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New installation of bbpress, using the bootstrap template. I see on your FAQ that this means a hook is not enabled in the template.

Given that I’m new to WordPress AND bbpress, can you give me an idea of what hook I should be looking for? And maybe where to look? Is this an edit the functions.php file type of a solution? I can do that.

Not great at writing my own functions, though.

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