[wp-hackers] Child theme functions.php & processing order

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On 11/12/09 15:36, Demetris wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 3:32 AM, Doug Stewart<zamoose at gmail.com>  wrote:
>    
>> Howdy all. I need a gentle shove in the right direction on this one.
>>
>> When processing a child theme, which ends up getting executed by WordPress
>> first, the child or the parent functions.php?  And, parallel to this, if I
>> have action or filter hooks registered in the parent, what's the best way to
>> ensure that my child theme can override/alter the parent's functions?
>>
>>      
> Answering to the first question:
>
> The child’s functions.php is executed first.
>
> I would expect it to be the other way around.  (But I have no idea if
> it matters. For example, when both parent and child register one
> function or filter each to the same hook, the order can be adapted
> with the priority argument. But probably there are scenarios that I’m
> missing.)
>
> Cheers!
>
> Demetris
> http://op111.net/
>    

I found this related article : 
http://venutip.com/content/right-way-override-theme-functions
And here's the related codex page : 
http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development#Theme_Functions_File

They're loaded from /wp-settings.php around lines 669-672...

> // Load functions for active theme.
> if ( TEMPLATEPATH !== STYLESHEETPATH && file_exists(STYLESHEETPATH . 
> '/functions.php') )
>     include(STYLESHEETPATH . '/functions.php');
> if ( file_exists(TEMPLATEPATH . '/functions.php') )
>     include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/functions.php');
Where TEMPLATEPATH is the parent template's path and STYLESHEETPATH is 
the child template's path (I think :-) )

So, if you have a function in your child template's functions.php that 
has the same name as one from the parent's functions.php, I guess the 
one from the parent is the one that will be used unless you use the 
remove_action() function as Ian suggested.  There's more detail in that 
related article.

I thought it didn't even use the functions.php from the parent if there 
was a functions.php in the child template directory, but I see now that 
I was wrong.

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