Functions.php in child theme

  • ksteingrandt

    (@ksteingrandt)


    12 years, 2 months ago

    Hi all

    I am working with a child theme of twenty eleven and everything is hunky dory, except the functions.php file.

    The problem is that if I put my modified functions.php into my child theme’s folder, the site breaks. If I put that exact same modified functions.php in the original twentyeleven folder, the site works fine (don’t worry – I’ve kept a copy of the original twenty eleven functions.php!!).

    What gives? Why is my site breaking when I put functions.php into my child theme folder, but works fine in the original twenty eleven folder? Is there a conflict between the original twenty eleven functions.php and the one in my child theme? Is there something I need to comment out?

    I should mention that I’m pretty much a php/Wordpress noob 🙂

Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total)
  • Michael

    (@alchymyth)

    12 years, 2 months ago

    the site breaks

    what is the error message?

    what code do you have in functions.php of the child theme?

    ( please use the http://pastebin.com/ – see: http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Posting_Code )

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    12 years, 2 months ago

    My guess is that you’re trying to rewrite a function that isn’t within a conditional if... endif or you’re trying to redefine a constant instead of adding to the appropriate filter.

    EDIT: Or it could just be a missing opening <?php tag.

    Moderator Jan Dembowski

    (@jdembowski)

    Forum Moderator and Brute Squad

    12 years, 2 months ago

    (don’t worry – I’ve kept a copy of the original twenty eleven functions.php!!)

    You’re not copying the original twentyeleven/functions.php into the child theme directory are you?

    If you are don’t do that: you only need to put new functions in the child theme copy.

    Thread Starter ksteingrandt

    (@ksteingrandt)

    12 years, 2 months ago

    I think Jan may have nailed it…I’m putting the entire functions.php (with my changes mixed in with the original code) in the child theme’s folder.

    Given that info, would I now just find the lines that I changed, put them in a new file, name that functions.php and put that into the child theme’s folder?

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    12 years, 2 months ago

    I’m putting the entire functions.php (with my changes mixed in with the original code) in the child theme’s folder.

    Nooo! Never do that. You only add new/amended functions to your child theme’s functions.php file.

    Find the functions that you changed and add just these changed functions to your child.

Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total)
  • The topic ‘Functions.php in child theme’ is closed to new replies.