Subdirectories in child themes

Hi all,

I’ve got a child theme question for you. I’m using Woothemes for several sites on a Multisite install and have made pretty light modifications to them, keeping the parent files intact by using WP’s child theme functionality. It’s working well with files such as footer.php, header.php, etc. However, I have a very specific need to remove certain widgets from use, and Woothemes keeps the widget functions in /theme-name/includes/widget-name.php or /theme-name/includes/widgets.php. Mirroring this structure and attempting to edit a child file in the appropriate child theme doesn’t seem to have any effect, and I’m wondering if this is by design and/or there’s a way around it.

To sum up, I’d like to modify via the child theme capability a set of widgets that live inside several other directories, keeping the parent directories untouched. Any ideas out there?

As always, thanks for the very helpful WP folks here!

-Jeff