I am trying to make basic template overrides and came across this post. Why would you want to edit the functions.php in the parent theme at all? I understand changing the include path to point to the child theme. But the whole point of a child theme is so that you never edit the parent theme so it can be updated in the future without breaking your modifications. Am I missing something here?
BTW, all I want to do it edit the file sf-post-formats.php to change the read more styles….which from your explanation cannot be done without editing the parents theme’s functions.php file.
I know that my child theme is setup properly because I can override other files such as header.php just fine.
