Proposal for a new functions file to add and manage custom hooks.

[adhun]

Even being a hardcore WordPress developer, we all have had to use one of those free or premium theme to make some websites quick and hassle-free. In most cases, we place our custom patches/hooks on our theme's functions.php in order to achieve the site-specific requirements. That’s literally modifying a theme file. It will get replaced when the theme is updated. I think there should be a better way to handle this. Introducing a global custom-functions file that's independent of themes and plugins would fix the issue. I would really love your thoughts on this.

[swissspidy]

I think there should be a better way to handle this.

Have you tried using a child theme? That's what they were built for.

Introducing a global custom-functions file that's independent of themes and plugins would fix the issue.

Well, there's ​my-hacks.php (please don't use that one though!)

[jadpm]

Introducing a global custom-functions file that's independent of themes and plugins would fix the issue.

I would say that mu plugins are the very definition of that?

[johnbillion]

Thanks for the ticket, @adhun. This is precisely why child themes were introduced, so you can take a theme and use it as a parent theme and then place your customisations into a child theme.

[adhun]

Thanks all for the valuable suggestions.