Limited Support
Our support team is currently on holiday from December 25, 2025 to January 7, 2026, and replies may be delayed during this period.
We appreciate your patience and understanding while our team is away. Thank you for being part of the wpForo community!
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! 🎄
I was trying to override the template buddypress.php to change the text Forum from Buddypress Profile page. I tried adding as given below to override using child theme but I didn't see any changes. So am I doing it right?
I copied wpforo/wpf-includes/integration/buddypress.php
added this to wp-content/themes/onepress-child/wpforo/wpf-includes/integration/buddypress.php
I opened the file buddypress.php and chanced the word Forum in Line no 57 but still I don't see any changes.
'name' => __( 'Community', 'wpforo' ),
Please let me know if there is other way of doing this.
Note: I tried changing this in WpForo files and works perfectly. When I try to override using child theme this fails to show up.
Hi @writetoyogen,
this cannot be reached by doing such customization. You should add the following code in your current active theme functions.php file:
Don't forget to change the red mark code before using.
function my_custom_buddypress_forum_menu_name($translation, $text, $domain){
if( $domain == 'wpforo' ) {
$backtrace = wp_debug_backtrace_summary();
if( strpos(strtolower($backtrace), 'wpf_forums_component->setup_nav') !== false ){
if( strtolower($text) == 'forums' ) $translation = 'Community';
}
}
return $translation;
}
add_filter('gettext', 'my_custom_buddypress_forum_menu_name', 10, 3);
