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I'm working with a paid theme, and we're using a child theme to display a slightly different design.

The parent theme has a file called /includes/forms/register-form.php

I'd like to customise this file, and save it in my child theme.

How do I tell Wordpress to use my child theme's version of this file, instead of my parent theme's version?

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  • How is the file loaded in the parent theme? Based on the answer to that question, your answer is either below, or "you can't".
    – Milo
    Commented Nov 27, 2013 at 6:29

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Just copy register-form.php from your parent theme and paste it under yourchildtheme/includes/forms/register-form.php , from there start changes what you want and wordpress will use that file.

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  • Are you sure? I have tried this in the past, and it has not worked for non-template files.
    – Steve
    Commented Nov 27, 2013 at 5:21
  • @Steve yes, you can try to try <?php echo "hello"; ?> in very start of new copy template and see if that gets printed.
    – localhost
    Commented Nov 27, 2013 at 5:29
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    Whether or not this works depends on how the parent theme is loading the file. This is not guaranteed to work. It really depends a lot on the theme.
    – s_ha_dum
    Commented Nov 27, 2013 at 5:39
  • That's what I though s_ha_dum. I did a search in folder for text using Notepad++, and the only mention of register-form.php in the theme folder was in themefolder\jobroller.pot, which is a language file.
    – Steve
    Commented Nov 27, 2013 at 8:19
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    It turns out @Nofel is correct!
    – Steve
    Commented Nov 27, 2013 at 8:26

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