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That was my bad. I was copying the updated template files to the /templates folder instead of the ?front-end-pm folder of my child theme.. oops! 🙂

It’s working perfectly now.

I think I’ve got just about all of the items above taken care of now. I’m going to mark this issue resolved.

Thank you again for all your help, Shamim!

I bought the Pro version (mainly for the support), but most of what I’m doing right now has been in the “regular” version. Right now, I don’t need the added functionality of the Pro version, altho that may change in the future. Overall, I’m very happy with your plugin.

I’m currently in the process of doing an update on my site and Front End PM is a central part of that update (replacing the existing PM plugin that I was using). In general, I have been able to make all of the styling changes that I want (to make it fit in with the style on the rest of my site), but some of the verbiage changes I want to make are outside the /template folder.

As for the <h2> tags that you can’t find – that’s because they aren’t currently there. I was wanting to add them to make the appearance on those pages consistent with the other pages in the plugin. The other pages have an <h2> header at the top of the page – but the message box, announcement page, and directory page do not.

Thanks for the placeholder code. I’ll give it a try and report back.

Steve

Hi Shamin,

Here is a list of the changes I’d like to make in my child theme. I figure it’s best to have them all in one place. Hopefully you can help me with these. Thanks in advance!!

Steve

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In the message box:

add a leading space to the unread counts for messages and announcements
“Message Box (1)” and “Announcement (1)”
instead of
“Message Box(1)” and “Announcement(1)”

Add an <h2> tag that says “Message Box”

On the New Message screen:

Change the placeholder text on the To: field to “ENter a recipient here”

Change the placeholder text on the Subject field to “ENter a subject here”

add placeholder text to the Message textarea:
“Enter your message here”

Change “Add new field” to “Attach a file”

Change the text on the Send button to “Send” instead of “Send Message”

Change “No file selected” to “No file(s) selected”

On the reply screen:

Change the text on the Reply button to “Send” instead of “Reply”

On the Settings screen:

Add placeholder text to the field that says “Click in this field to block a user”

Change the button text to “Save” instead of “Save Changes”

On the Announcement page:

Add an <h2> tag that says “Announcements”

On the Directory page:

Add an <h2> tag that says “Member Directory”

Is there a recommended way for modifying the other plugin files, so that things won’t get overwritten during an update?

Perfect – works great! Thank you so much for your help!

What other elements of this plugin can I modify in the child theme like this? Or is it just the files in the /templates folder? CSS files, maybe?

Thanks for the quick reply, shamim.

So, just a couple more quick questions:

– Should the complete plugin still be installed in /wp-test/wp-content/plugins/ (so that it can be used with any installed theme)?

– Should /wp-test/wp-content/themes/spacious-child/front-end-pm/ only contain “viewmessage.php” (and any other files to be changed in the child them only) without all of the other subfolders, etc?