WordPress is awesome \u2014 but the loop isn\u2019t. When you\u2019re writing a custom theme, even simple site requirements can turn your single.php file into a muck of code. Clean markup? Good luck. At Upstatement, we wanted a better way to write and maintain templates. So we built it.<\/p>\n
At Upstatement we integrated Twig (a template language like Mustache, Hogan and Handlebars) into WordPress to speed-up code, testing, and design. Designers and front-end developers can work quickly with the clarity of HTML and use variables from WordPress where they need. This dramatically simplifies and speeds-up the theme development process.<\/p>\n
Template languages are a key feature of Rails, Node and Django, but not something found in WordPress (until now). In this session, I\u2019ll walk you through how to build a theme using Timber and Twig. With this understanding, you\u2019ll be making more themes with cleaner code and less debugging.<\/p>\n
Speaker slides can be found here:\u00a0http:\/\/upstatement.github.io\/presentations\/2014\/wordcamp-stl\/#\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" WordPress is awesome \u2014 but the loop isn\u2019t. When you\u2019re writing a custom theme, even simple site requirements can turn your single.php file into a muck of code. Clean markup? Good luck. At Upstatement, we wanted a better way to … Continue reading WordPress Templates are Broken! (But we can fix them) (Intermediate)<\/span>