Custom Pro Forms Templates Ignored

Hi Folks,

I’ve saved a slightly modified version of my paypal-registration-form.php to my theme directory, but it’s being ignored. The default is always used: plugins/s2member-pro/includes/templates/forms/paypal-registration-form.php

I have also tried saving a copy within WP_CONTENT_DIR, with no success.

According to this forum post, TEMPLATEPATH and WP_CONTENT_DIR should be viable destinations for custom templates:
http://www.s2member.com/forums/topic/customised-template-for-registration-form/#post-27698

Side note: Wouldn’t STYLESHEETPATH be another good place to search for custom templates for the sake of sites using child themes?

Here are some of my less common configuration items to consider:

• My site has WP configured within a subdirectory.
• I have a custom WP_CONTENT_DIR:
  define( ‘WP_CONTENT_DIR’, $_SERVER[‘DOCUMENT_ROOT’] . ‘/foo/bar’ );
• My active theme is a child theme

Your ideas and guidance are appreciated!

Mahalo!
John

I am also using a child theme and am having issues with customized pro forms. Is there a reason that TEMPLATEPATH is used over STYLESHEETPATH?

Thanks!

STYLESHEETPATH points to the child theme directory, TEMPLATEPATH points to the parent theme. s2member may very well already search STYLESHEETPATH for custom templates, but I don’t know.

Since custom templates within my WP_CONTENT_DIR aren’t being observed, I may have something else interfering.

Hopefully Jason & team can provide clarity here.

There are similar functions to access those child and parent theme directories too:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_stylesheet_directory
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_template_directory

Thank you @John LeBlank and #Tanner Moushey for sharing this observation. Your thread made it possible for me to use a custom template by putting it in the parent theme directory.

So glad you shared your findings