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Replacing a function in child theme’s functions.php

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Cedric Victor
Started · Latest reply by Greg Priday

Hi all,

In my child theme, I’m trying to have my childfunctions.php file replace some of the code from the Vantage theme’s functions.php file. How would I do that for this particular piece of code :

/**
 * Register widgetized area and update sidebar with default widgets
 *
 * @since vantage 1.0
 */
function vantage_widgets_init() {
	register_sidebar( array(
		'name' => __( 'Sidebar', 'vantage' ),
		'id' => 'sidebar-1',
		'before_widget' => '',
		'after_widget' => '',
		'before_title' => '',
		'after_title' => '',
	) );
	register_sidebar( array(
		'name' => __( 'Footer', 'vantage' ),
		'id' => 'sidebar-footer',
		'before_widget' => '',
		'after_widget' => '',
		'before_title' => '',
		'after_title' => '',
	) );
	register_sidebar( array(
		'name' => __( 'Header', 'vantage' ),
		'id' => 'sidebar-header',
		'before_widget' => '',
		'after_widget' => '',
		'before_title' => '',
		'after_title' => '',
	) );
}
add_action( 'widgets_init', 'vantage_widgets_init' );

I have tried using add_action and remove_action and obviously something’s amiss…

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3
  1. Greg Priday Staff

    I should have made those functions pluggable, but there’s a work around for this. Disclaimer: I haven’t checked any of the following code.

    function vantage_child_init(){
    remove_action( 'widgets_init', 'vantage_widgets_init' );
}
add_action('init', 'vantage_child_init');
function vantage_child_widgets_init() {
   // Your own stuff here
}
add_action( 'widgets_init', 'vantage_child_widgets_init' );

    Basically the problem is that the child theme’s functions.php is included before the parent theme’s functions.php. So if you call remove_action in the child theme, it needs to be at a point after the parent theme has added the action. Throwing it in an init function does the trick.

  2. Cedric Victor

    And it works! Thank you for the quick response!

  3. Greg Priday Staff

    Any time Cedric :)

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