blog posts pertaining to Wordpress and Wordpress coding
(Okay before anyone objects too loudly, I know WordPress does not have an MVC architecture, and I know this example isn’t really what MVC is all about. But please bear with me.)
One of the tenants of the Model-Controller-View software architecture is that logic is separated from the views. This is not unlike separating style from content in html. In MVC, views are the files that the user interacts with.
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Now that Andrew Nacin has announced that WordPress 3.4 will allow page templates to reside in subdirectories, I am finally going to be able to organize my theme directories with headers, footers, sidebars and page templates all sitting in their own respective directory.
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The Walker class in WordPress is used to create hierarchical navigation links. It works by ‘walking’ — or iterating — over the data in the database and then outputting the results according to the parameters that have been set. The nice thing is that by using inheritance the class can be extended and manipulated in a child theme to output in a way that might be more suitable to the project at hand.
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One of the most common and tedious tasks for WordPress developers is constantly having to move files from local development to the remote server where it can be accessed online. Typically this will be some kind of staging server where online quirks can be sorted out and the client can have a look at the site before it is published. File updates, if coded correctly, will generally not cause any problem since the internal linking should all be relative. But content changes of any kind will affect the database and require the database records to be adjusted, and that is where the tedium can set it.
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