My Child theme not overriding a non-template file WordPress

Reigel Gallarde answers:

I don't understand this line:
"I recreated the same folder structure and included the path in child's theme functions.php"

did you mean you created also the same file and call it in functions.php?
if so, the fact that a child theme’s functions.php is loaded first than of the parent, this will not work. The function in the parent theme will override your $GLOBALS[ 'listify_job_manager_tags' ].

what you could do is override that function after the parent theme functions.php runs. But how could we do that if child runs first and our code is in the child? luckily we have after_setup_theme where we could hook our function.

add_action( 'after_setup_theme', function() {
//Do something
}, 42 );

next question now is how we could overwrite the function we want.
based on current code, my best guess (not tried, but might work) is:

class My_Listify_WP_Job_Manager_Tags extends Listify_WP_Job_Manager_Tags {

public function __construct() {
parent::__construct();
}

public function job_filter_tag_cloud( $atts ) {
$atts[ 'separator' ] = '';
$atts[ 'orderby' ] = 'name';
$atts[ 'order' ] = 'ASC';

return $atts;
}

}

$GLOBALS[ 'listify_job_manager_tags' ] = new My_Listify_WP_Job_Manager_Tags();

this code assumes that Listify_WP_Job_Manager_Tags class exists and we are to overwrite function job_filter_tag_cloud.

whole code would be

add_action( 'after_setup_theme', function() {
class My_Listify_WP_Job_Manager_Tags extends Listify_WP_Job_Manager_Tags {

public function __construct() {
parent::__construct();
}

public function job_filter_tag_cloud( $atts ) {
$atts[ 'separator' ] = '';
$atts[ 'orderby' ] = 'name';
$atts[ 'order' ] = 'ASC';

return $atts;
}

}

$GLOBALS[ 'listify_job_manager_tags' ] = new My_Listify_WP_Job_Manager_Tags();
}, 42 );

paste this in your child theme's functions.php
let me know if you have problem with this..

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