[Solved] wpForo advanced theme customization  

Hello,

According to wpForo documentation about customizing themes,

You can edit these files in an upgrade-safe way using overrides. For example, copy the certain or all files of /classic/ folder into a folder within your current active WordPress theme named /wpforo/, keeping the same file structure.

So I tried for example to customize the post.php template by copying it into

wp-content/themes/yourtheme/wpforo/layouts/1/post.php

as documented and this works. So far, so good.

What if I wanted to customize a template other than forum.php, topic.php or post.php? For instance, if I wanted to customize members.php in an upgrade-safe way, could I copy the entire /classic/ folder onto another theme (let's call it /mytheme123/) and do the modifications there?

In other words, as well as having the folder structure

wp-content/plugins/wpforo/wpf-themes/classic/

I would also have

wp-content/plugins/wpforo/wpf-themes/mytheme123/

which is where I would perform the customizations.

Presumably, next time wpForo is upgraded it would be a matter of saving the contents of this /mytheme123/ folder somewhere else, upgrade and then copy back the /mytheme123/  folder.

I do realize that, should there be any changes made by you guys to one or more files that are currently in the /classic/ folder, those changes would not be reflected in the customized theme, and that I would have to perform some checks to see what, if anything, was changed.

Do you see any issues with this approach, or do you have a better suggestion?

Thanks

fawp