Title: use an include in functions.php?
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# use an include in functions.php?

 *  Resolved [msummers](https://wordpress.org/support/users/msummers/)
 * (@msummers)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/use-an-include-in-functionsphp/)
 * Can I use an include in my functions.php file? This would really let me modularize
   some of my code if I can.

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 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/use-an-include-in-functionsphp/#post-7662564)
 * Sure. I do it all the time to keep things “clean”. Use “require once” rather 
   than “include”.
 *  Thread Starter [msummers](https://wordpress.org/support/users/msummers/)
 * (@msummers)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/use-an-include-in-functionsphp/#post-7662656)
 * Thank you – I don’t know why I didn’t think of this months ago!

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