Fatal error: Cannot redeclare leaf_setup()

  • Resolved iambob

    (@iambob)


    12 years, 2 months ago

    Greetings,

    I worked on some changes to my child theme on my sandbox site, which involved making a change to theme-functions.php (repercussion understood) … this worked fine. When I uploaded this file to my live site it produced this error message:

    “Fatal error: Cannot redeclare leaf_setup() (previously declared in ..leaf/includes/theme-functions.php:33) in includes/theme-functions.php on line 66”

    Q1: What’s this about?

    Q2: Is it good practice to activate/return to Leaf before making child changes, then re-activate the child?

    Appreciate any feedback/solution ideas … so far not finding anything that helps (site currently running without the font change).
    Bob

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  • Thread Starter iambob

    (@iambob)

    12 years, 2 months ago

    Hold on! That was last night. This request can be disregarded. Some more notes below for anyone interested to read further observations (&/or ponderings of a hack-coder!):

    Work also involved changes to functions.php, template-functions.php and template-tags.php, all of which I removed just to get back to a viewable web site.

    Just after this post, I kept in place the original leaf/functions.php and only replaced template-functions.php and template-tags.php … and now the site looks exactly how I want it to! (????)

    I think I was following some inaccurate information about (un)necessary changes (an add_filter) to functions.php, and this triggered the error (i.e., confused instructions: double?).

    Curious tho, that functions.php in my child folder requires the removal (via renaming) of functions.php in ../leaf root (unlike footer.php and home.php: original files in place with customized files in child root – provide results as expected).

    So, all is well … other than the ongoing subtle pressure to find time to learn how to code properly!

    Enjoy your day,
    Bob

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    12 years, 2 months ago

    Curious tho, that functions.php in my child folder requires the removal (via renaming) of functions.php in ../leaf root

    It doesn’t. In fact, you should never delete or edit any files in the parent theme. Sounds like you needed to create a new, custom, function in your child theme instead of trying to re-use one that was pre-defined in the parent theme.

    Thread Starter iambob

    (@iambob)

    12 years, 2 months ago

    Thanks esmi … indeed! Noted and added to the someday (or, if-I-ever-make-money-from-my-plans developer’s) ‘to do’ list!

    Cheers

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