Overwriting parent's theme files in Wordpress

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It seems like my Wordpress child theme in some cases refuses to use child files and still uses parent's files.

For example I want to override the themex.lesson that is located in the child_theme/framework/classes/themex.lesson.php folder

Parent's file is in the:

parent/framework/classes/themex.lesson.php folder

Changes that I make to the child_theme themex.lesson php are not reflected in live site. Other changes made to the child theme work perfectly fine. What could be causing this behavior?

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Something similar happens to me. The other files that you edit and overwrite perfectly are in the root folder or are inside of folders or nested folders? – Jabel Márquez
Files that work fine are in the root folder. – Janusz Chudzynski
It's the same problem that I've. I keep looking, if I find a solution will tell you. – Jabel Márquez
Thanks! I believe I found out why I have problems with overwriting the theme. My theme is set up to read always files from Framework folder of the paren't theme... – Janusz Chudzynski
And where you change that your theme don't read the parent's files always? – Jabel Márquez

1 Answers

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Referencing / Including Files in Your Child Theme

When you need to include files that reside within your child theme's directory structure, you will use get_stylesheet_directory(). Because the parent template's style.css is replaced by your child theme's style.css, and your style.css resides in the root of your child theme's subdirectory, get_stylesheet_directory() points to your child theme's directory (not the parent theme's directory).

Here's an example, using require_once, that shows how you can use get_stylesheet_directory when referencing a file stored within your child theme's directory structure.\

require_once( get_stylesheet_directory() . '/my_included_file.php' );

Source: https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes