Temporarily override a global setting using some PHP code in a template.

I’m bringing up an online storefront on my existing Newspaper8 site using EDD. The way EDD works it only lets me use the default page style from Newspaper8, so I have had to create a child theme and create single-download.php to make it look like I want.

I am able to tweak this template to override everything I want to disable (the social share, the “Related Articles”, ads, etc.) using the template and overriding the short code for ads and adding a simple conditional based on the post type ‘download’.

I also want to override the “more articles” slider element so it does not show up on posts of type ‘download’. While digging through the code I found a method td_options::update_temp() that lets me do exactly what I want by just adding a single line to the template. However, that method is documented with a “deprecated” warning not to use it. This solution is just so simple:

td_options::update_temp('tds_more_articles_on_post_pages_enable','no');

So my question is if there is any other approved official way to override a setting for my post type this way?

The other option I have is to copy the includes/wp_booster/td_more_article_box.php file into my child theme and add a one-line change to add the conditional there, but that just makes for more long-term maintenance work for me on every theme update.

That is not my experience. I need to explicitly turn off that setting for the post type ‘download’ or the more articles slider comes in as I scroll the page.

So my question stands: is there some official way to locally suppress a global setting from my template like the update_temp() function does, or is the only official way to copy and edit the more articles PHP file in my child theme?

I would request that the deprecated status of the update_temp() be lifted, and it be kept as official for such purposes. It is much simpler in this case.

Thanks!