how to remove an action via functions.php in a child theme?

remove_action ('wp_print_styles', 'load_fonts');

Also… Just an observation…

Styles shouldn’t be declared in a wp_print_styles action. It should be declared using wp_enqueue_scripts.

See this article for more…

thanks but doesn’t seem to work. font is loaded. I’ve read that child is read first. so there’s no action to be removed.

and thanks for the wp_enqueue_scripts suggestion. Waipoua theme of Elma Studio is using that.

Bit of a cludge, but couldn’t you add an action in the child functions.php to dequeue the style with a lower priority than the original action? E.g.

function unload_fonts() {
          wp_dequeue_style( 'googleFonts');
       }

add_action('wp_print_styles', 'unload_fonts', 11);

This is untested btw

What version of WordPress are you using?

If I am not mistaken the parent theme should use the following construction to make it easy for child themes to override the parent’s load_fonts function:

if( ! function_exists('load_fonts') {
function load_fonts() {
          wp_register_style('googleFonts', 'https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=PT+Sans:400,700,400italic|Oswald');
          wp_enqueue_style( 'googleFonts');
       }
add_action('wp_print_styles', 'load_fonts');
}

By checking for the existence of the load_fonts function and only defining this function if none is found a parent theme can be prevented from loading it’s own version of the function while allowing a child theme to override it. Since the parent theme isn’t using this construct, the proposed solution from ryanajarret seems to me as a nice hack to unqueue the loading of the fonts without having to change the parent theme.

thanks guys! this works fine. I am using the code of ryanajarrett and the google font is not loaded.

indeed Bjorn, I don’t want to tweak the original theme.