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id say create a custom bbPress forum role

hopefully this guide will help you out.

Custom Capabilities

as for the changing the bbpress count to start from a different number , that might cause some issues..

now that i think about it , since it is just for looks you could use math and just add 1 to the already post count.

just simple math in PHP.

http://www.plus2net.com/php_tutorial/math-add.php

i say use <?php bbp_topic_reply_count() ?> and use math with it.

this code and where i think you want to modify it should be in loop-single-topic.php

make sure you copy it to your child theme into a folder called bbpress so an update doesnt lose your data.

Hello,

Can you please Elaborate ?

I have ‘<?php bbp_show_lead_topic() ? bbp_topic_reply_count() : bbp_topic_post_count(); ?>’ in loop-single-topic.php. Can you please help how do I subtract 1 from the value ?