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1. cognitions
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   Posted 2 years ago #

   Inn the codex, where it explains the new features of WP 3, it says:

   TIP FOR THEME DEVELOPERS. The fact that a child theme’s functions.php is loaded first means that you can make the user functions of your theme pluggable—that is, replaceable by a child theme—by declaring them conditionally. E.g.:

   if (!function_exists('theme_special_nav')) {
       function theme_special_nav() {
           //  Do something.
       }
   }

   However, whenever I try to redeclare a function in a child theme functions.php that is already decalred in the parent theme, I get a fatal error 'Cannot redeclare....etc'.

   This happens whether or not I wrap the redeclared function in
   if (!function_exists

   or not.

   Is the Codex wrong?
   Should I report this as a bug for WP 3?
   Or have I misunderstood?

   I am running WP 3 Beta 2.

   Many thanks.

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