Prefer editing templates over functions.php?

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   Justin Tadlock (Administrator)
   Posted 7 months ago | Permalink

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   eddiejanzer (Member)
   Posted 7 months ago | Permalink

   this is very cool for me Justin. Always learning new stuff from you. Very useful.

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   Kyle D (Member)
   Posted 7 months ago | Permalink

   I tend to break my functions.php up whenever it gets too unwieldly. If I'm making a bunch of changes to the singular content areas I'll have a file called functions_singular.php and then include that from functions.php.

   I should check some of my code though, and see if I can get away with only including it on pages that are required - I have a feeling I may not be doing that.

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   eddiejanzer (Member)
   Posted 7 months ago | Permalink

   Justin, could you give a simple example of a template file used here (misc-chunk.php), and, can php be added?

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   Justin Tadlock (Administrator)
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   Thomas Clausen (Member)
   Posted 7 months ago | Permalink

   Man I think that it can save me from a lot of questions here in the forums :-) It seems like an easy way to hook stuff into my sites.

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   designOdyssey (Member)
   Posted 7 months ago | Permalink

   Thanks for this. This is the single most confusing when coming from the 'old' way of coding to wordpress and functions.php. From this it seems we just use the locate_template as an include. And, doing it this way, we can add the conditional code to make sure we're not loading it everywhere. With this add_action and add_filter everywhere else, it seems the remaining challenge is just keeping all the mods organized so we know what is changing what.

   Thanks.

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   designOdyssey (Member)
   Posted 7 months ago | Permalink

   I'm thinking of using this technique for getting Buddypress functionality into Hybrid - essentially stripping the functionality out of BP themes, creating a php file with the code and then using this technique to load it where appropriate. Assuming I also load the necessary css/js, should this work?

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   scottopolis (Member)
   Posted 7 months ago | Permalink

   Justin, this is great. Can you please tell me what I would have to add to limit the display of the "misc-chunk.php" to just one page?

   Thanks

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    Justin Tadlock (Administrator)
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    designOdyssey (Member)
    Posted 7 months ago | Permalink

    Whoa!! Took a good look under the hood of BP1.2 and this is indeed going to be challenging. Don't this idea will help too much. I will post my ideas on the BP-specific thread.

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    Joel (Member)
    Posted 6 months ago | Permalink

    Does this method have any advantage over using a simple include and wrapping in a standard WP conditional function? It looks like it might combine the hook and include a bit more neatly, but you wouldn't be able reuse the code without stuffing your functions.php file full of these things., which would again, be redundant.

    With an include I'm able to nest the code chunks into folders and make things even cleaner. With this function, it just looks like WP searches first within the child theme folder for a template with the same name as the file in the parent theme folder. However, in your use case. it seems that this is simply behaving the same as an include.

    Does this add cause WP to recognize the custom template so that you can select it from the drop-down box on the "Write Post/Page" screen? I'm a bit confused, but am probably just missing the point. Must retire now.

    Thanks in advance.

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    Justin Tadlock (Administrator)
    Posted 6 months ago | Permalink

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    Thomas Clausen (Member)
    Posted 3 weeks ago | Permalink

    What if I want to put all these php files into a separate folder, so when updating they don't get deleted (I know I could put this in the child theme folder, but let's say I just wanted to keep that folder intact (apart from the lines of code I had added to functions.php))?

    Say I would like them to be in wp-content/custom-code

    And are there any disadvantages to this?

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    Rarst (Member)
    Posted 3 weeks ago | Permalink

    Template-related functions in WordPress are more complex than straight include. They know distinction between child and parent theme, will try parent if template not found in child, etc.

    Basically disadvantage is throwing all that out of the window. There is no reason to in context of WP. And outside of that (like including some very unrelated code) it's specifics that matter.

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    Justin Tadlock (Administrator)
    Posted 3 weeks ago | Permalink

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