Amending bbpress templates
bbPress has a number of templates that alter how the forums are displayed, and you can alter these to entirely change how the forums display.
you’ll find these templates at
wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/
The index for the forums starts by using
content-archive-forum.php
If you open this up you will see that it them calls a further template by using the function bbp_get_template_part
<?php bbp_get_template_part( ‘loop’, ‘forums’ ); ?>
(this translates to loop-forums.php)
this in turn calls
<?php bbp_get_template_part( ‘loop’, ‘single-forum’ ); ?>
(this translates to loop-single-forum)
and so on.
If you need to alter a bbpress template, then you should really do this in a child theme, as otherwise theme upgrades will overwrite this.
see https://codex.bbpress.org/functions-files-and-child-themes-explained/ on how to set up a child theme
To alter a template
Create a bbPress folder in your theme:
wp-content/%yourthemename%/bbpress
Where %yourthemename% is the name of your theme.
Then go into
wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/
Copy whatever file(s) you wish to change into the bbPress folder in your theme. bbPress will now use this file instead of the default, and you can amend this file.
