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How to Edit the WordPress Functions File

WordPress offers the flexibility with customising your current theme to your own individual preference. You can customise the functionality, features and design of the theme you are using by adding code snippets into the WordPress functions file, called functions.php. To customise the look and feel of your WordPress website, you will need to edit the style.css file. For more information see our tutorial How to Edit the WordPress style.css File.

The primary purpose of the functions.php file offered by WordPress is to enable different functions in your theme. You can customise any WordPress theme by adding the required code snippet to this file. It offers you the flexibility of adding favicon to your website, changing thumbnail images sizes, customising the dashboard logo, enabling threaded comments, customising footer area, etc. You can edit the functions.php file by either using an FTP client or directly through the WordPress dashboard. You can also add code snippets to your WordPress website using the Code Snippets plugin available from the WordPress repository.

Edit Using an FTP client

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Edit Using the WordPress Dashboard

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Edit Using the Code Snippets Plugin

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Gilberto Van Roosen
Gilberto Van Roosen

Gilberto Van Roosen is the current editor-in-chief at WPSnip and leads a team of dedicated WordPress experts. He's an entrepreneur, online marketer, and professional blogger from London, United Kingdom. Gilberto found WordPress when he needed a website for his first business and instantly fell in love. When not building websites, creating content or helping his clients improve their online business, he can most often be found at the gym, or traveling the world with his wife and family.

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