Title: Child-theme/customizing a non-conditional function'ed theme
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Child-theme/customizing a non-conditional function'ed theme

 *  [alturic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alturic/)
 * (@alturic)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-themecustomizing-a-non-conditional-functioned-theme/)
 * Hey guys, so I tend to heavily edit themes to my needs whether it’s stylesheets,
   function additions or actually getting into the core files of themes and since
   some of the deep files aren’t child-theme compatible I’m curious how you guys
   handle customizing theme(s) that only have basic child-theme customizations (
   i.e. the loop stuff really) and still being able to easily update the theme without
   having to re-do a ton of work?
 * Do most of you guys customize and then wait for major release updates and then
   worry about having to do touch-ups or?
 * I suppose I should add, I don’t mean adding new functions, but rather changing
   existing functions. I know I could just change it in the parent theme but obviously
   that gets overwritten when you update the theme.

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 *  [stephencottontail](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stephencottontail/)
 * (@stephencottontail)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-themecustomizing-a-non-conditional-functioned-theme/#post-5147653)
 * If the theme author didn’t make a function conditional, there isn’t always a 
   whole lot that can be done. If the function is hooked into an action or filter
   via `add_action` or `add_filter`, you can unhook the parent theme’s functions
   using `remove_action` or `remove_filter` and then substitute your child theme’s
   functions instead. Another option is to make a copy of `header.php` or whatever
   PHP file calls the non-conditional function into your child theme and replace
   the call to the parent theme’s non-conditional function with a function defined
   by your child theme.

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