the way they used to be.

[jralston]

Yes. I am trying to use the full template – not template part – so I copied the files into the root of my theme as it says to do here:
The “extras” directory contains optional root level page templates, to make life a little easier when customizing; copy any you want to use or modify into the root of your theme. eg. /wp-content/themes/%your-theme%/

I did not rename the files.