Remove functions from child theme

  • raggie

    (@raggie)


    11 years, 6 months ago

    Hi,

    I’m having problems removing functions from a .php file from the parent theme. For example I want to remove the footer. The code in the file is

    function thinkup_input_copyright() {

global $thinkup_footer_copyright;

	printf( __( 'Developed by %1$s. Powered by %2$s.', 'lan-thinkupthemes' ) , '<a href="//www.thinkupthemes.com/" target="_blank">Think Up Themes Ltd</a>', '<a href="//www.wordpress.org/" target="_blank">Wordpress</a>'); 

}

    I have tried a lot of things but nothing has worked yet. I have the same file name and same folder structure etc..

    In another file, I want to overwrite a function but I don’t know how to. I tried to copy the parent php file to my child theme and changed the things I wanted to change but then I got this error:

    Fatal error: Cannot redeclare...

    Thank you for your help!

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  • Matt Knowles

    (@aestheticdesign)

    11 years, 6 months ago

    Instead of changing the function, try changing the theme’s footer.php template file. In your child theme’s footer.php, you can remove the call to the function.

    Michael

    (@alchymyth)

    11 years, 6 months ago

    what theme are you using?

    Thread Starter raggie

    (@raggie)

    11 years, 6 months ago

    Thanks aestheticdesign, that worked for the footer part. Still having problem doing pretty much the same thing for the featured areas in my theme, in the header.php i found the following code:

    <?php thinkup_input_homepagesection(); ?>

    I tried to change it to e.g. thinkup_input_homepagesection1 and also change it in the other php file where the code is:

    function thinkup_input_homepagesection() {

    But I get “Fatal error: Call to undefined function thinkup_input_homepagesection1()” so obviously this is not the right way to do it?

    alchymyth, I am using the minamaze theme.

    Michael

    (@alchymyth)

    11 years, 6 months ago

    as any solutions to your question will be very theme specific, please try posting your question in the theme’s forum at https://wordpress.org/support/theme/minamaze/ to possibly attract the theme’s author’s attention.

    Thread Starter raggie

    (@raggie)

    11 years, 6 months ago

    alright! Thank you

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