Jump-start WordPress development with Twig and Timber images, menus, and users

So far, you have learned the basic concepts of using Twig with Timber while building a modular WordPress theme. We also explored block nesting and multiple inheritance using Twig based on the DRY principle. Today, we’ll look at how to display attachment images, WordPress menus, and users in your theme using Twig with the Timber plugin.

Image in wood

Images are one of the important elements of any WordPress theme. In normal WordPress coding practice, images are integrated with PHP within normal HTML image tags. However, Timber provides a fairly comprehensive approach to handling img (image) tags that is modular and clean.

An image is attached in the thumbnail field of the post. These can be easily retrieved via Twig files via {{ post.thumbnail }}. It's that simple!

usage

Let's start with a practical example. Our single.php file looks like this:

<?php
/**
 * Single Template
 *
 * The Template for displaying all single posts.
 *
 * @since 1.0.0
 */

// Context array
$context         = Timber::get_context();
$post            = new TimberPost();
$context['post'] = $post;

// Timber ender().
Timber::render( 'single.twig', $context );

Here, for very obvious reasons, I used the TimberPost() function. It is used throughout Timber to represent posts retrieved from WordPress, making them available to Twig templates.

Since the featured image is attached to the post data, we now need to retrieve it on the frontend. Therefore, its Twig file single.twig will look like this:

{# Sinlge Template: `single.twig` #}

{% extends "base.twig" %}

{% block content %}

    <div class="single_content">

        <img  src="/static/imghw/default1.png"  data-src="https://img.php.cn/upload/article/000/465/014/169381303714882.jpg"  class="lazy" / alt="Jump-start WordPress development with Twig and Timber images, menus, and users" >

    </div>

{% endblock %}

On line 9, the code {{ post.thumbnail.src }} retrieves the post's featured (thumbnail) image and displays it as follows:

You can retrieve any number of thumbnails using this code syntax.

You can also experiment more with these images when using Timber. For example, you can also resize them by:

<img  src="/static/imghw/default1.png"  data-src="https://img.php.cn/upload/article/000/465/014/169381303849158.jpg"  class="lazy"  / alt="Jump-start WordPress development with Twig and Timber images, menus, and users" >
    

You can add new dimensions to an image by using the resize() function, where the first parameter is width and the second parameter is height . If you want to scale the image proportionally, ignore the height attribute. Now the syntax becomes:

<img  src="/static/imghw/default1.png"  data-src="https://img.php.cn/upload/article/000/465/014/169381303849158.jpg"  class="lazy" / alt="Jump-start WordPress development with Twig and Timber images, menus, and users" >

The frontend displays the same image as shown below:

If you want to explore more, try image recipes.

Use TimberImage()

Consider a scenario where a developer wants to get an image by image ID, or wants to display an external image through a URL, etc. For this extension method, Timber provides a class, TimberImage (), that represents an image retrieved from WordPress.

usage

Let’s take the single.php file as an example. It now looks like this:

<?php
/**
 * Single Template
 *
 * The Template for displaying all single posts.
 *
 * @since 1.0.0
 */

// Context array
$context         = Timber::get_context();
$post            = new TimberPost();
$context['post'] = $post;

// Using the TimberImage() function 
// to retrieve the image via its ID i.e 8
$context['custom_img'] = new TimberImage( 8 );

// Timber ender().
Timber::render( 'single.twig', $context );

This time, I use the TimberImage() class which takes the image ID 8 as its parameter. The rest of the encoding routine is the same. Let's retrieve this image via the Twig file single.twig.

<img  src="/static/imghw/default1.png"  data-src="https://img.php.cn/upload/article/000/465/014/169381303714882.jpg"  class="lazy" / alt="Jump-start WordPress development with Twig and Timber images, menus, and users" >

The value stored in the $context custom_img element, i.e. {{ custom_img }}, will retrieve the image by its ID to display on the frontend as follows:

To retrieve an image via external URL replacement, you can follow the following syntax.

<?php $context[ 'img' ] = new TimberImage( 'https://domain.com/link/image.jpg' ); ?>

This time, instead of the image ID, the frontend displays the external image URL, as shown below:

To explore more capabilities of this feature, you can check out the documentation.

Wood Menu

Now, how would you render a WordPress menu using Twig templates? This is a tricky thing. But hang in there! Timber provides you with the TimberMenu() class that helps you render a WordPress menu inside a Twig file as a complete loop. Let's take a look.

usage

The whole concept of retrieving menu items revolves around menu objects. There are two ways to define its context. The first is to make the menu object available on every page by adding the menu object to the global get_context() function, just like I did in the functions.php file. Secondly, you can add a specific menu by ID for a specific PHP template.

无论采用哪种方法，一旦菜单可供 Timber $context 数组使用，您就可以从中检索所有菜单项。但我更喜欢在全球范围内定义它。因此，转到 functions.php 文件并粘贴以下代码：

<?php
/**
 * Custom Context
 *
 * Context data for Timber::get_context() function.
 *
 * @since 1.0.0
 */
function add_to_context( $data ) {
    $data['foo'] = 'bar';
	$data['stuff'] = 'I am a value set in your functions.php file';
	$data['notes'] = 'These values are available everytime you call Timber::get_context();';
	$data['menu'] = new TimberMenu();
	return $data;
}
add_filter( 'timber_context', 'add_to_context' );

因此，我在这里定义了一个自定义函数调用 add_to_context。在这个函数内部有一些数据，我希望通过 get_context() 函数在每个 PHP 模板中都可以使用这些数据。在第 13 行，您可以找到 TimberMenu() 的实例，该实例针对 $data 数组中的元素菜单传递。

