Title: ongoing issue using weaver
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# ongoing issue using weaver

 *  [edwardsmark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/edwardsmark/)
 * (@edwardsmark)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ongoing-issue-using-weaver/)
 * wow – this nasty error came back when i switched to the “twewnty-ten” weaver 
   theme.
 *  PHP Fatal error: Cannot redeclare _checkactive_widgets() (previously declared
   in /var/blah.blah/wp-content/themes/twentyten-multiweaver/functions.php:853) 
   in /var/blah.blah/wp-content/themes/twentyten/functions.php on line 506
 * ideas?
 * i posted this before and thought i had it fixed. DARN IT.

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 *  [David Sader](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dsader/)
 * (@dsader)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ongoing-issue-using-weaver/#post-1645394)
 * To me it looks like a problem with the child theme functions.php declaring the
   same function already present in the parent theme’s functions.php. When creating
   a child theme, one can straight up replace any file in the parent folder by creating
   a file of the same name in the child folder – EXCEPT the functions.php. The functions.
   php of the parent theme will always be included so functions.php of the child
   needs only declare additional functions. For twentyten, some functions can be
   replaced by a child `if ( ! function_exists(...)` wraps the parent functions 
   but not others.
 * I just looked more closely at the twentyten functions.php I have just downloaded
   from:
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/twentyten](http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/twentyten)
 * The twentyten functions.php doesn’t have the _checkactive_widgets function and
   only has 484 lines. So something isn’t right with your parent theme. Looks like
   you’ve added the same function to both parent and child, instead of just to the
   child.
 * I recommend installing a fresh copy of twentyten.
 *  Thread Starter [edwardsmark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/edwardsmark/)
 * (@edwardsmark)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ongoing-issue-using-weaver/#post-1645404)
 * david –
 * may i ask exactly which one(s) needs to be installed, and in which order? there
   supposedly is a parent and child but i cannot figure out which ones are really
   required.
 * at this point i assume i should just remove anything that says “weaver” and start
   over??
 * i installed a 2010 and that seemed to give a different set of options. i suspect
   that was really meant for the single user environment.
 * i thought i had all this working already!
 * thank you ever so much,
    mark
 *  [David Sader](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dsader/)
 * (@dsader)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ongoing-issue-using-weaver/#post-1645408)
 * twentyten is the parent. There is only one twentyten and it is the default theme
   for single and multisite:
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/twentyten](http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/twentyten)
 * To learn more about Child themes in general go to the codex:
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes](http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes)
 * To learn more about troubleshooting Weaver read their forums:
 * [http://wpweaver.info/forum/](http://wpweaver.info/forum/)

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 * In: [Networking WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite/)
 * 3 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [David Sader](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dsader/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ongoing-issue-using-weaver/#post-1645408)
 * Status: not resolved

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