careyestes10

I meant to append this to the last post. Here is the resource I used:

https://www.venutip.com/content/right-way-override-theme-functions

The only tweak I really made was to remove the priority parameter. Priority is 10 by default, and I could not get the override unless the remove_action() was set to 10. There is probably a more elegant way of stacking the priority.

This is the workaround I used:

// Remove the dropdown function from the parent
add_action('init','remove_parent_mce_dropdown');

function remove_parent_mce_dropdown() {
    remove_action('tiny_mce_before_init','tuts_mce_before_init'); // The first parameter is the phase, second is the function you want to override
}

// Now write your new function, and re-instatiate it through add_filter()
function new_mce_dropdowns( $settings ) {  

    $style_formats = array(
        array(
            'title' => 'Button',
            'selector' => 'a',
            'classes' => 'button'
            ),
        array(
            'title' => 'Image Frame',
            'selector' => 'img',
            'classes' => 'frame',
        ),
        array(
            'title' => 'Map Link',
            'selector' => 'a',
            'classes' => 'view_map',
        ),
    );  

    // Merge old & new styles
    $settings['style_formats_merge'] = true;

    $settings['style_formats'] = json_encode( $style_formats );
    return $settings;
}
add_filter( 'tiny_mce_before_init', 'new_mce_dropdowns' );

@lilianev, that should work totally random stranger…:)

I am also having this issue. I cannot merge the child dropdown styles with the parent, OR overwrite the function from the parent.