这将使 Twig 模板可以使用标准 WordPress 菜单作为我们可以循环访问的对象。 TimberMenu() 函数可以采用菜单项或 ID 等参数。

让我们创建一个名为 menu.twig 文件的 Twig 模板。

{# Menu Template: `menu.twig` #}

<nav>
    <ul class="main-nav">
        {% for item in menu.get_items %}
                <li class="nav-main-item {{ item.classes | join(' ') }}">
                    <a class="nav-main-link" href="{{ item.get_link }}">{{ item.title }}</a>
                </li>
        {% endfor %}
    </ul>
</nav>

上面的代码在此 Twig 模板内运行一个循环。第 5 行为每个菜单项运行 for 循环，并在无序列表中显示每个菜单 item 的标题。循环运行，直到 menu 对象的所有键值对都被迭代并列出在前端。

我继续将 menu.twig 模板包含在第 11 行的 base.twig 模板中。

{# Base Template: `base.twig` #}

{% block html_head_container %}

    {% include 'header.twig' %}

{% endblock %}

	<body class="{{body_class}}">

		{% include "menu.twig" %}

		<div class="wrapper">

			{% block content %}

			    <!-- Add your main content here. -->
			    <p>SORRY! No content found!</p>

			{% endblock %}

		</div>
		<!-- /.wrapper -->

	{% include "footer.twig" %}

	</body>

</html>

让我们预览一下我的演示网站的后端（外观 > 菜单），其中菜单包含两个父项和一个子项。

所以，让我们看一下帖子页面 - 因为我们的 single.twig 扩展了 base.twig，我们的菜单将自动出现在该页面上。

您可以看到，在我们单个帖子的顶部有一个菜单，其中包含两个父项。

子菜单项怎么样？让我们更新 menu.twig 文件以也包含子项目。

{# Menu Template: `menu.twig` #}

<nav>
    <ul class="main-nav">
        {% for item in menu.get_items %}
                <li class="nav-main-item {{ item.classes | join(' ') }}">
                    <a class="nav-main-link" href="{{ item.get_link }}">{{ item.title }}</a>

						{% if item.get_children %}

							<ul class="nav-drop">

								{% for child in item.get_children %}

								<li class="nav-drop-item">
									<a href="{{ child.get_link }}">{{ child.title }}</a>
								</li>

								{% endfor %}

							</ul>

						{% endif %}

                </li>
        {% endfor %}
    </ul>
</nav>

第 9 行到第 23 行打印子菜单项（如果有）。这次，前端显示我们第一个父项的子项。

有关 TimberMenu() 的更多详细信息，请查看文档。

Timber 中的用户

可以使用 TimberUser() 类从 WordPress 数据库检索用户。该类采用用户 ID 或 slug 作为参数来检索用户。

由于用户或博客作者与 WP 帖子相关联，我将使用 single.php 的代码，现在如下所示：

<?php
/**
 * Single Template
 *
 * The Template for displaying all single posts.
 *
 * @since 1.0.0
 */

// Context array
$context         = Timber::get_context();
$post            = new TimberPost();
$context['post'] = $post;

// Using the TimberImage() function
// to retrieve the image via its ID i.e 8
$context['custom_img'] = new TimberImage( 8 );

// Get the user object.
$context['user'] = new TimberUser();

// Timber ender().
Timber::render( 'single.twig', $context );

第 20 行初始化 TimberUser() 类并分配给上下文对象元素，即 user。让我们通过 Twig 模板显示作者姓名。

我的 single.twig 模板在第 #21 行末尾有一行新代码。

{# Sinlge Template: `single.twig` #}

{% extends "base.twig" %}

{% block content %}

    <div class="single_content">

        <img  src="/static/imghw/default1.png"  data-src="https://img.php.cn/upload/article/000/465/014/169381303929063.png"  class="lazy" / alt="Jump-start WordPress development with Twig and Timber images, menus, and users" >

    	{# <img  src="/static/imghw/default1.png"  data-src="https://img.php.cn/upload/article/000/465/014/169381303929063.png"  class="lazy" / alt="Jump-start WordPress development with Twig and Timber images, menus, and users" > #}

    	{# <img  src="/static/imghw/default1.png"  data-src="https://img.php.cn/upload/article/000/465/014/169381303929063.png"  class="lazy" / alt="Jump-start WordPress development with Twig and Timber images, menus, and users" > #}

    	{# <img  src="/static/imghw/default1.png"  data-src="https://img.php.cn/upload/article/000/465/014/169381303929063.png"  class="lazy" / alt="Jump-start WordPress development with Twig and Timber images, menus, and users" > #}

        <h1 id="post-title">{{ post.title }}</h1>

        <p>{{ post.get_content }}</p>

        <p>Author: {{ user }} </p>
    </div>

{% endblock %}

代码获取当前帖子的作者姓名并将其显示在前端。您可以使用 {{ 用户 | print_r }} 查看 TimberUser 对象中还有什么可用的。

要了解有关此类的更多信息，请参阅文档。您可以在 ImagesMenusUsers 分支的 GitHub 存储库中找到本教程的代码。

结论

本文总结了整个系列。在这四篇文章中，我探索了如何使用 Timber 将 Twig 模板语言集成到 WordPress 主题中。

本系列的最终存储库可以在 GitHub 上找到，其中包含特定于教程的分支：

• 教程 #2：入门
• 教程 #3：WordPress 备忘单
• 教程 #4：TimberImages、TimberMenu 和 TimberUser

您可以查阅 Timber 的在线文档了解更多信息。

完成整个系列并实现所有解释的示例，我打赌您会喜欢 Twig。在下面的评论框中发表您的疑问。您也可以通过 Twitter 联系我。

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