When using a child theme (see http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development and http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes), you can override certain functions (those wrapped in a function_exists() call) by defining them first in your child theme's functions.php file. The child theme's functions.php file is included before the parent theme's file, so the child theme functions would be used. Functions that are not pluggable (not wrapped in function_exists()) are instead attached to a filter or action hook. The hook can be removed by using remove_action() or remove_filter() and you can attach your own function to the hook. We can remove the parent theme's hook only after it is attached, which means we need to wait until setting up the child theme....
Uh… tell me again why I’m doing this? Oh, yeah. Because I’m curious about how WordPress themes work. I don’t have to do it, and I can quit whenever I lose interest. If parts of it look too complicated, I can find an easier section, read a bit, ask some questions, and experiment to see what happens. If I make a mistake and the theme falls apart, no problem — I can just back up to where I was before and try something else. It’s an ideal way to learn.
And it’s a safe way of satisfying my curiosity. Unlike Pliny the Elder. He was interested in natural phenomena, and one story has it that on August 25, 79 — when he was across the bay from Pompeii — he saw a strange cloud coming from Mount Vesuvius and went across to investigate. It was his last great adventure.
What are you curious about? Are you as cautious as I am?
I am curious about everything. It’s my one downfall. Takes me forever to get from A to Z. Can be annoying. Though, personally, I don’t mind. I don’t think of it so much as ‘delay’ as a ‘detour’. And those detours, by Zeus, often put you on a much better (and sometimes far shorter) path.
Like you I prefer erring on the side of caution. No unnecessary physical risks for me. So if I’d been in Pliny’s shoes I’d have run the other way with any children of mine firmly clamped under my arms. However, and I suppose it’s human instinct and a good one, we will put ourselves at considerable risk to save someone else. Bred in the bone.
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I love detours, too — long meandering ones.
In fairness to Pliny it sounds as if he didn’t get out in time because a friend asked him for help.
Anyone understanding that 1st part about changing a theme, has got to be a genius.
I get caught up in changing detail, like around the house or yard–mundane things.
No, not a genius, just a person with weird tastes. 😀
i ditto bhb.
i do not have the patience. i do not like puzzles. nor mazes. well…. yes. i sort of do like mazes. but i hate ‘story problems’ in math. i couldn’t care less how train A beat train B if train A had two passengers and train B had 43. ZEUS!!! as ursula says.
i’m not sure what that says about my character. not much obviously! LOL.
i revere simplicity. and it seems that computer geeks don’t know the meaning of the word. all their little symbols and what nots. to me it’s like entering into a room so full of knicky knackys that you can’t BREATHE!!! 😀
but if you like it… that’s what counts!
bhb and i will be puttering happily around our houses.
Yes, I’ll be puttering. I haven’t been exercising my brain, just my body.
My apartment would look a lot nicer if I were in the mood to putter! Yay, Tammy and bikehikebabe!
oh my goodness. LOL.
i just came back and re~read my comment and all i have to say is . . .
WHO LET THE CAT OUT !!!! meow.
i should HOPE you know that i meant the computer geeks at wordpress my monk . . .
NOT YOU. i think of you as a genius physicist and my favorite monk!!!!
and there you came back with a sweet reply to bhb and me. just like yourself.
just like yourself. twice makes it even bigger respect! 🙂
No problem! Not tomorrow, but hopefully soon, I’ll tell you why I have so much respect for the WordPress geeks. (In general I love geeks, especially the ones that donate so much of their work.)
The only thing I am really seriously curious about is how a crossword puzzle setter’s mind works. It is really amazing how they come up with very difficult clues.
From what I’ve heard, there’s a real art to it. Andy and I don’t wonder how they create Sudokus — apparently computers can do it easily. We wonder how they classify them correctly. That would be a lot harder.