WordPress Ideas » Tag: stylesheetpath - Recent Posts http://wordpress.org/ideas/tags/stylesheetpath WordPress Ideas » Tag: stylesheetpath - Recent Posts en-US Sat, 25 May 2013 05:16:56 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1 Robin174 on "Ability to override included files in child themes" http://wordpress.org/ideas/topic/ability-to-override-included-files-in-child-themes#post-24141 Fri, 01 Feb 2013 11:10:24 +0000 Robin174 24141@http://wordpress.org/ideas/ This is a great idea - are we any closer to it?
Struggling to override 'require_once' and 'define' in parent theme to call a new file in a child theme...

]]> Ian Dunn on "Ability to override included files in child themes" http://wordpress.org/ideas/topic/ability-to-override-included-files-in-child-themes#post-18867 Wed, 02 Mar 2011 19:51:35 +0000 Ian Dunn 18867@http://wordpress.org/ideas/ One of the biggest limitations of child themes right now is that only the child theme's template files are automatically loaded. If you want to override a file that the parent theme includes (e.g., themedir/lib/foo.php) then you have to find the file that calls require_once(TEMPLATEPATH . '/lib/foo.php) and override it to call require_once(STYLESHEETPATH . '/lib/foo.php), and in some cases you have to do that 3 or 4 times until you get to the top of the hierarchy.

It'd be better if there were some kind of wp_require_once() function that would take a path (relative to the theme dir), and then check if there was a child theme file to replace the parent theme one.

function wp_require_once($path)
{
    if( TEMPLATEPATH != STYLESHEETPATH && is_file(STYLESHEETPATH . $path) )
        require_once (STYLESHEETPATH . $path);
    else
        require_once (TEMPLATEPATH . $path);
}

Then theme developers could use wp_require_once('lib/foo.php') instead of require_once(TEMPLATEPATH . 'lib/foo.php'). If a child theme was being used and had a replacement file, WP would load it; otherwise it would load the parent file.

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