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I’m needing to do some fairly extreme customization for a single group and not sure about the best way to get there. For instance, I need to completely replace the div#item-header-content in the group header. Approaches I’ve considered:
• Add a conditional in group-header.php (seems clunky, but straightforward)
• use javascript to replace the default html with the desired html (seems unreliable)

Is there a way to do this in a plugin-ish way, leaving the theme file alone? I can’t see how to remove elements using the action hooks, but I’m hoping…

Thanks for any advice you can give,

-David