I'd like to add a note to this discussion. Using 'function_exists' has been common practice for quite some time, and I always thought its main purpose was for child themes. Making a filter work is really much more difficult. Almost anyone with
even a slight idea of how PHP works can copy the original function to a
child's functions.php, make a few wording, or even simple logic changes,
to the function, and make the child work how they want. While this kind of rote programming may not be best practice, I'm sure
there are thousands of small child themes that use this practice.<br><br>I think there are too many existing child themes dependent on 'function_exists' to ever disallow that, at least for existing themes.<br><br>
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<div>Most functions being pluggable, i.e. function_exists (if that’s what you’re
referring to) is actually a good idea.</div>
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<div>This allows those functions to be re-written if necessary in the
functions.php of the child theme.</div>
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<div>I would consider this best practice.</div><a href="http://lists.wordpress.org/mailman/listinfo/theme-reviewers" target="_blank">e-reviewers</a><br></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></blockquote>
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