Adding widgets to child theme

Resolved FadingMusic
(@fadingmusic)

7 years, 7 months ago
Hello,

I customized the alx-posts and alx-tabs widgets and I would like to use them in my child theme. However, if I upload them both to /child-theme/functions/widgets/, it won’t override those widgets. How can I do this?

Thank you.
- This topic was modified 7 years, 7 months ago by FadingMusic.

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(@bdbrown)

Hi fadingmusic. Sounds like the widgets are still being loaded from the parent theme. Copy the function hu_load() from /functions/init-core.php to your child theme and change the load_template target for the widgets:

function hu_load() {
    // Load theme languages
    load_theme_textdomain( 'hueman', get_stylesheet_directory().'/languages' );

    // Load theme options and meta boxes
    // load_template( get_template_directory() . '/functions/theme-options.php' );
    load_template( get_template_directory() . '/functions/init-meta-boxes.php' );

    // Load custom widgets
    load_template( get_stylesheet_directory() . '/functions/widgets/alx-tabs.php' );
    load_template( get_template_directory() . '/functions/widgets/alx-video.php' );
    load_template( get_stylesheet_directory() . '/functions/widgets/alx-posts.php' );

    // Load dynamic styles
    load_template( get_template_directory() . '/functions/dynamic-styles.php' );

    //Load compatibility plugins functions
    load_template( get_template_directory() . '/functions/plugins-compatibility.php' );
}

Thread Starter

FadingMusic

(@fadingmusic)

7 years, 7 months ago

Hello bdbrown,
That worked perfectly, thank you! 🙂

bdbrown

(@bdbrown)

7 years, 7 months ago

You’re welcome.

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