Child Theme and sf-header.php

[Pothe]

Hi,
I want to put the contact header feature next to the shopping cart for header option 2.

I know this is outside theme support so any tips would be great:

Do I add the file sf-header.php to the child theme with just the lines I want to edit?

Thanks

[Swift Ideas – Ed]

Hi Andrew,

No – that only works with template files, not files which contain functions.

What you’d want to do is copy down the sf_header() function to your child theme, then make your edits there. That function will then be used ahead of the parent theme function.

Hope that helps.

– Ed

[Pothe]

Hi Ed,
Thanks for the help on this.
Do you mean I need to copy the entire sf_header.php file to the child theme function.php or add the sf_header.php to the child theme directory?

[Kyle – SUPPORT]

Basically, you need to open sf-header.php, go to line 161 and copy the whole function starting with:

if (!function_exists('sf_header')) {

right down to line 385. Then paste this in your child theme’s functions.php file

– Kyle