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Timber

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Cheatsheet

Here are some helpful conversions for functions you’re probably well familiar with in WordPress and their Timber equivalents. These assume a PHP file with the Timber::context(); function at the top. For example:

$context = Timber::context();
$context['post'] = new Timber\Post();
Timber::render( 'single.twig', $context );

Blog Info #

  • blog_info('charset') => {{ site.charset }}
  • blog_info('description') => {{ site.description }}
  • blog_info('sitename') => {{ site.name }}
  • blog_info('url') => {{ site.url }}

Body Class #

  • implode(' ', get_body_class()) => <body class="{{ body_class }}">

Post #

  • the_content() => {{ post.content }}
  • the_permalink() => {{ post.link }}
  • the_title() => {{ post.title }}
  • get_the_tags() => {{ post.tags }}

Theme #

  • get_template_directory_uri() => {{ theme.link }} (Parent Themes)
  • get_template_directory_uri() => {{ theme.parent.link }} (Child Themes)
  • get_stylesheet_directory_uri() => {{ theme.link }}
  • get_template_directory() => {{ theme.parent.path }}
  • get_stylesheet_directory() => {{ theme.path }}

In WordPress parlance, stylesheet_directory = child theme, template directory = parent theme. Both WP and Timber functions safely return the current theme info if there's no parent/child going on.