Twig filters

General Filters #

Twig offers a variety of filters to transform text and other information into the desired output. In addition, Timber has added some valuable custom filters for your WordPress theme:

array #

Makes sure a variable is an array to safely loop over it without running into an error.

PHP

$things = 'thing';

// Or
$things = ['thing', 'thang'];

Twig

{% for thing in things|array %}
    {{ thing }}
{% endfor %}

excerpt #

Trims text to a certain number of words.

Twig

<p class="intro">{{ post.post_content|excerpt(30) }}...</p>

Output

<p class="intro">Steve-O was born in London, England. His mother,
Donna Gay (née Wauthier), was Canadian, and his father, Richard
Glover, was American. His paternal grandfather was English
and his maternal step-grandfather ...</p>

excerpt_chars #

Trims text to a certain number of characters.

Twig

<p class="intro">{{ post.post_content|excerpt_chars(124) }}...</p>

Output

<p class="intro">Steve-O was born in London, England. His mother,
Donna Gay (née Wauthier), was Canadian, and his father, Richard
Glover, was ...</p>

function #

Runs a function where you need. Really valuable for integrating plugins or existing themes.

The |function filter is deprecated. Use function() instead. You can read more about this in the Functions Guide.

Twig

{# 🚫 Don’t do this #}
<div class="entry-meta">{{ 'twenty_ten_entry_meta'|function }}</div>

{# ✅ Do this instead #}
<div class="entry-meta">{{ function('twenty_ten_entry_meta') }}</div>

Output

<div class="entry-meta">Posted on September 6, 2013</div>

relative #

Converts an absolute URL into a relative one, for example:

My custom link is <a href="{{ 'https://example.org/2015/08/my-blog-post'|relative }}">here!</a>

My custom link is <a href="/2015/08/my-blog-post">here!</a>

pretags #

Converts tags like <span> into <span>, but only inside of <pre> tags. Great for code samples when you need to preserve other formatting in the non-code sample content.

sanitize #

Converts Titles like these into titles-like-these. This is great for converting titles to use them in id attributes.

Twig

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

Output

<h1 id="my-awesome-post">My awesome post</h1>

shortcodes #

Runs text through WordPress's shortcodes filter. In this example imagine that you've added a shortcode to a custom field like [gallery id="123" size="medium"]

Twig

<section class="gallery">
    {{ post.custom_shortcode_field|shortcodes }}
</section>

Output

<section class="gallery">
Here is my gallery <div class="gallery" id="gallery-123"><img src="...." />...</div>
</section>

stripshortcodes #

Removes all shortcode tags from the given content using strip_shortcodes().

Twig

{{ post.content|stripshortcodes }}

time_ago #

Displays a date in timeago format:

Twig

<p class="entry-meta">Posted: <time>{{ post.post_date_gmt|time_ago }}</time></p>

Output

<p class="entry-meta">Posted: <time>3 days ago</time></p>

truncate #

Twig

<p class="entry-meta">{{ post.character.origin_story|truncate(8) }} ...</p>

Output

<p class="entry-meta">Bruce Wayne’s parents were shot outside the opera ...</p>

wpautop #

Adds paragraph breaks to new lines.

Twig

<div class="body">
	{{ post.meta('custom_text_area')|wpautop }}
</div>

Output

<div class="body">
	<p>Sinatra said, "What do you do?"</p>
	<p>"I'm a plumber," Ellison said.</p>
	<p>"No, no, he's not," another young man quickly yelled from across the table. "He wrote The Oscar."</p>
	<p>"Oh, yeah," Sinatra said, "well I've seen it, and it's a piece of crap."</p>
</div>

wp_list_filter #

Uses wp_list_filter().

list #

Converts an array of strings into a comma-separated list.

PHP

$context['contributors'] = [
    'Blake Allen',
    'Rachel White',
    'Maddy May',
];

Twig

Contributions made by {{ contributors|list(',', '&') }}

Output

Contributions made by Blake Allen, Rachel White & Maddy May