Low and behold I figured out something I didn’t know how to do before I figured it out. ;-0

When I first started getting into Wordpress, I just jumped in. There wasn’t a lot of thought on how to go about doing everything right, it was just the emphasis of getting things to work. When this meant creating new functions, I just added those to the existing Wordpress general_template functions list. Stupid!!! This makes upgrading a risky process, as you will probably overwrite the files you create at some point in the future.

Enter functions.php. I was reading through the Wordpress site and fell on the Functions Theme Development section. You mean all I have to do is create a file and Wordpress will do the rest? Smart, simply smart. This isn’t the first time the the foresight of the Wordpress platform has surprised me. Thanks so much for doing your thang.

Just put functions.php in your theme directory, and Wordpress will load it automagically.

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