Title: Please warap your functions
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Please warap your functions

 *  [Jan Koester](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dasmaeh/)
 * (@dasmaeh)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-warap-your-functions/)
 * Please wrap all your function in
 *     ```
       if(! function_exists('function_name'){
       ...
       }
       ```
   
 * This makes it possible to overwrite existing functions like the footer function
   by child themes.
 * Thanks!

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-warap-your-functions/)
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