Trying to get my head round functions.php and am wondering how often it is loaded?
How often is functions.php loaded?
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Trying to get my head round functions.php and am wondering how often it is loaded?
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Simple answer is once. As any other PHP file otherwise it would likely cause crash because of function redefinitions.
More complex answer is there can be actually two different
functions.phploading – one for parent theme and one for child theme. Tricky part here is that child theme’s loads before the parent’s, which can at times be counter-intuitive for some purposes (like working with hooks).