Child theme and requiring at file functions.php

Hi there,

While doing this would be useful is a few ways, it would also cause massive issues if we ever make changes/additions/removals in our theme-functions.php file. This would result in possible fatal errors, which wouldn’t be good.

What exactly are you wanting to change in that file?

Hi Tom,
function require_once is userfull for including PHP functions and classes because of it guards that file will not be loaded twice – second load of file with function of same name cause Fattal error.

It makes sense to make change requiring of files what contain only functions. That will reduce cause of massive issues like you described.

I don’t know if there is loading any other file with just functions. I know just what I inspected and there wasn’t much.
In my case I would like to change line 90 of file functions.php to require_once $theme_dir . '/inc/theme-functions.php'; For my case it’s enought. I would like to follow first thought that solution should be as universal as it can be to help all others with edditing just small part of code if they needed.

Best regards,
ShippeR

My edit of code in file theme-functions.php is just changing of all heading type from <h2> to <h3> at function generate_get_the_title_parameters() because of styling.

Hi there,

the theme is filled with Filter Hooks. So you shouldn’t need to overwrite the entire function. For that requirement you can use the generate_get_the_title_parameters filter like so:

add_filter( 'generate_get_the_title_parameters', 'custom_archive_title_tag' );
function custom_archive_title_tag( $params ) {

    if ( ! is_singular() ) {
        $params = array(
            'before' => sprintf(
                '<h3 class="entry-title"%2$s><a href="%1$s" rel="bookmark">',
                esc_url( get_permalink() ),
                'microdata' === generate_get_schema_type() ? ' itemprop="headline"' : ''
            ),
            'after' => '</a></h3>',
        );
    }
    return $params;
}

Thank you very much!

You’re welcome