functions.php issue in Twentyten Child Theme

  • Design Locker

    (@design-locker)


    11 years, 6 months ago

    Hello All,

    I am using a twentyten child theme.

    I have a file called functions.php in my child theme folder and all it contains is the following;

    function twentyten_continue_reading_link() {
	return ' <a href="'. get_permalink() . '">' . __( '<div class="moreinfo">More Information <span class="meta-nav">&raquo;</span></div>', 'twentyten' ) . '</a>';
}

    I use the above code as I want to change the wording “continue reading” to “more information”.

    No here’s the strange thing. Sometimes (but not all the time), the site crashes with the following error;

    “Cannot redeclare twentyten_continue_reading_link()”

    I just re-upload my functions file and it works again even though it is the exact same file with the exact same code.

    I read somewhere that my child theme’s functions should have a unique prefix? Unfortunately I do not understand this.

    Any suggestions would be very welcome.

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  • Moderator keesiemeijer

    (@keesiemeijer)

    11 years, 6 months ago

    I think that is because the function in the parent theme doesn’t check if it allready exists (in the child theme):

    if ( !function_exists( 'twentyten_continue_reading_link' ) ) {
function twentyten_continue_reading_link() {...}
}

    Look here how you can alter the continue reading link from your child theme: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-continue-reading-in-twentyten

    Thread Starter Design Locker

    (@design-locker)

    11 years, 6 months ago

    Hi keesiemeijer,

    Thanks for the reply.

    I created the custom field “cont_read” I treid the code suggested by alchymyth in the link above but unfortunately did not work for me.

    The excerpt area just goes blank apart from the image and title.

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