Title: Cannot edit child theme
Last modified: January 4, 2018

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# Cannot edit child theme

 *  [fcariboni](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fcariboni/)
 * (@fcariboni)
 * [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-edit-child-theme/)
 * Hi,
 * I’m having trouble editing the child theme.
 * Modify to the style sheet work perfectly, but in the php files example: navigation.
   php in the inc folder it doesn’t work.
 * How can I do?
 * Thanks so much
    Federico
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fcannot-edit-child-theme%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Theme Author [Tom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/edge22/)
 * (@edge22)
 * [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-edit-child-theme/#post-9835924)
 * Hi there,
 * What kind of changes are you wanting to do? You should only overwrite files in
   the root folder.
 * However, each function is wrapped in a `function_exists()` function, so you can
   copy the entire function and make changes to it in your functions.php file.

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