A Guide to Overriding Parent Theme Functions in Your Child Theme
If you've had any experience working with parent and child themes in WordPress, you'll know that the template files in your child theme override those in your parent theme. For example, if your parent theme has a page.php file and you create a new one in your child theme, WordPress will use the one in the child theme when displaying pages. You might think that functions would work in the same way: create a new function in your child theme's functions.php file with the same name as one in the parent theme, and it'll take precedence. Unfortunately, it isn't as simple as this. In...