Your functions.php doesn’t create output, so you should use locate_template(). Example: locate_template( ‘php/functions.nav-menu.php’, TRUE, TRUE ); You’ll find this function in wp-includes/theme.php. The first parameter is the file path relative to the theme root, the second tells WordPress to load it (or not), and the third to load it just once. Now a child theme … Read more
There is no hook to do this. Copy the index.php to the child theme and make the single line change. Also, tell the parent theme’s author that they should make the same change in their theme, for flexibility.
You will either need to globalize $books (if you want to stick to get_template_part() ) or use require( locate_template( ‘loop-books.php’ ) ); instead of get_template_part( ‘loop’, ‘books’ );. This issue is caused by $books in loop-books.php being defined only in the scope of get_template_part().
I prefer hooks, since they are more flexible: you can hook into them from your theme’s functions.php file, but also from plugins. I try to put as much logic in plugins, so that the themes contain mostly layout stuff. If you use an action hook, it is still possible to use get_template_part() in that hook … Read more
get_template_part is a theme function. You can’t load plugin files with that function. Take a look at the source and you will notice the work is done by locate_template. Look at that source and you will see that it always loads from theme directories. However much you may want to use get_template_part it is the … Read more
Some very good introductory answers here. Basically, get_template_part() allows theme developers to set up an order of specificity of template files. Think of it similarly to specificity as it applies to CSS selectors. When designing something, you want to start with the bare minimum of specificity, so that it can be easily overridden in parts … Read more
In fact you can, I have a folder in my theme directory called /partials/ in in that folder I have files such as latest-articles.php, latest-news.php and latest-statements.php and I load these files using get_template_part() like: get_template_part(‘partials/latest’, ‘news’); get_template_part(‘partials/latest’, ‘articles’); get_template_part(‘partials/latest’, ‘statements’); Just dont forget to omit the .php from the file name.
Like MathSmath wrote, get_template() does not support the re-use of your variables. But locate_template() infact does no inclusion at all. It just locates a file for inclusion. So you can make use of include to have this working just like you expect it: include(locate_template(‘custom-template-part.php’)); $var from your example can be used in the template part … Read more
As posts get their data set up via the_post() (respectively via setup_postdata()) and are therefore accessible through the API (get_the_ID() for e.g.), let’s assume that we are looping through a set of users (as setup_userdata() fills the global variables of the currently logged in user and isn’t useful for this task) and try to display … Read more